Global warming predictions are not reassuring

Added: 03/19/2006

Global warming predictions are drought, disease, floods, and lost ecosystems. Climate change predictions are not appealing either.Researchers say that gradual global warming triggers a sudden shift in the earth's climate, causing parts of the world to dramatically heat up or cool down in the span of a few years. The worst global warming predictions are large world uninhabitable areas, massive food and water shortages, and, consequently, migrations.

Global warming is an acute problem as well as air and water pollution, noise and sound pollution. Environmentalists and scientists are concerned about this phenomenon and their global warming predictions are not reassuring. Global warming effects have already begun and if we do not take any measures to cut global warming we will suffer from it. Global warming predictions are drought, disease, floods, and lost ecosystems. Climate change predictions are not appealing either.

Although local temperatures fluctuate naturally, over the past 50 years the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. And experts think the trend is accelerating: the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990. But higher temperature is not just high temperature; it causes damage in different part of the whole world - flood in Thailand in December 2004, Katherine hurricane in the USA in 2005, heat waves along Europe and India, and more. These abnormal environmental phenomena caused thousands deaths. And in what scientists regard as an alarming sign of events to come, the area of the Arctic's perennial polar ice cap is declining at the rate of 9 percent per decade.

Researchers say that gradual global warming triggers a sudden shift in the earth's climate, causing parts of the world to dramatically heat up or cool down in the span of a few years. The worst global warming predictions are large world uninhabitable areas, massive food and water shortages, and, consequently, migrations.

Global warming is a complex phenomenon, and its full-scale impacts are hard to predict far in advance. But each year scientists learn more about how global warming is affecting the planet, and many agree that certain consequences are likely to occur if current trends continue. Besides the mentioned above global warming predictions, scientists name melting glaciers, early snowmelt and severe droughts that will cause more dramatic water shortages in the American West; warmer sea surface temperatures that will fuel more intense hurricanes in the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf coasts; rising sea levels that will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern seaboard, in Florida, and in other areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico; and extinction of many species of plants and animals.

In order to fight against global warming we should know the causes of it. The main one is pollution produced by vehicles and plants. Coal-burning power plants are the largest source of carbon dioxide pollution. Automobiles are the second largest source. It is the good news: technologies exist today to make cars that run cleaner and burn less gas, modernize power plants and generate electricity from nonpolluting sources, and cut our electricity use through energy efficiency. We should just put these technologies for building cleaner cars and more modern electricity generators into widespread use. We can increase our reliance on renewable energy sources such as wind, sun and geothermal. And we can manufacture more efficient appliances and conserve energy.

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