Far-Reaching Implications of Global Warming

As a result of "human emissions of greenhouse gasses," numerous species of butterflies worldwide are facing the risk of extinction (World Wide Fund). Global warming is the gradual heating of the planet, which is triggered by human activities such as pollution from factories, results in climate change around the world (Rogers). Due to climate change, various species of butterflies need to adapt to these changes, but instead, they are dying out due to their sensitivity to fluctuating temperatures (Rogers). In the United Kingdom, scientists predict that “for every 1 °C increase in southwestern Europe’s temperature, some 14 different species of migratory butterflies and moths are forced to make the leap to England to cool off, which means making a long journey over open water” (Rogers). Climate change has required many species of butterflies to leave their migration paths and cross the treacherous oceans; this increases their risk of death

Climate changes have led to differences in the weather. This creates more occurrences of climatic extremes of heat and cold more often than what was ever seen before. These rapid changes in weather are negatively affecting the earth's biosphere. Several animals have suffered from the effects of global warming including monarch butterflies. What is the most alarming is how crucial climate changes are to these monarch butterflies. These changes indicate that the Earth's ecosystem and the species living on the planet such as monarch butterflies may be unable to withstand the consequences that the earth places on them. Six species that are at a higher risk have already started to suffer tragic consequences. These six species of butterflies are

1098/RSBL.2010.0053). After the observations and recordings were gathered, the pair set eggs of the butterfly, Heteronympha metope, in chambers where the temperature could be controlled and found the caterpillar pupates prior and the butterfly sooner in hotter than ordinary conditions. The pairs then made a numerical model joining these physiological impacts of temperature with atmosphere information. The development dates figured by the model co-ordinated the verifiable records, firmly recommended that a global warming alteration has driven the adjustments in rise timing. “The rise in air temperate links to the butterfly emergence in a cause-and -effect pattern” (Michael Kearney and Natalie Briscoe,

Within the last fifty years, global temperature has increased significantly faster than the past 650,000 years. In the next one hundred years, the global temperature is supposed to rise by three to nine degrees. This may not seem like such a big change however, with a rise in temperature, many negative consequences will being to show. Some of these consequences include but are not limited to destroying the O-zone, increase in disease, powerful weather disasters, rising sea levels, and overall decrease in health for all things living on Earth. If people do not become informed by the consequences of what they do every day, humans may no longer have a planet to call home.

This paper will define global warming and discuss how greenhouse gases affect the Earth. While greenhouse gases are necessary for life to exist on Earth, an overabundance or shortage of greenhouse gases can be detrimental. Human activities have caused an overabundance of these gases, and it is necessary for humans to become aware of how their activities affect the Earth. It is necessary for humans to begin modifying their behaviors that cause global warming and its negative effects, such as severe weather pattern changes, rises in temperatures, effects on agriculture, as well as animal and plant extinctions.

Scientists and environmental studies students have been documenting a rise in the melting of glaciers. It noticeable that the snow have been melting a lot earlier than expected every year. The production of greenhouse gases was in balance a long time ago, but that balance has been broken due to the human activity at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The elevated burning of fossil fuels caused by human activity is the main reason for this balance to break. Plants and oceans cannot handle the huge amount of greenhouse gases that humans have been dumping in the atmosphere. According to The Union of Concerned Scientists, a major group of over two thousand scientists, there has been an increase of more than 30% percent in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and it is estimated that it will triple by 2100. Carbon dioxide is the most abundant gas liberated in the burning of fossil fuels and also one of the most dangerous gases contibuting to climate change. Carbon dioxide represents about 84 percent of all greenhouse gases emitted by human activities. Carbon dioxide has a property that traps heat, thereby increasing global warming.

