09 March 2009

Forest City Versus Global Warming

Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans. Increasing global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, likely including an expanse of the subtropical desert regions. Other likely effects include Arctic shrinkage and resulting Arctic methane release, shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, changes in agricultural yields, modifications of trade routes, glacier retreat, species extinctions and changes in the ranges of disease vectors.
Political and public debate continues regarding the appropriate response to global warming. The available options are mitigation to reduce further emissions; adaptation to reduce the damage caused by warming; and, more speculatively, geoengineering to reverse global warming. Most national governments have signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Human activity in the big city since the industrial revolution has increased the atmospheric concentration of various greenhouse gases, leading to increased radiative forcing from CO2, methane, tropospheric ozone, CFCs and nitrous oxide.
The atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and methane have increased by 36% and 148% respectively since the beginning of the industrial revolution in the mid-1700s. These levels are considerably higher than at any time during the last 650,000 years, the period for which reliable data has been extracted from ice cores. Less direct geological evidence indicates that CO2 values this high were last seen approximately 20 million years ago. Fossil fuel burning has produced approximately three-quarters of the increase in CO2 from human activity over the past 20 years. Most of the rest is due to land-use change, in particular deforestation.
Forest City give benefits for conservation of city environment. Forest City very needed for all of city residents. Humans in their habitat at the city sure will find benefits if their city have forest city. The benefits that can be perceived by the humans from the development of forest city are:
Aesthetic benefits:
Green color and varied shape of leaves including composition crown shape joined together become to a certain beautiful panorama and refresh.
Hydrologic benefits:
The structure of plants root capable to absorp water surplus if rainfall so that is not flow wasted but able to absorbed by the soil.
Climate benefits:
Healthy and normal climate is important for humans living harmony. Greenhouse effect will be reduced with lot of plants in some districts. Moreover, the fact is that plant will add the environment coolness and pleasantness.
Ecological benefits:
The environment harmony not just good for animals, plants, or humans. The existence creature in this nature having reliance each other. When one of them extinct so another creture”s life will disturbed.
Protective benefits:
Trees able to become protector from very hot sun light, a surprise attack strong wind, and noise reduction agent from loud noise.
Hygienic benefits:
With the existance of trees, pollution danger able to decreased because the leaves from trees able to filter dust and to sip dust in atmosphere. Even plants able to produce oxygen that very needed for humans.

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