Today, scientist argue over the consequences of global warming. Scientist say that the heating of the atmosphere can influence many health problems. Some of the related problems due to global warming are death to heat waves and other climate changes, and infectious diseases. With the atmosphere temperature rising, we all will be at risk. The climate not only harms our bodies, it can also harm our crops and waters.
Floods and droughts associated with global warming can undermine our health in other ways. The heat that is produced can damage our crops. The temperature will allow our crops to be infected with diseases and infestations such as pests and weeds. By destroying our crops, this can lead to malnutrition world wide.
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Not only will we have problems world wide, we can also have problems in Florida and other areas in the United States.
With the heat on the rise, so are misquotes. Misquote-born diseases are more likely to spread if global warming head upwards. Two of the most common diseases carried by misquotes are malaria and dengue fever. Malaria already kills 3,000 people, mostly children, every day. Since 1990, when the hottest decade on record began, outbreaks of locally transmitted malaria have occurred in Florida and other states in the
U.S. Conditions like Florida and other states with a high range of hot spells are perfect for misquotes. For years, scientist have been theorizing about the effects of global warming and coming up with new ideas and solutions to put a hold on global warming.
The determination on health for humans will depend on a large extent on the steps taken to prepare for the dangers. Some scientist have come up with the “ideal strategy.”
The ideal defensive strategy would have multiple components. One of these multiple components include surveillance systems that would promptly spot the emergence or resurgence of infectious diseases or vectors that carry them. Scientist believe that a discovery could quickly trigger measures that could control vector
Due to our mass pollution to the atmosphere, humans are the main cause of global warming. “Since the beginning of the 1900s, the average surface temperature of Earth has risen by 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit” (Levete, 11). Global warming leads to temperature change. Iceberg and glaciers are melting at a rapid rate. This will cause sea level to rise. The Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets “lost an average of 571 trillion pounds (259 trillion kilograms) of mass every year during the six-year study period, making the oceans rise 0.03 inches (0.7 mm)
The impacts of climate change effects human health and their lifestyle of survival. People in developing areas that are trying to establish themselves as a country are mainly the ones who are exposed to the danger. Pregnant women, older adults and children with very low incomes have a much higher chance of increased life threatening results due to climate change. Warmer temperatures will end up leading to much more hotter days and possible longer heat waves. The changes shall lead to an increase in heat related deaths here in the United states of a total between one thousand to ten thousand.
and adding to the warming problem, as we are unnaturally adding carbon into the cycle,
Usually when people think of global warming, they usually think of all the countries being very hot and people getting heat strokes. Although global warming does make the earth warmer, there is way more to it in the effects of global warming than just heat. Global warming is the increment in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, which is observed and projected during long-time scale. And it brings with it many negative effects such as; the increase in the temperature of the atmosphere, the melting of the ice caps, the loss of species, the increase of storms, diseases, and economic consequences. The factors that cause global warming are divided into two categories, the
In today 's world one of the biggest issue faces by all of us is global warming. Global warming refers to an increase in average global temperatures. The main cause of global warming is increasing in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere due to anthropogenic activities and their level is quantified with the help of global warming potential (GWP) and expressed as carbon footprint. The present study describes the GHG inventory from major sectors including energy, industries, and agriculture and aviation sector and computed the total emissions in terms of carbon footprint using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines and data of World Bank.
The constant exponential increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases emitted by humans from 1750 until now is currently changing planet earth 's climate. These emissions are mainly the cause of fossil fuel use. Because the amount greenhouse gas on a planet determines the amount of infrared radiation being absorbed, the increase of emissions corresponds to rising atmospheric temperatures (Bintanja, Van de Wal, & Oerlemans, 2005). The rate at which these greenhouse gases are being released does not mimic any past natural environmental changes and as ice core drillings suggest there is more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now that there has been over the last 650,000 years stats (Lüthi, 2008).This dramatic altering of the composition of gases in earth 's atmosphere has adverse effects on all weather systems. This change is called global warming or climate change. The purpose of this paper is to describe the potential outcomes of change in global climate. This paper will first focuses on the impacts of emissions of atmospheric greenhouse and also how an overall warming of the atmosphere will and is changing weather patterns as well as associated ecological factors. It will then describe the effects of sea level rise due to polar ice cap melting and how this will affect human activity and migration. Finally it will look into the ecological effects climate change is and will have on New Zealand.
