2006-10-17 23:47:47 · 2 answers · asked by watismeaning 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
*The sea level will rise due to melting ice caps.
*Low lands will flood, islands will sink.
*The air quality will worsen.
*The global average temperature will increase. (The European heat wave of 2003 killed 22,000–35,000 people)
*Altered patterns in agriculture.
*Significant slowing of the ocean circulation that transports warm water to the North Atlantic.
*Large reductions in the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice Sheets.
*Accelerated global warming due to carbon cycle feedbacks in the terrestrial biosphere.
*Releases of terrestrial carbon from permafrost regions and methane from hydrates in coastal sediments.
*Causing more extreme weather (the number of major natural disasters has trebled since the 1960)
*Destabilization of local climates
*Acidification
*Spread of disease (Global warming is expected to extend the favourable zones for vectors conveying infectious disease such as malaria)
DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO GLOBAL WARMING. THE EARTH BELONGS TO ALL OF US.
2006-10-17 23:58:44 · answer #1 · answered by *azure* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be almost exactly like it is now. There is NO conclusive proof that global warming is anything un-natural.
2006-10-18 07:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by afsm666 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