Major physical processes and events have been happening to the Earth throughout its long history and will keep on happening.
Some physical processes are continuous, taking place over a very long periods of time. Other physical processes take very little time by comparison: we humans have chosen to call some of those "catastrophic events" because they seem to have taken place with hardly any warning.
For the past 4,000 million years the outer crust of the Earth has been changing. Its tectonic plates, continually move around forming continents which then break up and re-form in other configurations. The friction caused by the sliding and subduction of the edges of plates against one another causes mountain chains to be thrown up and fiery volcanoes to spew out new soil and smokey, noxious gases which pollute the atmosphere.
65 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped out by a major event. It was probably a huge meteorite from outer space which suddenly hit the Earth. The resulting air pollution caused thousands of years of continuing global darkness and bitter cold because heat and light from our Sun could not reach the surface until the pollution was eventually absorbed by the Earth.
An ice sheet on Antarctica began to grow some 20 million years ago. The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat).
The Earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland ice sheet, the Antarctic ice sheet and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. It is likely that people lived in the temperate zones of the Earth before that last glacial period began, along with other animals and plants. After the maximum had occurred and the glaciers receded, modern humans were able to migrate from a belt of land around the Earth's Equator towards its poles.
Ø The fuel we burn, especially oil and coal, contributes to climate change, which has the potential to destroy our way of life.
Ø Global warming can be the cause of hurricanes, and droughts.
Ø More frequent and powerful cyclones and hurricanes, more frequent and intense floods and droughts are clear indications that climate change has already begun.
Ø global warming is also responsible for causing global glacier decline, sea level rise, scarcity of freshwater resources.
Ø Extreme weathers and weather related events such as flooding, drought, wild fires, heat waves, and tropical cyclones are expected to occur even more frequently and to become even more intense
Ø Extreme and rapid changes in temperature would affect the length of various seasons
Ø The fuel we burn, especially oil and coal, contributes to climate change, which has the potential to destroy our way of life.
Extra heat in the oceans may affect the movement and direction of the ocean currents. the Gulf Stream, which brings warm water to Western Europe, might cool or fail, bringing cooler conditions to Britain and France.
It's too early to know. There are various unusual rainfall happenings going on around the world, floods in Australia, floods in Thailand etc. These might be caused by global warming, but they might just be unusual rainfall. Climate change takes time to be measured, after at least ten or twenty years, perhaps more. Weather changes every day.
Clouds are one of the big unknowns about global warming as they can have a range of effects, warmer temperatures caused by global warming will result in higher rates of evaporation and therefore will result in higher cloud cover. in turn higher cloud cover can increase night time temperatures by acting as insulation and preventing heat escaping the atmosphere during the night. At the same time clouds can reflect sunlight resulting in reduced daytime temperatures. the local impact of clouds will depend on the humidity of an area.
Strictly speaking there is no other name for global warming."The whole earth heating up" might be another name.Global warming is causing climate change, so many people think they are both the same, so they say:"Climate change is another name for global warming", but they are not really the same.
if global warming happen right now.....the ice will melt and cause a floods and other damages. all the continents might flood if all the ice melt. the continent that will have flood the most is the continents that is near to the north.
No. While global warming might affect tornado activity, tornadoes themselves are an end product of weather and climatic activity, not a cause.
Global warming would have no affect on the location of the poles.
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The country being hot today is weather, not climate. It might have something to do with global warming, but it might not. However, if the weather is always getting hotter, after some years this becomes the climate of a place.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
In 30 years, global warming may affect is by changing our climate. This will change many things, such as vegetation and energy. It may also increase skin cancer.
Global warming may cause the ocean to rise. If the ocean rises, then many places that are below sea level will flood.
Global warming will head to Antarctica (south pole
It's not possible to say accurately what will happen to Breckinridge County in the future. Climate changes over the next decade might be hard to attribute to global warming. Ten years is a short time in climatic terms. Global warming is happening all over the world. Some places will be drier than before. Other places will be wetter than before. Warming causes weather, so more warming is certainly going to affect the weather. Low lying countries and coastlines and cities will be in danger from rising sea levels. Warming oceans expand, and this is causing the rise firstly. Melting glaciers and ice caps are a secondary reason. Places too cold for agriculture may be able to be farmed, but much of the present croplands may have to adapt or be abandoned if global warming continues.
The effects on global warming on the bioshere are snow everywhere and cold days... we might even freeze to death... global warming is so COLD.