Effect of the Current Military Bombardments on Global Warming and Climate Change
- 1 Center of Environmental & Biological Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
- 2 Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between recent military conflicts and their contribution to global warming and climate change. It examines how bombings and explosions emit greenhouse gases, particularly CO 2 , and estimates their cumulative impact relative to overall atmospheric concentrations. The analysis highlights those ongoing four conflicts, such as those in Gaza, the Middle East, and Ukraine, have contributed significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, thereby exacerbating global temperature rise. The paper further discusses the broader implications of increased atmospheric heat, including enhanced climate variability and entropy, leading to more extreme weather events and ecological disruption. Our approximate calculations show that the increase in the global temperature (ΔT) will be only 0.0013˚C (13 mK) due to CO 2 emissions from bombings in the four military conflicts. The approximate resulted entropy change (ΔS) is 5.34 × 10 15 J/K.
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