Effects of Global Warming

Global warming is all about adverse climate change caused by the trapping of green house gases (like carbon dioxide) in the earths atmosphere that affects biodiversity and poses a serious health hazard. 1. Weather Global warming is making hot days hotter, rainfall and flooding heavier, hurricanes stronger and droughts more severe. This intensification of weather and climate extremes will be the most visible impact of global warming in our everyday lives. People who have the least ability to cope with these changes--the poor, very old, very young, or sick--are the most vulnerable. 2. Sea Level Glaciers and ice shelves around the world are melting. The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect). An immediate result of melting glaciers would be a rise in sea levels. Initially, the rise in sea level would only be an inch or two. Even a modest rise in sea levels could cause flooding problems for low-lying coastal areas. However, if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt and collapse into the sea, it would push sea levels up 10 meters (more than 32 feet), and many coastal areas would completely disappear beneath the ocean. 3. Agriculture With the impact of global warmings effects, agriculture becomes increasingly difficult. Farmers will find it hard to grow crops in the face of droughts and other natural disasters. Will you be able to eat the same foods youre used to eating? What will happen to the worlds food supply?

Diseases and fungi will attack crops, lowering quality and production. Without the normal cold spells, diseases and invasive species will spread more easily, affecting more of our worlds food supply. Farmers will either have to sell the food as is, or spray it with harmful chemicals that may hurt your health. Natural disasters will destroy existing crops. Flooding, drought, and hailstorms are just some of the problems farmers will have to deal with more often as global warming worsens. Once abundant foods may disappear or become more expensive. The destructive, frequent natural disasters, combined with a swelling world population, will lead to an increased demand for staples like rice, maize, and wheat. This will cause food shortages and dramatic price increases around the world.

4. Human health Increased frequency and severity of heat waves will lead to more heat stroke and other heat-related illness and death. Senior citizens and children are particularly vulnerable to these effects. The world has already seen the effects of heat on human health: The summer 2003 heat wave in Europe that claimed 35,000 lives was likely made worse by global warming, and in the summer of 2007, Greece suffered a massive heat wave and record wildfires. Eleven of the past 12 years rank among the hottest on record, and the Centers for Disease Control reports that heat waves already account for more deaths annually in the United States than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes combined. The death toll is projected to increase as heat waves become more frequent.

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