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Cause And Effect Of Global Warming

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Due to the warming of the Earth and the changing climates, more major shifts in the weather could happen more frequently. Many scientists worry that the continuous warming of the atmosphere in the future decades could causes destructive storms and extreme climatic events to occur more often. El Nino, the Pacific coast phenomenon that causes a warm current along Peru’s coast, has occurred for the last four years in a row. It has led to crop failures in Australia and floods in California and has affected the monsoons of Southeast Asia (Bender 77). Meteorologist Gerhard Berz states that global warming is affecting the severity and frequency of natural disasters. The amount of destructive storms in recent years is four times more than there were in the 1960s (Bender 77). These temperamental storms could have vast effects globally, wiping out countries, and taking lives of all kinds of species on Earth. Over the recent decades, the Earth’s warming climate has had a tremendous effect on glaciers. Glaciers contain snow that has turned into ice after snow has layered on and froze because they are formed on the coldest parts of the Earth. In order for glaciers to maintain their size, a greater amount of snow has to fall each year than the amount that melts off (Help Save Nature). Since enough snow isn’t falling to replace the ice that is melting off, the glaciers are diminishing. Everyday ice all over the world gets shrinks in size, which threatens the lives of arctic animals. Arctic ice has thinned and shrunk dramatically over the past couple decades. The melting rate of the glaciers is speeding up. The extent of arctic ice “declined by about 10 percent in the past 30 years”(Glick). Ice naturally melts during the summer time, but the amount of ice that has melted is not all from nature. It is over the average amount of summer ice melt. Some countries depend on the ice that naturally melts off of glaciers for fresh drinking water, agricultural use, and some even depend on it for electricity power. “The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912” (Glick). Some glaciers are melting so fast that researchers believe that they could disappear completely in upcoming years. For example National

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