Climatic Changes

Waste Heat and Waste Gases can lead to a change in the microclimate and the global climate. One particular problem associated with industrial activities which has arisen over recent years in the increase in Greenhoue Gases such as Carbon Dioxide (proportion in synthetically created Greenhouse Effect approximate 50 %, further greenhouse gases and their proportions: Chlorofluorocarbons 20 %, Methane 15 %, Ozone 10 %, Nitrous Oxide 5 %) in the Atmosphere.

From model calculations it follows that a doubling of the Carbon Dioxide content of the Atmosphere (which could be reached in about 100 years if the present rate of increase were to continue) would raise the mean global temperature between 1.5 and 4 °C. The explanation for this can be found in the optical characteristics of the Greenhoue Gases, which permit the rays from the sun to pass almost unhindered, but which absorb the heat reflects from the earth. The resulting heating close to the ground can lead to a reduction in the area covered by the Arctic sea-ice, and thus to a lowering of the of the equator-pole temperature drop. This in turn would result in world-wide climatic changes, such as a reduction in the monsoon rains and a increase in droughts. It is also not possible to rule out a rise in the level of the sea, with devasting consequences for the costal regions.