Global Warming Effects

Global Warming Effects

Global warming is one of the main problems that endanger the ecosystem of our planet. Based on over a century of research, scientists ensure that human activity can be one of the main causes of these variations.

The lack of consciousness among the people and their attitude regarding this topic is careless. There are many people around the globe that do not believe in global warming and they continue to claim that this is just a government’s game to scare people. They argue that scientists can’t even predict the weather next week, so how can they predict 100 years from now?

According to Richard S. Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, express that: “he dismisses the existence of a connection between the rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide and global mean temperatures. This is a key point, for if global temperature increases do not depend on an increase in carbon dioxide, then plans to reduce the amount of it entering the atmosphere, as proposed in the Kyoto Protocol, are pointless.” (Lindzen).

The truth is that the release of huge amounts of gases since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, and the contamination coming from industries, affected the planet’s atmosphere; as a result, the air temperate and the surface temperature of the ocean waters, are melting the glaciers and obligating animals to migrate from their habitats.

For decades arguments have raged over whether human activities cause changes in climate or not. Recent research, according to NASA, proves that the increment of atmosphere gasses such as carbon dioxide that hold onto heat are warming the ocean and earth’s surface. As it shows in the Table annexed *, 2016 is the year when most heat records have been beaten, showing January 2016 as the most abnormal month in history with temperatures 23 Fahrenheit degrees above normal in some parts of Arctic. (NASA)

From 2014 to 2015, the high ocean temperatures damaged 16 percent of the world's coral reefs. This represents millions of habitats destroyed due to global warming, impacting the ocean's ecosystem where over 4000 species of fish make their home. As mention on The Gale Encyclopedia of Science," water temperature is an important environmental influence on the growth of stony corals. Typically, a water temperature of 74–78°F (23–26°C) is most conducive to coral growth, and temperatures must generally remain above 67°F (19°C) throughout the year. Global warming is having a disastrous impact on coral reefs worldwide by causing water temperatures to transgress these narrow bounds." (Gale, p1055-1062)

Definitively, it is hard to dispute that the earth's climate is not getting warmer. We don't need to travel the world to see these changes, they are happening in front of our eyes. We are watching the news every day; we can see how glaciers are melting, how the sea level is increasing, affecting islands and coast cities. As the air temperature rises, wet places, like the Amazon jungle in Brazil, tend to get wetter and dry places, like the Sahara desert in Africa, tend to be dryer. The levels of atmosphere's water-holding capacity increase along with global