How does global warming affect people?

Question

Please give me 3 specific ways global warming affects people.
Also please give me 3 specific (meaning a lot of details!) global warming affects the environment.

Yes this is homework, but thanks to those who have help, anything will help :).

Answer 1

This sounds suspiciously like a homework assignment, so I'm not going to give direct answers. Here are a few remarkable quotations, and resources so that you can look up more information from reliable sources.

“It’s not hard to make the connection between climate change and instability, or climate change and terrorism.”
“We will pay for this one way or another,” he said. “We will pay to reduce greenhouse gas emissions today, and we’ll have to take an economic hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll…. There is no way out of this that does not have real costs attached to it. That has to hit home.”
---General Anthony Zinni, US Marine Corps (Ret.)
Former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

"[I]t is wrong to blame any one event such as Katrina specifically on global warming.... What we need to discuss is not what caused Katrina, but the likelyhood that global warming will make hurricanes even worse in future." Stefan Rahmstorf, PhD. et al.

"Projected climate change-related exposures are likely to affect the health status of millions of people,
particularly those with low adaptive capacity, through:
• increases in malnutrition and consequent disorders, with implications for child growth and development;
• increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts;
• the increased burden of diarrhoeal disease;
• the increased frequency of cardio-respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground level ozone related to climate change; and,
• the altered spatial distribution of some infectious disease vectors. [Highly Likely]"
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Report, Summary for Policymakers
--note that climate change can produce both droughts and floods. Wet areas will likely get wetter, and dry ones drier. In some places, like California, you can have more floods _and_ drought, because more water comes as rain that floods in winter, not snow that melts and fills the rivers in summer.

"Snow is the essential ingredient in winter sports, and ski areas around the country are concerned that global warming could have a serious effect on their business. So they’re taking action to fight the problem on many fronts." keepwintercool.org

Answer 2

How global warming affects people?
1. It gives the media something to scare people about.
2. It gives Al Gore a reason to make a movie.
3. It will result in higher taxes, higher food costs, and more laws against business and individuals designed to prevent something that occurs naturally.

How does global warming affect the environment?
1. More corn will have to be grown to provide for more ethanol which will deplete the nitrogen in the ground. This in turn will cause farmers to fertilize the ground more causing more chemicals to get into the water supply through run-off.
2. The increased use of nitrogen fertilizer will give rise to more meth labs being built due to the ease of access to it. The meth labs will cause more pollution than the coal burning electric generation stations.

Answer 3

global warming effects people because what happens is:

1) Ice caps in the north melt and they are our source of fresh water. more people will go thirsty and the sea water level will rise up meaning continents will start flooding that are close to the water. ex: Netherlands, Manhatten. This will cause people to be homeless due to the flooding.

2)Costs everyone more money. If it gets so hot, people will use more air conditioning and they use more energy and thus, more money.

3) Resources. Because of the heat rising, animals will begin to go up north for colder climates and will eventually go extinct because the temperature is not livable. Ex: salmon used to be on the boast of B.C and is not farther up near Alaska.

hope that helped!

Answer 4

Well it will kill people and the environment... cause of global warming half of our country will be underwater and even more counrtys around the world. Just think disney world, The big apple, and lots more will be underwater. People will die, and the earth will get hotter. Even animals will die and maybe even become instict. Like polar bears :(

Answer 5

do your own homework! global warming change the surface of this planet for a serious long time, and thats all there is too it.

Answer 6

Gross effects don't influence humans too much yet.But where are all the honeybees?Hmmmm.