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Effects of Global Warming that are Happening Today

While you may not like Al Gore and notever before. They are moving to higher,
believe a single word he says, you do need tocooler  areas.
give him credit for bringing global warming
to the public eye. Global warming is a real- Precipitation such as rain and snowstorms
threat and threatens all of us regardless ofhas increased on average all across the
religion, race, or background. Sure, we'veworld.
all been aware of pollution and greenhouse
gasses. We just didn't know it was actually- The invasive Spruce bark beetles of Alaska
that  bad.have seen a boom in populations because of
twenty years of warmer than usual summers.
All of the most recent scientific dataThese insects have caused unheard of
confirms that the earth's climate is changingenvironmental damage by chewing up 4 million
at an alarmingly rapid pace. Globalacres  of  spruce  trees.
temperatures increased by about 1 degree
Fahrenheit over the course of the lastWhile the above effects can bee seen and
century, and it are only likely to rise evenfound now, there are other drastic events
more rapidly in coming decades. A thickeningthat we will soon witness if this trend
layer of carbon dioxide pollution traps heatcontinues. Some of these other effects which
in  the  atmosphere  causing  the phenomenon.can  happen  at  some point this century are:
Scientists say that unless we reduce our- Our sea levels are rising at a scary rate.
global warming emissions, average U.S.They are expected to rise between 7 and 23
temperatures will rise another 3 to 9 degreesinches just by the end of this century. If
by the turn of the century with far-reachingwe cannot stop global warming and it
effects and damaging consequences. Many ofcontinues, add an additional four to eight
these changes have already begun. Someinches to that number from our polar caps
impacts from increasing temperatures aremelting.
already  happening.
- Hurricanes and other high-powered storms
- First off, ice is melting worldwide, mainlyare likely to become more common and even
in the Arctic and Antarctic waters. Thisstronger. The number of category 4 and 5
also includes mountain glaciers and icestorms has greatly increased over the past 35
sheets covering West Antarctica andyears, along with ocean temperature. Think
Greenland.Hurricane Katrina and multiply that by ten
continually  throughout  the  summer  season.
- Researchers and scientists have recently
tracked the decline of Adélie penguins at- Deadly floods and epic droughts will become
Antarctica and discovered their numbers havemore common ever single year. The annual
fallen from 32,000 breeding pairs to justprecipitation of the United States increased
11,000  in  a  little  less  than  30  years.between 5 and 10 percent since the early 20th
century, largely the result of heavy
- The rise of the sea level was faster overdownpours in some areas. The national
the last century than any other recorded datadrought between the years 1999 and 2002 was
we  had.one of the three most extensive droughts
recorded by scientists in the last 40 years
- Much of the United States has warmed, infor  the  U.S.
some areas by as much as 4 degrees
Fahrenheit. Many had their hottest seasons- Some diseases like malaria and yellow fever
or  days  on  record  in  the  late  1990s.will spread from disease-carrying mosquitoes
that are spreading as climate shifts allow
- Some species of butterflies, foxes, andthem to survive in formerly inhospitable
alpine plants that are inclined towards coldareas.
weather have been found farther north than



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