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Global Warming is caused by the actions of humans:

  • During the past 250 years we have been burning more and more fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). This is releasing extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
  • We have also been cutting down many of the rainforests and other forests that absorb carbon dioxide.
  • This means that extra carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases, like methane) are continually being added to the atmosphere.
  • These extra greenhouse gases are holding back more and more of the sun's heat in the atmosphere and causing global warming - the warming all over the earth. And this is causing climate change.

Possible effects of global warming include:

  • drought,
  • violent and severe storms,
  • frequent flooding due to polar ice meltdown,
  • loss of organisms natural habitats,
  • torrential/heavy rainfall,
  • rapid spread of disease,
  • competition for survival between animals and human,
  • water pollution and decrease in ocean salinity,
  • new species invasion,
  • migration,
  • increased species diversity, and
  • triggering of natural and man-made disasters.
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