Deforestation and Physics:
With forests disappearing at almost 11,000,000 hectares a year, deforestation has a severe impact on the physics of the world. Global warming, which is the gradual increase of global temperatures, is the leading factor in the field of physics that is associated with deforestation. Deforestation decreases the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. This is due to the lack of oxygen released by plants in their respiratory processes within the cells during photosynthesis. Other gasses such as carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, fill the spot of the depleting oxygen. As more oxygen gets used in cellular respiration in animals carbon dioxide is released increasing the greenhouse gas effect in the atmosphere. These gasses store energy from the sun, in which they do not allow this energy to leave the planet. When these gasses trap this energy over time, the overall energy of the planet increases. Temperature shows this because temperature is a measure of the overall energy in an area. When this temperature increases it affects the entire planet.
With forests disappearing at almost 11,000,000 hectares a year, deforestation has a severe impact on the physics of the world. Global warming, which is the gradual increase of global temperatures, is the leading factor in the field of physics that is associated with deforestation. Deforestation decreases the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. This is due to the lack of oxygen released by plants in their respiratory processes within the cells during photosynthesis. Other gasses such as carbon dioxide, which is a greenhouse gas, fill the spot of the depleting oxygen. As more oxygen gets used in cellular respiration in animals carbon dioxide is released increasing the greenhouse gas effect in the atmosphere. These gasses store energy from the sun, in which they do not allow this energy to leave the planet. When these gasses trap this energy over time, the overall energy of the planet increases. Temperature shows this because temperature is a measure of the overall energy in an area. When this temperature increases it affects the entire planet.
One major issue is the melting of the glaciers around the pole regions of the planet. These regions are experiencing a rate of liquidation that is steadily increasing at an alarming rate and causing regions such as the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf to break off into the ocean. Another increasing problem is the rate of evaporation. This rate caused by global warming has a serious impact on the amount of precipitation around the world. An increase in precipitation not only causes more flooding, but it can also create larger storm surges and overall change the natural climate in an area. Especially on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where hurricanes are prominent, rising temperatures of the water can create massive problems for the populations on this coast because hurricanes generate much stronger and sustained winds when passing through warm waters.