Global warming has also played an active role in the health problems that affect the population. Global warming naysayers persist that the health issues that come with global warming are non-existent. The burning of fossil fuels, sunlight, warm air, and pollution from power plants combine to create ground level smog. Warmer temperatures and higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stimulates some plants to grow faster and produce more potent allergens. Chronic allergy problems rank among the most common illnesses that lower productivity . This in turn creates poor air quality and has an adverse effect on the population with breathing disorders(climatehotmap.org) . The warmer temperatures have created milder winters. This has caused an increase in the insect population. The recent increase in the spread of new and existing diseases can be attributed to the insect population, particularly mosquitoes. The increase in the global temperatures has increased the insect population, creating more carriers of disease. (climatehotmap.org) The increase of diseases and health problems proves

Global climate change is going to change with or without the help of humans because we

It would be a rare week indeed without hearing about global warming on the television or radio, or reading about it in the newspaper or an online blog. There have been many opinions from an abundance of points of view on the subject. Scientists, politicians, and environmentalists have all weighed in on the debate, and each of them is passionate about their beliefs. Some issues brought about due to global warming are polar ice caps melting, glaciers receding more and more each year, and rising ocean levels. These problems can lead to dwindling food supplies, fewer drinking water sources, and coastal flooding, to name a few (Miller 58). Essentially, the primary issue with global warming is whether humans are causing the planet’s climate to warm to damaging levels. Contrary to what the mainstream and social media would lead people to believe, global warming is most likely a natural cycle that planet Earth witnesses.

The idea of global warming has been drilled into many childrens heads’ starting 5th grade. From there, it has never stopped. The idea that the ozone layer is breaking up around the North Pole is scary, and there isn’t anything society can do about it. It’s not like an illness or cut where a doctor can prescribe medicine or put a Band-Aid on it. It’s a real global disaster. It’s a global disaster that could potentially ruin Earth. Global warming is not only affecting people’s health, but it is also destroying life on Earth in its process.

Global warming is called by some as a threat to all people on all nations while others disregard it as another publicity stunt by the media. Research tends to indicate that humans have caused most of the past century 's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. The result is global warming with the weather patterns shifting and glaciers melting, the world we know today is slowly dissipating as these changes bring about dramatic consequences for all on the planet including humans and other animals. There have been many claims about the seriousness of global warming as well as the root cause of the problem. While there are are well-founded claims, others are completely fallacious.

Global Warming has been devastating the earth and economy for the last twenty-five years. Greenhouse gasses developed from the production of chemicals such as R-22, oil, and factories have destroyed ozone and ecosystems for the last hundred years. Carbon dioxide is produced naturally and absorbed by plants and animals, but, too much, and it is deadly. With the increase in automobiles and production, the world government has begun to address the issue of greenhouse gasses with limits and requirements for larger nations, creating higher impacts of production and driving. Global warming has become a major concern for the economy because the increased temperatures have caused degradation of permafrost, ocean levels and temperatures to rise, and plants to grow at an uncontrolled rate.

So what actually is global warming? Obviously the name explains it; the globe becoming warmer. But what does it mean “to become warmer”? The sun isn’t getting hotter; the world isn’t traveling closer to the sun. Global warming is when rapid moving particles collide more and more with other rapid moving particles and are trapped by the atmosphere’s thick layer of gas molecules. As more heat is trapped, particles that are in earth’s atmosphere collide with each other. As more collisions are present, the average kinetic energy which is the average speed at which the particles collide with one another increases therefore the temperature increases which affects many aspects of life.

Global warming presents a huge problem in the world today, but not every scientist believes this. They think that the weather is just supposed to change naturally. If you look around there is evidence to support this theory. The sea level is rising, the global temperature has become warmer, the oceans are not as cold, and the Arctic ice has begun to disappear. Greenhouse effect and the depletion of the ozone layer also contributes to Global warming. There are many predictions about Global warming, the Greenhouse effect, sea level rising. Scientist have various predictions on how life on Earth will change by the year 2100.

Global warming is a great threat to the flora and fauna of the earth. A large number of species of them may become extinct.