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Global Climate Change

Climate change is the change in average patterns of natural events or phenomena such as temperature and rainfall over time in a region or around the world. Changes may occur naturally as well as occur due to human activities posing threats to nature. How Climate Change Occur / Causes of Climate Change There has been a drastic increase in climate change since the industrial revolution around the globe. Greenhouse gases are the primary cause behind these climatic changes. These gases trap and hold light energy reaching the earth’s surface from the sun, and radiate it in the form of infrared heat. Eventually, this process causes an increase in the average temperature of the atmosphere of our globe. Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrogen oxide (N2O), and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are major greenhouse gas contributors.  Carbon DiOxide (CO 2 ) .  CO2 is generated due to natural processes (i.e. volcanic eruptions) as well as through human activities (deforestation and burning of fossi

What are Neutrinos? How do we detect them?

Neutrinos are tiny, almost weightless particles that only interact by gravity and nuclear decay because they don't interact electromagnetically i.e with light. It literally can't be seen. In fact detecting a neutrino is kind of catching a bullet with butterfly net. A beam of neutrinos can travel through lead for 2 years before it stops. In comparison, radiation from a nuclear reactor will be blocked by a 10 cm of lead. So one common way to detect a neutrino is to fill a big tank with water. We know that light slow down while traveling through water. And if a neutrino knocks out the electron in water, the electron will zip through the water faster than the light does. When this happens, the electron gives a weak glow called Cherenkov radiation . "Cherenkov radiations is an electromagnetic radiation which is emitted in result of passing of a charged particle through some dielectric medium with a speed more than phase velocity of light in that medium. a classic example of Che