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The increase in average global temperatures is the product of climate change. The main contributors to this negative growth are natural disasters, along with human activities that are projected to result in higher average global temperatures (Figure 1.2). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) concluded that climate change has arisen as a result of human activities that have enabled global warming (Myles et al. 2009; Lacis 2012) and the most plausible reason for this is the widespread use of fossil fuels that produce significant greenhouse gas emissions, including methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2). In addition, climate change would do substantial harm to the productive system. The individual discussion of the energy and environmental crisis is also not feasible since it is directly related to it.

Figure 1.2 The earth is heating up. Monthly divergence from average temperature calculated for 1980–2015 in selected years.

Source: NASA (2015). Licensed under CC BY ND 3.0.v.