The Effects of Global Warming on Climate, Crops and Human Health. Global warming is a serious world-wide problem that individuals like you need to confront and solve.
In order to prevent irreparable harm to not only the world’s climate, but also societies’ agriculture and your health, these devastating effects of global warming need to be dealt with now. There are many hazardous effects of global warming. Worldwide temperatures are steadily increasing and, as a result, record heat, intense floods and droughts, and food shortages have already hit many areas.
You, your family, and your friends need to do your part to prevent our planet from becoming unlivable in the near future. Dangerous Changes in Climate are Coming The most noticeable of the global warming effects, climate change is already taking place and has been for many years. Alarming rise in sea levels predicted: The average temperature of the Earth has been on a steady uphill climb ever since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when societies began burning fossil fuels for energy.
Climate change and agriculture. At the same time, agriculture has been shown to produce significant effects on climate change, primarily through the production and release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, but also by altering the Earth's land cover, which can change its ability to absorb or reflect heat and light, thus contributing to radiative forcing.
Land use change such as deforestation and desertification, together with use of fossil fuels, are the major anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide; agriculture itself is the major contributor to increasing methane and nitrous oxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere.[3] Impact of climate change on agriculture[edit] For each plant variety, there is an optimal temperature for vegetative growth, with growth dropping off as temperatures increase or decrease. Similarly, there is a range of temperatures at which a plant will produce seed. Outside of this range, the plant will not reproduce. Observed impacts[edit] Projections[edit] The American Economic Review, Vol. 89, No. 4 (Sep., 1999), pp. 1049-1052.
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Climate Change 2005 was officially the hottest year in recorded history, and global temperatures are the warmest in this millennium. The ice caps and glaciers are melting even faster than expected and hurricanes have increased in strength and frequency. The evidence is in. (From the National Academy of Sciences: Click here for Full Story) Pollution Five decades ago we were warned about climate change from burning fossil fuels. Sustainable Development The GENI Initiative focuses on a global strategy - the interconnection of power grids between nations, tapping abundant local and remote renewable energy resources.
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