Abdur raheem green islamic pattern

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Abdurraheem Green gives an Islamic perspective on climate change.

“Climate change is the most severe problem we are facing today- more serious even than the threat of terrorism.”

 This is according to Sir David Anthony King, the former Chief Scientific Adviser to the British Government and Head of the Government Office for Science from October 2000 to 31 December 2007.

The potential human suffering brought about as a direct consequence of the effects of global warming are catastrophic!

The warming of the world’s oceans is expanding their volume, while polar ice sheets have started to melt and glaciers around the world are shrinking. The combination of these changes is increasing sea level. Coastal systems and low lying areas will increasingly experience adverse impacts such as submergence, coastal flooding and coastal erosion .

Extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts, heavy rain and snow, storms and floods are becoming more frequent or more intense.

In Europe the Mediterranean area is becoming drier, making it even more vulnerable to drought and wildfires. Northern Europe, meanwhile, is getting significantly wetter, and winter floods could become common and are expected to cause significant changes in the quality and

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