Many different issues can be linked to global warming and its causes. According to Mike Hulme in his Article Global Warming, He states that, “the climate changes due global warming causes many intense weathers such as droughts, heat waves and severe cold winters. (Hulme, 2000)” With the
Global Warming is one of the most impactful issues confronting our planet. It is the rise in the temperature of the world 's surface air, and is a standout amongst the most present and generally examined components. It has great effect on the climatic states of the planet as well as on biodiversity. A few test and inclines unmistakably exhibit that global warming is straightforwardly affecting the rising ocean levels, the softening of ice glaciers, and critical overall atmosphere changes. To sum it up, global warming speaks to be a major danger to every living thing on earth as we know it and will continue to do so if no changes are made to retract it.
Climate change is neither new nor unusual. Throughout the history of the earth, the average surface temperature, climate and greenhouse gas concentrations have changed, sometimes gradually other times quite sharply. During the past 10,000 years the earth has been in an interglacial period with a fairly stable climate, surface temperature, and greenhouse gas concentration1. The problem that has arisen in recent times is when scientists analyze the past 150 years, especially the last 50. Scientists have found an increased greenhouse gas concentration, making the 20th century the hottest in the last 10,000 years.
The term global warming refers to the rise in average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere. It refers to temperature increase that is large enough to induce changes in the global climate. Global warming is analogous to the modern greenhouse effect, which refers to the rise in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As a result of this, there is an increase of solar radiation, which leads to the rapid rise in the overall earth’s temperature (Morgan114). Global warming has become the major climatic topic of conversation in this 21stcentury. This is due to the fact that it has brought disastrous effects to limelight by causing environmental disasters. Some of the major environmental catastrophe includes the huge floods common in some of the nations, severe drought, and the devastating cyclone throughout the world.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Growing up I heard this phrase in folktales as a “wolf cry”-- a cry that is so ridiculous that nobody would believe it. Now that global warming is a major environmental issue, the saying doesn’t sound so out of place. Most people might say: what is global warming? That’s the question that was running through my mind when I first heard we were watching a documentary on it in my class. The film is Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and it is about the causes of global warming and what it is doing to our planet. Being an environmentally involved citizen and growing up with conservative Republicans as parents, I was torn between not really liking Gore and this extreme reality that I felt was an
The most complicated issue facing world leaders today very well may be global warming. Over time, more and more warnings from the scientific community have come about. Some of them being the non-stop build up of human related greenhouse gases that are mainly produced by the burning of fossil fuels, economic, technological, and political issues. In late 2010, world-wide talks began and many agreements were made between many of the leaders of foreign countries, and an international process for dealing with this particular problem received many votes of confidence.
Global warming is the progressive gradual rise of the earth's surface temperature thought to be caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect and responsible for changes in global climate patterns. The greenhouse effect is a term used to describe the roles of water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other trace gases in keeping the Earth's surface warmer than it would be otherwise.
In the February 1st edition of the New York Times, journalist Andrew C. Revkin discusses the rising threat of global warming, and more importantly, the disagreement between various nations and institutions upon the definition of “dangerously high global warming.” Revkin’s article, titled “Deciding How Much Global Warming Is Too Much,” brings to light the various failed attempts at creating a barrier at which industrialized countries (the main producers of the greenhouse gasses which result in global warming) will cut the release of harmful gasses into the atmosphere. Revkin also discusses how upcoming events, conferences; reports will hopefully solve this problem.
Global Warming, aside from pollution is one of scientists biggest concerns. Global Warming is caused by the Greenhouse effect. There are 4 steps in the Greenhouse effect process. The first is, sunlight radiates from the sun, through space, to the Earth’s atmosphere. The second is, sunlight enters the atmosphere and hits the Earth. Some of that sunlight turns into heat energy in the form of infrared light. Surrounding air and land, which in turn makes the heat warm, absorbs the heat. Third, the greenhouse gases trap infrared rays that is remitted into the atmosphere. Finally, the gas then absorbs the light and is remitted back to the Earth’s surface and warms it even more. Another cause of Global Warming is the emissions