Where specifically does global warming affect on earth?

Question

i know its EVERYWHERE on EARTH but besides anarctica where else does it affect the most and why?

Answer 1

You're right when you say that everywhere is affected but soimetimes it can be difficult to quantify just how much one particular area is affected.

We can for example, look at global temperatures over the last few years and this shows that everywhere has been warmer than normal with the exception of some parts of the Pacific Ocean, some parts of Antarctica and some parts of central South America.

In the long terms it's the polar regions that will be most affected by rising temperatures but as Antarctica has a permenant population of 0 and the Arctic is sparsely polulated there will be little total direct consequences in these areas. For the individuals living in the Arctic region the consequences will be severe, it's just that there aren't that many.

Many of the African nations and some of the Asian nations will be the most severely affected, not necessarily because they will witness the highest temperature changes but because they're the most vulnerable to global climate change.

A small rise in sea levels for example will inundate much of Bangladesh forcing 60 million people out of their homes, nowhere on Earth do so many people live in areas that are so vulnerable to rising sea levels. The same sea level rise would have a far lesser impact in the US or Europe.

It's these same countries that are most affected by flood, drought, famine, desertification, deforestation, spread of disease etc.

In the developed world we have good agricultural land that can support a variety of crops but in the African and Asian nations the soil is of a much poorer quiality and they are limited in what can be grown, a small climatic shift can have disasterous consequences. Here we'd just grow a different crop and import where needs be, this isn't always practical elsewhere.

We're also better placed to mitigate many of the effects of global warming - we have the money and resources to limit the effects, this isn't so in the poorer countries.

Answer 2

Brits should sell supertanker-loads of water to LA! Quickly, before global cooling sets in!! The Historical evidence is that the climate can go a lot hotter, and has, without any bad effects. It always heads down quickly when it gets to a certain point, and bottoms out and stays really cold a long long time. Al Gore will have to hollow out an iceberg for his concerts on Global Warming then. Irreversably unstable would be a condition where the tempertures oscillate around a central point, or where my striking a match sets off enough extra heat that the temperature rises a long ways rapidly, and then perhaps plunges at nightfall unless I light another match. Or suddenly changes to a different average temperature for no apparent cause. Hard to plan if you go to sleep with the AC and 2 fans on, and when you wake up there is a foot of CO2 snow on your bed...and this instability goes on and on forever. We can conceiveably mess things up so bad the temperature rises to boiling, and all life except a few bacteria are cooked, but I do not think that is likely, However, if we go the other way, trying to cap global warming, we could throw ourselves right back into an ice age! Way early. Life would survive, but Man might not. Al Gore might by flying from place to place along the equator until his plane ran out of fuel.

Answer 3

So far it's only noticeably detectable in the Northern Hemisphere. If it continues the way it has in the past there may be more agricultural land available.

Mostly it makes the planet more prosperous during the warming trends. The earth was in a cooling trend from 1940 to 1979, and it's been warming since then, so this warming trend may last another 10 or 20 years.

Answer 4

the answer to the question is huge and you're right, it does effect the entire earth. It does more then change antartica, temp will change everywhere, rainfall amounts can change, the amount of tropical storms will change, literally every part of our lives will change. I seriously suggest reading an inconvient truth or even watching the documentary on it. It will answer your question and add more light to the things i've said.

Answer 5

if your area peak summer weather is 45 degrees now, with global warming catching up, it go upto 55 degrees later. whether human being accustomed only to manage a temperature of 45 degrees in a particular place, can they survive with 55 degree temperature. hence it will affect everywhere. not necessarily one place.

Answer 6

recently a number of reports have been published. algae which whales and alot of other creatures depend on is leaving central waters and growing closer to the poles. they found whales confused and upset by this recently.
also trees which never grew in cooler climates are moving north toward them. also anemonies and shell fish are moving to northern climates which has never been seen before. when you see things like algae move, you know something serious is going on, because so many creatures depend on them, or feed on the creatures which depend on them.

Answer 7

It's really bad in sub-Saharan Africa right now. They've had years of drought. It's about to get bad in the US gulf coast and Florida again, too with the start of hurricane season.

Answer 8

The rainforests are dwindling because of forest fires.
And the temperature of bodies of water are rising, while there is more drought, killing fish by this degree, or smothering fish with red tide, and communities 'run off'. (fertilizers, cleaning agents, fuel.)

Answer 9

the arctic. its a very fragile ecosystem up there. Everything depends on each other in a complex chain.

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming