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Thermal Retention
The atmosphere preserves the heat temperature on earth. Without it heat will increase because of the sun's infrared rays that cause what is called "thermal retention". Gases emitted from the earth's surface work on preserving the heat, which will lead to the continuous increase of heat. Some of these gases are natural, like water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and nitric oxide, and some of them are chemical gases, like chlorine, fluorine and carbon. The increase of earth's temperature will lead to a lot of harm in all fields, like:
Water: Earth will face an extreme water shortage and many areas will suffer from dryness and desertation. While rain water will increase in other areas unexpectedly and the huge icebergs will melt leading to dangerous floods even in areas that haven't witnessed floods before.
The environmental system: Many environmental systems will change, as icebergs will melt leading to floods and forest fires will increase leading to the reduction in forest areas, which will make the environment produce more carbon causing climate change and leading to the extinction of more than 30% of life forms on earth.
Food: Scientists think that the increase of temperature will lead to the increase of the crop production rates, but the continuous increase of heat will then lead to the decrease of agrarian crops. Consequently and with the increasing numbers of the world population, this will lead to worldwide hunger waves.
Beaches and coasts: Coastal beaches will face many dangers because of the increasing heat, as it will lead to increasing the sea levels, which will corrode the beaches. This will make millions of people living in coastal cities leave their homes, while small islands will be completely covered by water.
Public health: The increasing heat will endanger the health and lives of millions of people especially children and small babies because of the heat waves, climate change and lack of food and water resources. It will also lead to the spread of dangerous diseases, like malaria, but of course it will decrease infections with cold diseases.
Some of the things that can help us face thermal retention is to reduce the production of harmful gases by expanding green and agricultural areas and stopping all pollution sources, like cement, metal and fertilizer factories, electricity stations and coal mines by planting large areas of forests, produce cars that are friendly to the environment, depend on renewable sources of power, like solar and wind power and recycle whatever can be recycled to reuse it again in order to guarantee a better and safer future for the world.