[Hawnsgist] Read The Cause Of Recent Uptick In Heat In Nigeria

Over the past few weeks, Nigeria has experienced extraordinary severe sunlight and heat. We’ve had to move about with umbrellas or handkerchiefs and consume sachets of ‘pure’ water or bottle water, anything to make the heat bearable. We have to sleep wearing light cloths so as to make the midnight sweating a little more bearable.

There’s even a standing joke that the cause of this severe heat is because the last person to go into hell had refused to close the doors. Sometimes last, month, a Nigerian wrote an open letter to the sun, pleading that it reduce its intensity on account of how It was unarguably the hottest thing on the planet and without competition.

So the real question is what exactly is the cause of this sudden rise in temperature?
Well, the answer is simple.” Global warming”.
We may have heard of the phrase ‘global warming’ during our primary or secondary school education.
Global warming is the process whereby the temperature of the earth (global) increases due to the depletion of the ozone layer. The Ozone layer is a sort of cover that shields the earth from the direct heat of the sun. But due to the activities of man such as the burning of fossil fuel (petrol, diesel, gas), the ozone layer is being gradually destroyed and the more this continues, the more direct sunlight hits the earth, thereby making the earth hotter.

This has been a major global concerned for quite some time now. Late last year, the United Nations noticing this danger reached impending decision that all its member states must cut down on their consumption of fossil fuel. That decision affected Nigeria adversely because many countries stopped purchasing crude oil from Nigeria and that has led to the rise in the valve of dollar when compared to Naira.

But in spite of its disadvantage, the down cut in the use of fossil fuel might actually be saving lives. It will help reduce air pollution, flood rate and other life threatening hazards.