AMU Prof. Saleha Jamal: Climate Change Poses Grave Threat to Humanity

• AMU professor Saleha Jamal warns that global warming and climate change pose a significant threat to humanity, impacting human life, environment, and economy.
• Global warming is the continuous increase in Earth's average temperature (already up by ~1.5°C), while climate change is a broader concept including disruptions in rainfall and extreme weather events.
• The primary cause of global warming is increased greenhouse gases (CO2, methane) due to industrialization, urbanization, and deforestation.
• Impacts include melting glaciers, rising sea levels, floods, droughts, and severe disruption to agriculture.
• International efforts (COP, Paris Agreement) aim to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C, with India playing a key role through its net-zero target and renewable energy expansion.

Why It Matters: Climate change threatens humanity, demanding urgent individual and global action.