Climate Change and Its Impact on Agriculture
Climate Change and its Impact on Agriculture
Climate change is an emerging issue of agricultural production and geographical location of India makes it vulnerable to climate change. For most people, the expression “climate change” means the alteration of the world’s climate that we humans are causing, through fossil fuel burning, clearing forests and other practices that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. However, scientists often use the term for any change in the climate, whether arising naturally or from human causes.
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate change is the change that can be attributed “directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods”.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “climate change” as “a change in the state of the climate that can be identified ... by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer”. Each of these two definitions is relevant and important to keep in mind.
Climate change is basically due to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide through anthropogenic activities. These gases trap the sunlight and increase the earth’s overall temperature. The gases responsible for the global warming are known as Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), which are comprised of Carbon Dioxide CO2, Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs, Methane CH4, Nitrous Oxide N2O and water vapors. These gases are produced by a number of anthropogenic activities. CO2 is mainly produced during the combustion of wastes, carbon, wood and fossil fuels. Chlorofluorocarbons are used for refrigeration, aerosol propellant and for insulation and it have 10000 to 15000 times greater potential
Climate change is an emerging issue of agricultural production and geographical location of India makes it vulnerable to climate change. For most people, the expression “climate change” means the alteration of the world’s climate that we humans are causing, through fossil fuel burning, clearing forests and other practices that increase the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. However, scientists often use the term for any change in the climate, whether arising naturally or from human causes.
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate change is the change that can be attributed “directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods”.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “climate change” as “a change in the state of the climate that can be identified ... by changes in the mean and / or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer”. Each of these two definitions is relevant and important to keep in mind.
Climate change is basically due to the increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide through anthropogenic activities. These gases trap the sunlight and increase the earth’s overall temperature. The gases responsible for the global warming are known as Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), which are comprised of Carbon Dioxide CO2, Chlorofluorocarbons CFCs, Methane CH4, Nitrous Oxide N2O and water vapors. These gases are produced by a number of anthropogenic activities. CO2 is mainly produced during the combustion of wastes, carbon, wood and fossil fuels. Chlorofluorocarbons are used for refrigeration, aerosol propellant and for insulation and it have 10000 to 15000 times greater potential