Global_Warming

Global warming can be a serious problem in the world today. Global warming is a gradual increase in the earth’s surface temperature. It is caused by the emission of heat trapping gases produced from vehicles, power plants, and many other things. Global warming can affect countless things such as humans, nature, and cities. The effects of global warming on humans are numerous. Sharon Thompson reports in her book The Greenhouse Effect that “daily like for many people would probably be more uncomfortable. Most areas of the world will not only have hotter days but also more of them” (64). Furthermore, with an increase in temperatures tsete flies, which carry sleeping sickness, would probably spread (Thompson 66). Thompson continues, “Heat waves would also push up the numbers of premature births, miscarriages, and newborn deaths” (64). Also, studies report that a temperatures rise could increase the number of heat-related deaths more than six times (Thompson 64). If warming does continue, death caused from [it] will double in just twenty-five years (“What Is Global Warming'”). In addition to increased temperatures, humans will experience other climate changed that pose potentially catastrophic and long-term changes to the environment and people’s lives (“Climate Change”). Millions of people’s lives will be at risk because climate change will cause the extinction of countless species and destroy some of the world’s most precious ecosystems (“Climate Change”). The most important effect on humans from global warming is an increase in illnesses. Thompson reports that “extreme heat not only causes pre-existing illnesses to worsen, it can indirectly cause other diseases as well” (65). Also, rising water would push salt water up rivers, poisoning driving water in many areas. This could kill many. Unfortunately, malaria has already spread of higher altitudes because of global warming (“What is Global Warming'”). Global warming is causing heat strokes because of the temperatures being reached (Kluger 50). Finally, “other studies have shown that the number of cases of heart and lung disease increases when the temperatures rises” (Thompson 65). Therefore, global warming will definitely have a negative impacts on humans’ future existence. Global warming can also have various effects of nature. Many disasters such as increased hurricane intensity, glacier decline, increased drought, spread of disease, shifts in the timing of seasons, increased flooding, changes in freshwater supply, and an increase in extreme weather events can be caused by climate change and rising temperatures (“Climate Change”). Kluger states, “Rising temperatures are creating havoc with the earth’s weather, bring too much rain to some, not enough to others” (60). Thompson reports, “High temperatures often result in more insects” (65). Hurricanes have almost doubled in the last thirty years (“What is Global Warming'”). Thompson reports, “Hurricanes could become forty to fifty percent more severe if ocean temperatures increase by only a few degrees. This could be disastrous for coastal cities, resorts, harbors, and wetlands (60). The droughts caused by global warming are causing the land to dry out which is killing all the crops. With there only being limited crops, many animals and people are hungry for food (Kluger 60). Furthermore, high temperatures are causing the arctic to melt and many animals are drowning (Kluger 52). According to the article “What is Global Warming'”, “The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled over the past decade. If the warming continues, global sea levels could rise by more than twenty feet with the loss of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas worldwide.” Reports indicate that the Arctic ocean could be ice free in summer of 2050 (“What is Global Warming'”). Article “What is Global Warming'” also states, “At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles.” Furthermore by 2050, more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction. With the information given, global warming will have a negative effect on nature. In addition, global warming can have many effects on cities. It can cause the death of a major American city (Kluger 62). Rising sea levels can result in cities being flooded, cropland being destroyed, fishing grounds disturbed, and people being displaced (Thompson 64). Al Gore states in his book An Inconvenient Truth that “one of America’s greatest cities [New Orleans] had literally drowned. More than a year later, the recovery is only in the beginning stages” (70). The oceans sea level is getting higher; therefore, we have to move to higher ground and abandon vulnerable floodplains (Kluger 52). Gore elaborates, “Rising seas would mean millions of people would have to evacuate their homes. This has already happened in the low-lying island nations in the Pacific” (109). Thompson reports in her book The Greenhouse Effect that “The streets of Jakarta vanished underwater after torrential rain displaced 190,000 people in February. Bigger storms make the world’s floodplains even more vulnerable” (60). Global warming has begun to thaw large areas of permafrost; buildings that are built on permafrost are collapsing because the permafrost is thawing and becoming to soft to supports the structures (Gore 90). The changes in nature does to global warming are devastating to everything involved. Human, nature, and cites are just a few of the effects of global warming. There are many others. With all the information given, global warming give a negative effect towards most everything.