Climatology & Weather Forecasting -peer-review-journals

Climatology & Weather Forecasting -peer-review-journals

Currently, fossil fuel burning worldwide alone account for

the release of about 6 million tons of carbon per year while

deforestation and land clearance account for another 1 billion

tones [6-13]. With respect to the contribution of individual

countries to the emission of greenhouse gases, United State

Environmental Protection Agency study estimated that in 1989 the

United States of America which contains only 5% of the world’s

population contributed the highest amount of 21%, followed by

the Soviet Union to the European Economic Community [14-16].

The culpable culprits in the depletion of the Ozone layer are CFCs,

CH4, N2O, CO2, a major cause of global warming the reduction in

the global ozone layer has been noticed over the past two decades

[17,18]. The contribution of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to the

depletion of the ozone layer and the subsequent causing of climate

change is tremendous. On the other hand deforestation and the

clearing of vegetated surfaces for road construction, building of

houses, farming and timber logging have aided the phenomenon

of climate change. Deforestation is a factor of climate change as it

denies the earth's surface carbon exchange with the atmosphere,


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