Learn about some of the effects of global warming

Global warming and climatic change

Global warming leading to climate change is an all encompassing threat.

It is a threat to health, since a warmer world is one in which infectious diseases such as malaria and yellow fever will spread further and faster. Innumerable other infectious diseases will thrive. It could imperil the world's food supply, as rising temperatures and prolonged drought render fertile areas unfit for grazing or crops.

It could endanger the very ground on which nearly half the worlds population Iive -  coastal cities such as Lagos or Cape Town, which face dangers from sea levels rising as a result of inciting icecaps and glaciers.

Sea Ice May Be Increasing in the Antarctic

universetoday.com
A NASA-funded study has discovered that sea ice in the Antarctic might actually be on the increase as global temperatures go up. There has been overwhelming evidence that sea ice is decreasing in the Arctic ocean, but scientists didn't realize there might be a difference between the two poles.

Disappearing world: global warming claims tropical island
Geoffrey Lean

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.

Global warming killing some species
Seth Borenstein

Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends. These fast-moving adaptations come as a surprise even to biologists and ecologists because they are occurring so rapidly.

More disasters for a warmer world
BBC News

Rising temperatures will increase the risk of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two centuries, UK climate scientists have warned. Even if harmful emissions were cut now, many parts of the world would face a greater risk of natural disasters.

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