Global Warming- A serious Threat

Global warming refers to a rise (rather a long term rise) in average temperatures of Earth’s climate. As humans life depend fully on earth and its atmosphere so this rise in temperature means a direct effects on lives of the people.

Global warming destrou everything in the world.

Here comes some of the smattering  of the effects of global warming like,  flooding in lowland coastal areas which may occur due to the rise in the sea levels . Increase in water level results in melting of glaciers which were once covered with ice sheets now melting due to the high temperatures and this heavy downpours flows to become the part of water bodies.  Thus making them overflow and submerges the dry land nearby. This land is a habitat for various livings which may include human as well as animals. Hence flooding there results in their deaths (of those who didn’t manage to evacuate the area) so may either drown or become the victim of water born diseases like diarrhea. Or other diseases which might occur due to the flood water like, malaria and dengue, pneumonic plague. It will damage their farms too. Mumbai India, which is a home to more than 1.8 million is facing the effects of floods due to the melting of glaciers as estimated that by 2050 it will leave major parts of the city underwater so you can estimate how many lives would be effected. Disruption  of habitat of sea will occur too ,like it will destroy fisheries, coral reefs and Alpine meadows could drive many plant and animal species to extinction more like in Maldives clustered in the Indian Ocean is made up of a series of atolls—ring-shaped islands formed from coral. Predictions are made that Arctic is likely to be ice free by 2050.

Global warming is a serious threat

Changing weather patterns all around the globe, is another effect of global warming. Warming modifies rainfall patterns, amplifies coastal erosion, lengthens the growing season in some regions, melts ice caps and glaciers, and alters the ranges of some infectious diseases. Some of these changes are already occurring. Like for example  with increasing temperatures, however, significant snowmelt continues to shorten the season for winter sports—in 2017, it was 38 days shorter than it was back in 1960, Time reports. Moreover in Yamal Peninsula, Russia the permafrost melts, the weather becomes increasingly unpredictable, and the vital winter season shortens. In the winter of 2013, unusually warm temperatures brought rain to the Peninsula, which then froze and covered the pastured in a thick layer of ice; the reindeer couldn't dig through the ice to find food, resulting in tens of thousands of the animals starving to death. So here is the proof that how it effects animals as well.

Sometimes this high temperature leading to high evaporation may have different effects, includes stronger hurricanes or typhoons or cyclones, more rainfall and reducing water in water bodies. Low water means less water available for use like domestic, industrial or agricultural. Droughts are another results occur when their no water available for evaporation and condensation hence no precipitation, this means people may suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Dead Sea has bear its consequences, shrinking at a rate of around one feet a year; the body of water has already lost one-third of its surface area. Hot climate of Middle East make it difficult to replenish so according to the estimates by the experts sea will be completely dry by 2050.

Surprisingly humans themselves are contributing to all this by their own acts. One in this list is Fossil fuels, including coal, oil and natural gas. As all of these contains carbon thus when burnt in power stations to create electricity, it releases carbon dioxide into the air rising carbon levels in atmosphere. It produces up to 2 billion tons of (Co2) every year. Carbon dioxide absorbs heat, when Earth reflects back the heat to the atmosphere carbon dioxide acts as a shield and it prevent this radiation from getting lost so this way increasing average temperatures this is why it is known as a greenhouse gas and causes global warming. Moreover release from car exhaust also contributes to it through burning of oil (petrol). It’s also forming soot.