Global Warming Causes, Effects,
Information and Awarness
This website provides information and
articles on global warming and climate change and the various interrelated
issues we will face in the future, the solutions we may choose, the politics
involved. It is designed to give a basic introduction to the multifaceted
problems we face from global warming and climate change - crop failure, food
shortages, water shortages, rising seas, declining ice sheets, mass migrations,
water wars, acidic oceans and increased conflict on a planet with dwindling
resources and rising population. We are at a critical point in human
history. It is only through global warming awareness that we can hope to
change course intelligently. Due to necessity we will change our ways.
May it not come too late.
But the data just keep getting worse. The
news this fall that Arctic sea ice was melting at an off-the-charts pace and
data from Greenland suggesting that its giant ice sheet was starting to slide
into the ocean make even 450 look too high. Consider: We're already at 383 parts
per million, and it's knocking the planet off kilter in substantial ways. So,
what does that mean?
"We're having an increasing trend of odd years,"
said Michael MacCracken, a former top federal climate scientist, now
chief scientist at the Climate Institute in Washington. "Pretty soon odd
years are going to become the norm."
Most scientists agree that greenhouse gases from
fossil fuels have contributed to the warming of the planet in the past
few decades but have questioned whether a brighter Sun is also
responsible for rising temperatures.
Nine ways in which the Earth could be
tipped into a potentially dangerous state that could last for many
centuries have been identified by scientists investigating how quickly
global warming could run out of control. . . . . . .
The nine elements range from the melting of
polar ice sheets to the collapse of the Indian and West African monsoons. The
effects of the changes could be equally varied, from a dramatic rise in sea
levels that flood coastal regions to widespread crop failures and famine. Some
of the tipping points may be close at hand, such as the point at which the
disappearance of the summer sea ice in the Arctic becomes inevitable, whereas
others, such as the tipping point for the destruction of northern boreal
forests, may take several more decades to be reached.
Paris - The human population is living
far beyond its means and inflicting damage to the environment that could
pass points of no return, according to a major report being issued today
by the United Nations.
Climate change, the rate of extinction of
species, and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the threats
putting humanity at risk, according to the United Nations Environment Program in
its fourth Global Environmental Outlook since 1997.
"The human population is now so large that the
amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available at current
consumption patterns," Achim Steiner, the executive director of the Environment
Program, said in a telephone interview. Efficient use of resources and reducing
waste now are "among the greatest challenges at the beginning in of 21st
century," he said.
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