What are the effects of global warming on the environment?

Answer 1

Global warming and climate change alters earth's normal doings, thereby affecting its weather patterns and changing the conditions of its various spheres.

Possible effects of global warming include;

• drought,
• violent and severe storms,
• frequent flooding due to ice meltdown,
• loss of organisms natural habitats,
• torrential/heavy rainfall,
• rapid spread of disease,
• competition for survival between animals and human,
• water pollution and decrease in ocean salinity,
• new species invasion,
• migration and climate refugees, and
• triggering of man-made disasters.

Hurricane levels are slight down in volume and showing slightly stronger in intensity. From the standpoint of the poles, although the Antarctic is gaining in overall ice extent on the east side, it continues losing ice in total volume. The North pole has seen significant loss.

In many areas droughts are more severe than would be otherwise, leading to increased danger of fire or crop failure. Ocean levels, of course, continue to rise. This has not yet resulted in substantial coastal flooding, but the rate is projected to increase.

Extinctions are expected to continue, with climate factors gaining on and exacerbating habitat loss. Plant and animal ranges are expected to shift to higher latitudes, some of which has already been observed.

Answer 2

Global warming has led to rising sea levels, more frequent and severe natural disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, disrupted ecosystems and habitats, and shifts in weather patterns. It also threatens biodiversity, food security, and human health.

Answer 3

Global warming is causing climate change. This has many effects. It will make the earth's atmosphere very hot causing colder climates to melt, this is a real problem for some parts of the world. This may lead to many other problems. This may cause people to die and animals like polar bears will be extinct.

A:

Global warming, at its most simplistic, simply results in hotter weather. The difference over the entire twentieth century is only 0.75 degrees Celsius, an apparently small increment, but what is really happening tends to be a slightly higher number of very hot days in some areas. Moreover, local effects can mean that certain areas suffer from periods of unprecedented heatwave. For example, Moscow, renowned for its cold weather, recently experienced a long period with temperatures over 40 degrees C (104 degrees Fahrenheit).

Changing patterns to wind and ocean currents can result in the freezing winters recently experienced in the United States or, at worst, moving the Gulf Stream away from the United Kingdom a dire effect which, if it occurs, would lower the temperature of the British Isles dramatically, with devastating consequences. So global warming can mean local cooling, at least on an occasional or random basis.

We have already begun to experience more frequent severe hurricanes, and can probably add tornadoes to that.

• Of the 8 years with the most hurricanes since 1851, 3 have been in the last 20 years and only one prior to 1916.
• Of the 8 years with the most major hurricanes since 1851, 3 have been in the last 20 years and none prior to 1926.
• The year 2005 was the year with the highest Accumulated Cyclone Energy.

Some areas will experience more frequent severe flooding, while other areas will experience sever and prolonged droughts. The arctic sea ice is expected soon to melt entirely during summer months. Rising sea levels and more powerful storm surges will devastate some communities along the coasts and in low-lying areas.

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Well Global Warming affects our Environment in a lot of ways.

• For starters it causes the polar ice caps to melt, that on its own will bring a number of species to extinction;
• because of the melting ice caps the sea level will rise very much, enough to flood all of Florida and other coastal areas alike;
• global warming may cause droughts and hurricanes...
• it will also eventually make our planet 3 degrees warmer which may not sound like a lot but it is huge! human life would have to live underground because our bodies simply could not take the heat. We would have to wear astronaut spacesuits to go outside (this would happen only in about a million years though). To resume life as we know it would change on level that humans will have to change over millions of years to adapt to the Earth.

Answer 4

Although it is difficult to connect specific weather events to global warming, an increase in global temperatures may in turn cause broader changes, including glacial retreat, Arctic shrinkage, and worldwide sea level rise. Changes in the amount and pattern of precipitation may result in flooding and drought. There may also be changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Other effects may include changes in agricultural yields, addition of new trade routes, reduced summer streamflows, species extinctions, and increases in the range of disease vectors.

Some effects on both the natural environment and human life are, at least in part, already being attributed to global warming. A 2001 report by the IPCC suggests that glacier retreat, ice shelf disruption such as that of the Larsen Ice Shelf, sea level rise, changes in rainfall patterns, and increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, are being attributed in part to global warming.While changes are expected for overall patterns, intensity, and frequencies, it is difficult to attribute specific events to global warming. Other expected effects include water scarcity in some regions and increased precipitation in others, changes in mountain snowpack, and adverse health effects from warmer temperatures.

Increasing deaths, displacements, and economic lossesprojected due to extreme weather attributed to global warming may be exacerbated by growing population densities in affected areas, although temperate regions are projected to experience some benefits, such as fewer deaths due to cold exposure. A summary of probable effects and recent understanding can be found in the report made for the IPCC Third Assessment Report by Working Group II. The newer IPCC Fourth Assessment Report summary reports that there is observational evidence for an increase in intense tropical cyclone activity in the North Atlantic Ocean since about 1970, in correlation with the increase in sea surface temperature, but that the detection of long-term trends is complicated by the quality of records prior to routine satellite observations. The summary also states that there is no clear trend in the annual worldwide number of tropical cyclones.

Additional anticipated effects include sea level rise of 110 to 770 millimeters (0.36 to 2.5 ft) between 1990 and 2100,[79] repercussions to agriculture, possible slowing of the thermohaline circulation, reductions in the ozone layer, increased intensity of hurricanes and extreme weather events, lowering of ocean pH, and the spread of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. One study predicts 18% to 35% of a sample of 1,103 animal and plant species would be extinct by 2050, based on future climate projections.However, few mechanistic studies have documented extinctions due to recent climate change and one study suggests that projected rates of extinction are uncertain.

Answer 5

Global Warming is doing many things to our earth and environment. Such as melting the polar ice caps, threatening polar bears, flooding low-lying countries, raising sea-levels.

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Global warming causes:

1. Environment to increase temperature by about 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.

2. Rise of sea levels by at least 25 meters.

A:Global Warming is the effect of greenhouse gases in action. It is caused because water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane are released into the atmosphere because of this the sunlight from the sun is being trapped in the atmosphere and heating the earth. There are some serious effects of Global Warming, like flooding, extreme weather, serious heat waves, crop failure and famine.

Answer 6

Potential outcomes predicted because of global warming:

1. Rising sea levels - this has already begun, with sea levels rising be 20 centimetres over the twentieth century and, on the most recent data, predicted to rise by another 90 to 150 centimetres over this century. Although this appears to be a small rise in sea level, it will have a devastating effect on the littoral zone, beaches, coastal communities and some Pacific Island nations.
2. Food shortages, as some areas experience devastating floods, while others experience prolonged droughts
3. Loss of biodiversity - species extinction
4. More frequent and more severe extreme weather events

Answer 7

1. Animals' habitats affected meaning animals move, adapt or die, humans included.
2. Sea levels rising and coastlands and croplands flooded.
3. Glaciers melting and drying up the great rivers of Asia that support millions of people.
4. More and more unusual and severe weather events, like heat waves that can kill thousands of people in a day.

Answer 8

It has prevented the earth from freezing.

It has provided an environment for life to exist and to flourish.

It has kept all organisms alive.

Answer 9

Global warming is the increase of greenhouse gases. They can cause various other environmental issues.

Answer 10

Globalization causes more pollution. This causes more environmental issues.