How does global warming affect peoples lives?

Answer 1

Extra warmth in the atmosphere is extra energy, which is changing the climate. This will affect people and nations.

• Ice melting
• Sea levels rising flooding coastal lands and cities
• Fiercer storms and tidal surges
• Heat waves killing people, animals and birds
• Changing wind currents making places colder, as well as warmer
• Blizzards
• Oceans becoming more acid, damaging coral and other marine life
• Changing weather disrupting food chains and animal habitats

Answer 2

Answer 1:

Many human population centers cluster around coastal areas, which will be subject to flooding as glacial ice raises ocean levels. We have already witnessed the spread of tropical diseases to higher latitudes. More work remains to tie the 2012 drought to global warming--that may just be an anomaly. We expect some of the ensuing years to be a little cooler than the record setting 2005/2010 years, but fewer of them as global averages continue to climb.

Droughts increase incidences of crop failures, raising food prices and making poor people just a wee bit more hungry. Property damage from increased storms and hurricanes also has an impact on people.

Answer 2:

To much heat can cause drought and famine in a country.

Answer 3

Global warming changes the weather pattern making some places warmer and, perhaps surprisingly, some colder. For example, it is believed that oceanic currents like the Gulf Stream, which brings warm equatorial water to the Northern Atlantic may stop (or even reverse). El Nino, in the Southern Pacific is another example. The Gulf Stream would result in the United Kingdom and Ireland experiencing colder weather.

One major problem with global warming is likely to be the speed with which the changes are and will continue to take place. Although the earth has gone through climate change before it has been on a relatively long time-scale. This has allowed plant and animals time to adapt - in the latter case, by migration, even. Most of our food production would be threatened by large climatic changes.

Another issue is that melt water from the polar regions and glaciers will reduce the salinity of ocean water. This will impact on sea life.

Answer 4

• Decrease in food supply. If temperatures shall increase by 1 or 2 degree celcius, areas previously covered with vegetation may become deserts.
• Rise in sea levels. Global warming will cause the ice caps in the North and South Poles to melt. The result is higher sea levels which may cause low-lying areas like Netherlands and parts of China like Shanghai to be submerged.

Answer 5

Global warming causes ice caps at the poles of the Earth to melt, and because the ice at the poles is mostly freshwater, it disrupts the chemistry of the sea, and the sea plays a major role in determining what our weather is like. Different chemistry in seawater = changing climate on Earth = probably bad. Also, global warming makes it really hot, and, if it's allowed to spiral out of control, you'll fry to death. Duh.

Answer 6

It can cause more illnesses. People can start nose-bleeding or having heatstroke.