A Survey of Global Warming Effects on Daily Living
We see fearful words occurring more and more in the headlines of our favorite news sites. Words like earthquake, tornado, tsunami, and hurricane strike fear into us if any of these are common near us or loved ones. Most of us know deep down that something catastrophic is occurring on a global scale, but we may not know what it is or what all of this means. This article will not answer that question for you; we will also look at is the fact that many of these natural disasters have correlative relationships with the global warming that has been monitored and increasingly mentioned by scientists over the last few years.
Recently, Hollywood has capitalized on the global warming theme. There are many new interesting movies for thrill-seekers about the catastrophe that could strike any moment from the effects of global warming on the polar icecaps and the oceans that encompass most of the world. The sprinklings of hypothetically possible truths within these movies give us all a bit of an extra adrenaline rush as we watch them.
Increasingly we read reports of scientists, and more often politicians, warning us of being on the verge of making irreversible changes to the world's climate. Some say it could even make it uninhabitable for human beings. Given that there isn't much room on the current space station network, and also that most of us like seeing such aspects of nature as birds and rivers, these can be very frightening thoughts.
If you do a search, you can read about many of the known causes of this global warming phenomenon we are witnessing all around us. Some of these causes are not even caused by mankind. Many of these causes are blamed on mankind. The reality of it is that it is the complex interactions of mankind with nature that seems to tip the balances on global warming. You can see how man has recently contributed many things to the environment for which nature was not prepared to provide a healthy balance. Some of these topics for research include vehicle emissions, industrial pollution, deforestation, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
The natural disasters we see around us are increasing at rates that seem to indicate some sort of mathematical correlation to the growth in global warming. As the ozone layer decreases we see such seemingly unrelated things as earthquakes increasing. How can these be related? It is hard for even science to say because of the complexity of interactions. Even corre/p>
What we do know is that pollution one place causes effects to other places. For example, air pollution doesn't just make the air bad, it also opens a hole in the ozone. The hole in the ozone causes icecaps to melt and ocean currents to change. Heated ocean waters cause El Nino. Fish are dying or migrating to new areas. Melted icecaps are correlated to higher sea levels and hurricanes, thought it is not completely clear how the interactions take place. So all of that starts with just air pollution. You can likely conclude then that landfills and ocean pollution could have similar far reaching interactions.
Back to what we know more directly about global warming is the concept of the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has been a popular scientific theory for several decades, but new science has shown it may actually have correlation to the measurable global warming taking place. The greenhouse effect is where air pollutants break up the ozone layer so that more of the sun's rays penetrate the atmosphere and heat the earth.
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