it is Global ,hence the name from pole to pole .
and even countries who are effected less directly will be in trouble indirectly ,because their food come from countries thgat are in the middle of things
Global warming is a very complex collection of many effects
this text only covers some aspects of global warming ,mainly agriculture i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification
water and air polution such as caused by
industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories,
and all of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions
there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms
climate change is caused in great parts by desertification ,and most desertification is caused by man
the thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up.and this is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions
DEFORESTATION
in the past
the Building of the Spanish Armada deforrested Spain
the Phoenician trading fleet turned Lebanon in a dessert
Ganges Khan put everything to the sword and torch, then filled the wells with sand,
the sun finished of the job and whole countries turned to wastelands.
Today ,
Slash and burn destroys the protective vegetation (which helps to form the soil ),
leaving it open to the Sun ,and then ,wind and, water erosion.
The Plough turns the soil ,killing micro-biotic life (essential to soil building) and accelerates the drying out .
Pressures of the :vehicles, cattle and rain impact brings the salt to the surface.
Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .
Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.
and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,Farmers
are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
and plowing more and more unstable lands going into the jungles and onto mountain slopes
expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .
Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest
in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification and some have died as a result
,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and most of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were few desserts.
collectively this planet is drying up ,
each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss
and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.
Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.
The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.
Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million
In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .
RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter
Global warming could be slowed down to some extent,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,
At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where,instead of just some third world countries Source(s) here are a 100 ways to help
http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...
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2007-04-19 18:17:58
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answered by Anonymous
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The most obvious factor that everyone points to is the increasing carbon dioxide in the air as a result of people burning millions of tons of natural gas, oil, and especially coal.
There is no evidence that warming will cause more storms or floods. That is just political hype.
The heat will not be dangerously high. Just a few degrees.
It is the whole world.
We are all effected by it. I am not sure what you mean by, "at stake".
It will not strangle our lives at all. The Earth goes through natural warming and cooling periods all the time. These periods last thousands or millions of years. None of the past natural warming periods has been harmful and the next one, even if it is artificially caused, will also not be harmful.
2007-04-19 16:05:30
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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Heres the REAL technology in the back of "Warming": If actually we're rising from an ice age as we have been taught in grade institution that implies (ignoring for the second the entire armloads of printouts charts and gigabytes of Datasets) we're WARMING and feature been for a few thousand years humps and bumps within the charts as a result of Sunspots and sun flares however. We even had the "Little Ice age" as a result of thermohaline anomalies within the 1300-1700 generation, absolutely no longer "warming" so we do revel in variants. The Vostok Co2 ice middle analyses and next Tschumi-Stauffer local weather stories exhibit obviously we've got bloodless scorching cycles and their accompanying Co2 variants on one hundred,000 12 months periods. Milankovich elliptical orbit results are inflicting those Hot/Cold cycles. The integration of sunspot and sun flare contribution to local weather difference simply provides extra humps and bumps to the graphs and extra snakes to the prediction barrel. General technology has for 1000's of years supplied us a local weather stories OVERVIEW achieving again over 6 million years, however now we are facing doubtful arguments founded on information going again lower than part 1 years (the Gore fraud) obscuring the longer term photograph uncovered via historical approved clinical local weather study. Earth’s orbit isn't a best circle, it varies in a cyclic ellipses over those one hundred,000 12 months cycles (Malkovich). Now right me if I’m mistaken but when the earth will get nearer then additional from the solar wouldn’t the Solar radiant vigor achieving Earths floor develop and curb commensurately? A rational character can even count on an immediate dating? Common experience and fundamental physics says Earths Climate goes to difference with those variants in radiation values. “Global Warming” isn't a fantasy, this can be a very historical clinical truth only in the near past resurrected to scare persons into allowing Marxist Liberals to wield extra political vigor. The warming cooling cycles are flawlessly usual and can hold it doesn't matter what guy does.
2016-09-05 17:55:43
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answered by ? 4
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65 million years ago, a giant meteor hit Earth and caused extremely hostile weather for all living things for long time. nature did recover from the event eventually. but it did so after wiping out the most dominant group of living creatures - the dinosaurs.
even if global warming does get worse, eventually nature will recover, as it did before. but it might wipe us out in the process, just like the dinosaurs.
2007-04-19 17:46:46
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answered by anon_j 1
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don't believe that humans are causing global warming. Did you know that humans only produce around 1/5 of the total CO2 in the world. The other sources are things such as volcanoes(which produce just about the same amount of CO@ as humans.)
What will the liberals say next after we switch to solar cars and global warming is still going on. I know what they will say " We must plug up the volcanoes to reduce CO2 emmissions."
2007-04-19 18:06:21
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answered by andy c 1
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