Climate change is the biggest threat we face and if we don’t tackle it, the consequences are grim. Team green is all set to accept this reality and fight against this global disaster. The three most important things we can do is to stop the main activities that cause air pollution, enhance our resilience to its effects and voice about it to the maximum. We as a non profit organization focusing to promote the movement of green revolution is concentrating on these three vital factors to tackle climate change. Climate change is something to see how serious people are about it and it's so sad to see how most people react. It’s a bit like sustainable development in which many people quietly glaze over and don’t care. But please don’t neglect it because the consequences are so serious beyond words. Climate change isn’t just words but it's a real fact and man made climate change resulting from air pollution caused mainly by the poisonous emissions of fuel powered vehicles and coal firing power generation is really a very scary thing. Adding to the drastic effects of climate change, it causes volcanic eruptions and dust storms where the sand dust storms are particularly concerning.

The real truth is that climate change is not only causing global warming but it is quickly speeding up. The 20 warmest years on record have all come out of the previous 2 decades. Last 10 years were the warmest years in this decade, which is recorded as the hottest years and it has grown hotter to such an extent that even the icebergs started melting in the arctic ocean. The year 2020 has recorded the hottest days and this should be treated as a warning that air pollution is rising beyond the most dangerous levels. Millions of people are already losing their precious lives due to air pollution disasters and if the air gets polluted further, the number of deaths will also increase considerably.

Climate change is the product of air pollution which describes a change in the average conditions such as temperature and rainfall in a region over a long period of time. For example thousands of years ago much of the United States was covered in glaciers but today there is a warmer climate and fewer glaciers. Global climate change refers to the average long term changes over the entire earth which include warming temperatures and changes in precipitation, as well as the effects of earth’s warming. Scientists have observed earth’s surface is warming and many of the warmest years on record have happened in the past 20 years and this is basically due to the rise of air pollution day by day.

Some parts of earth are warming faster than others but on an average, global air temperatures near earth's surface have gone up about 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the past 100 years. In fact, the past five years have been the warmest five years in centuries. Many people, including scientists, are concerned about this warming because when earth’s climate continues to be warm, the intensity and amount of rainfall during storms such as hurricanes is expected to increase. Droughts and heat waves are also expected to become more intense as the climate warms. When the whole earth’s temperature changes by one or two degrees, that change can have big impacts on the earth as a whole and the most affected will naturally be the health of human life, plants and even animals too.

When human activities create greenhouse gases, naturally the earth warms. This matters because oceans, land, air, plants, animals and energy from the sun all have an effect on one another. The combined effects of all these things give us our global climate. In other words, the earth's climate functions like one big connected system. Thinking about things as systems means looking for how every part relates to others. Earth observing satellites collect information about how our planet’s atmosphere, water and land are changing. Scientists can observe how earth’s systems work together. This will help us understand how small changes in one place can contribute to bigger changes in earth’s global climate. In such a situation, you can imagine the huge difference, air pollution is creating and adversely affecting each and every minute system of our universe which is all connected together.

If we don’t tackle climate change at the earliest, most harmful things will happen. Global warming is another of those deceptive phrases which doesn’t sound that threatening. Our generation doesn’t identify seriously about what will actually happen as the globe warms. So let's not waste time again and wait for these disasters to happen and Team Green is fully committed for contributing its maximum in all possible ways to reduce air pollution which is the basic cause of all these disasters because the consequences of the same are terribly dangerous.

More frequent extreme flooding and coastal erosion are caused by those wetter winters, heavier rain, stronger storms and rising sea levels which threaten all of us, because floods destroy lives, livelihoods and communities. More water shortages and higher drought are caused by the hotter drier summers and less predictable rainfall which could cause deep damage to our economy and our environment. More frequent fires and extreme wildfires, such as we saw Australian bush fires with terrible human loss, are also due to climate changes. More air and water pollution arises due to those longer, hotter summers that will threaten the living world of plants, animals, our wider environment and our own health. Climate change resulting from air pollution is something we cannot express ourselves in terms of its extent on disaster levels and Team green has this serious concern which will reflect in our activities.

The environment agencies have spent millions of pounds for improving and maintaining sea walls and other coastal defenses due the fear of air pollution resulting in severe climate changes. In 2013 there was a bigger east coast storm surge than one sixty years previously and nobody died but as sea levels rise and the storms get fiercer, how much higher can we build the walls around our coasts, the better. There’s a limit to what’s practical and even if we build ever higher and stronger defenses along the coastline, there’s another problem for our rivers which get flooded within no time. So the best alternative is to reduce air pollution to the maximum and thereby save the universe from the effects of air pollution.

We could have a real nightmare for the future when the high seas overwhelm our sea defenses and secondly where the rivers flood the land behind the defenses and a third one which is the worst of all are both of these things happen together. The result is, if we fail to address these future risks most seriously, there will be many low lying parts of the country either permanently waterlogged or flooded with such frequency .

To avoid the fear and grief there is an element of underplaying the risk which happens out of climate changes. A report from an international team of climate researchers which hit the headlines warned of a greenhouse effect. This is the risk that without intervention we could cross a threshold leading to runaway climate change with sea level rise up to 60m. That wouldn’t just make some major threatening cities like Dubai and New York under water but it would make most of the earth uninhabitable. That is why climate change is simply the biggest threat out there to our economy, environment, health, life, way of life, our country, our continent, our world, and our future. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be like this. We can tackle this problem, if we act soon because some of the effects of climate change such as rise in temperatures, sea levels rising, wetter winters, and more violent weather can be prevented by reducing air pollution at the earliest. What we need to do is summed up by two words, mitigation and adaptation.

Adaptation means making changes for preparing and reducing the effects of climate change. For example by building stronger sea defenses to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities due to possible rise in sea level, provide subsidies to buy electric vehicles, incentives for solar roofing projects and so on. Other things we can and should be doing now include reducing water usage by cutting leakage, extending domestic metering, avoiding any unnecessary development in floodplains or on fast eroding coastlines, designing infrastructure that will be resilient to the more extreme weather, establishing maximum electric vehicle charging stations etc. The concerned government should take all possible action to mitigate climate change, by continuing to cut greenhouse gas emissions, for reducing the impact of climate change and to ensure that all government policies and investment decisions take it into account. There should be sudden actions that the government should take over the next five years with millions of new electric vehicles and thousands of hydrogen powered container ships, solar power plants etc. to help the country adapt to climate change. We should continue to aim for keeping the global temperature rise below 2° C. Our resilience will only be robust if we prepare for worse scenarios and plans that should take a proactive approach for mitigating and adapting to climate change, taking into account the long term implications for flood risk, coastal change, water supply, biodiversity and the risk of overheating from rising temperatures resulting from air pollution.