Threats of Global Warming
Monday, October 15th, 2007 by Global Warmer Subscribe To Our Feed
The threat of Global Warming is viewed by a few as a straightforward adjustment in the Earth’s climate that has varied over time anyway. Even when presented with known facts like the rise in levels of greenhouse gases, steady rise in temperatures in the 20th century, or the receding of glaciers, the uniqueness of these events are lost on them.
These ones seem to feel that even if there’s a trend, what does that mean for us exactly? Warmer summers? Maybe even longer ones? Who would hate that?
To understand what Global Warming will mean for us in the long run requires us looking past the current situation. It requires we take all the data we have now on how our Earth is being impacted and build on that, to imagine what may happen if how we solve our energy requirements and demands doesn’t change.
Greenhouse gases do not disappear. They will remain and build up in the atmosphere for years. There is no simple way to it - if we don’t change it will just get warmer. And finally, with all that additional warming in our atmosphere, the punch we’re going to feel will make the current events seem a tap on the shoulder.
A few of the worst case scenarios include continually high maximum temperatures -
- With damage to animals, crops, and local wildlife.
- With unmeetable demands on cooling systems.
- With tens of thousands of heat-related deaths. Already in 2003 about thirty thousand people died due to one of the warmest summers recorded.
- With increased heat added to the air, the extra energy intensifies storms like monsoons, typhoons, cyclones, and hurricanes. This leads to infectious diseases, loss of life, and loss of coastal ecosystems and corals. Katrina proved that.
- With increased lives of disease bearing insects and animals - more people will then become infected.
- With the reduction in the quality and quantity of fresh drinking water. Major droughts are happening already in underdeveloped countries. North America is encountering water restrictions on occasion. For example, one town on Vancouver Island, had to cancel all tourism for several days because of low water levels. Water needed to be trucked in for the local residents, leading to huge economic losses.
- With the loss and destruction of valuable forest to drought and fire.
- With uncontrolled wildfires - current examples include California and Australia.
Since we have already encountered some of these situations it should make people ’sit up’ and take note. Any one of these problems would be horrible to experience, but if we don’t pay attention to the signs we might find there will be a high price paid.
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