How has global warming affected our health, the environment, and the animal kingdom?

Answer 1

Asthma and skin cancer are becoming more prevalent, the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica are melting, causing rising sea levels, and animal and plant species are dying because of extreme climate changes. Natural disasters are becoming more destructive and frequent, like Katrina and the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Answer 2

On the human side, since that's the one that matters most to people: each summer for the last fifteen years the number of heat related deaths has been steadily climbing in what were once considered temperate cities. Just a few years ago heat deaths in Paris numbered in tens of thousands. The statistics for New York, Chicago, Detroit and western cities such as LA and San Francisco show the steady upward trend. Here's my source on this:

http://box.mmm.ucar.edu/uswrp/program_overview/USWRP_Program_Plan_4.2.pdf

Biologists and wildlife managers around the world have noted that animals that once ranged in tropical areas have migrated steadily north. Actually the trend is across the range of species, as when one species moves into a new region it displaces the existing ones.

This has also been noted in fish populations worldwide. Now there are probably good and bad aspects to this. Warm waters are fertile for some species, but damage others. The widening of the warm water breeding grounds will likely have a detrimental effect on cold water fish species. It is also likely that many of the already tropically warm breeding grounds will become too warm to sustain breeding. We have seen extensive 'black water' zones in the tropics, are far north as the coast of Florida. These are liefeless de-oxygenated areas; they are mobile and do eventually disperse, but they are an alarming trend.

There seems to be an increase that is warm water related to coastal eutrophication. This is the process by which nitrogenated runoff from the coast pollutes and makes lifeless coastal fisheries.

Both of these trends have been tracked with concern my oceanographers for the last half century. They are increasing in range and harmfulness, and it is certain that the steady heating of ocean waters has not helped in either case.

How all of this affects our human health should be obvious. It disturbs the food supply. Similarly desertification is encroaching on farm lands all over the nation. To those who say that a warmed global would be more fertile, there is no evidence to show this is the likely result. It must be counted as twisted wishful thinking coming from the people who have for so long denied the global warming trend.

You will note in my post that I have not placed causality on the warming trend. I only note that it is measured and known. I do not know if it is human caused, and that is another question.

Answer 3

not enough to cause all the "hoop-la" it seems to have generated. Yes it seems that "global warming" is becoming a threat to the environment and everything in it. But if you actually STUDY the science i mean literally take your time to go over the analysis' and real time documentation and not just listen to all the media "hype" you will learn that the actual effects of global warming are so small and so varying that it is hard to conclude that global warming has actually any true effect on the world today or will have a large effect in the future of our grand-childrens children at all. The real facts are completely different than what you hear...

You can look at the same pictures of the same ice cap melting and the rain forest growing that they show you on T.V. all as a way to capitivate an audience. You can listen to they're numbers and estimations of global warming and what "technically" could happen in the future. But you cannot honestly talk about global warming and how it is affecting our "fragile" environment without studying the REAL facts and not just believeing what you see on T.V. or hear on the news.

Answer 4

Your question makes little sense. international Warming is a lengthy time period climate challenge and your are speaking about well-known climate. And, low Sunspot interest is in simple terms the option, fairly than transforming into warming it leads to a lot less radiant skill hitting the earth. at the moment Sunspot interest is at historic lows, 2 years after the envisioned image voltaic minimum. If familiar kinds held sway we could continually be seeing extra. yet on condition that we may be able to do little about the carbon going into the ambience in the subsequent couple of a lengthy time period, any and all counter outcomes are welcome.

Answer 5

global warming causes increasse in temprature
which leads to melting of ice caps
this leads to increase in sea level
which leads to submergence of land

er....... sorry did not read the question properly

health it causes skin diseases and cancer
the animal kingdom some animals are not able to adapt to the climate change
environment submergence of land

Answer 6

No effect. All aspects of "change" that is attributed to global warming in the media can be explained by other factors.

Answer 7

www.climatecrisis.com - lots of info. Aztec should do some research there, if he can pull his head out of the sand.

ADDED: And for BeachLvr - you should follow your own advice and do some research. Quick - what's the significance of 370 ppm?

Answer 8

with the rise in water temp, many of the photoplankton are dying, and since they are the bottom of the food chain, all of the animals above them also suffer because their food sources die off.

Answer 9

It hasn't. Global warming is a myth.