What are some of the apparent effects of global warming, also, does anyone know where I can find out more?

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Im making a youtube video, and I need some effects of global warming, help?

Answer 1

Melting glaciers.

Answer 2

The NASA website can provide excellent information on the warming on all nine planets in our solar system, and the measurements involved. I'd suggest starting there.

Answer 3

uh....it sends what could've been fairly normal people into paranoid masses of gelatinous  oooze.....plus it depends on which era of global warming you're talking about...(oh! did no one tell you this isn't the first warming scare we've had in history??)...sorry.  Just try and be calm..this too shall pass!

Answer 4

Everything is caused by global warming.

Answer 5

Here is an overview of predicted effects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_...

Observable effects include:

(Note: these are notes from some research I did a couple years ago, some figures may need to be updated)

Winter temperatures in Alaska have risen by an average of 6 degrees Celsius since the start of record-keeping

About 2.3 million acres of forests in Alaska and Canada have been killed by an epidemic of spruce bark beetles, whose numbers are usually controlled by cold winter temperatures and whose population has exploded due to warming.

Alaskan permafrost is melting for the first time in thousands of years, causing $35 million dollars of road and property damage every year as roads buckle and foundations sink. It also causes the phenomenon of "drunken forests" with leaning trees and "disappearing" lakes in which water once held in by the permafrost is simply sinking into the soil.

Sea ice is melting, allowing increased erosion of coast as shores normally protected from wave action for six months or more of every year are exposed to waves for longer and longer periods. Canada and Siberia have recorded losses of up to 40 meters per year in some coastal areas.

Greenland's ice sheet is melting so fast that water is running off it at a rate equivalent to the annual flow of the Nile River.

About 10,000 square kilometers of ice shelf have been lost in Antarctica in recent years, including the March 2002 collapse of the Larsen B ice shelf, which had been 200 meters thick, 500 billion tons, and larger in area than Luxembourg. (Skeptics are fond of pointing out that ice in increasing in some interior areas of Antarctica, as well as some mountain glaciers in California and elsewhere: this is due to increased precipitation caused by warmer air.)

Arctic ice has thinned over 40% in the last 30 years; an area 1 1/2 times the size of Wales is lost every year.

The Gobi Desert in China expanded by 20,230 square miles between 1994 and 1999 due to a combination of rising temperatures, drought, overgrazing, and deforestation.

Britain has seen a doubling of the amount of rain that came in the "heavy" category since the 1960's and an increase in the frequency of prolonged heavy rainfall events. During the major floods of September to December 2000, the rainfall total was the highest since records began in 1766.

In the 20th century, 16 of 21 "Great Floods" of major river basins worldwide occurred after 1950, in the middle latitudes, which are strongest affected by increased rainfall patterns, it was 7 out of 8.

In the summer of 2003, temperatures rose above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history in Britain; in Continental Europe, they reached the highest levels for at least 500 years. An estimated 22,000 to 35,000 people died heat-related deaths.

The average UK growing season is currently the longest since records were kept: from January 29 to December 21 in 2000

Over 70% of the world's sandy shorelines are retreating due to rising sea levels.

Rising ocean temperatures result in coral bleaching. In 1998, when rising temperatures were exacerbated by El Nino, 1/2 of the entire tropical reef ecosystem in the world was destroyed. In some areas, coral death rates were as high as 90%.

The total water loss of the world's mountain glaciers due to melt is 100 cubic kilometers per year, more than the volume of Lake Geneva.

Between 1912 and 2000, Mount Kenya lost 75% of its glaciers' surface area and Mount Kilimanjero lost 80%. The glaciers on Kilimanjero are at least 9,000 years old and it is estimated that they will be gone by 2015-2020 at their current rate of melting.

Glacier National Park lost 73% of its glacial cover between 1850 and 1993. Its original 150 glaciers are now down to 50.

In Alaska, 95% of glaciers are thinning and the rate has doubled since the mid-1990's

and the list could go on for quite some time.

Answer 6

Everything you would ever need to know about 'global warming' can be found right here in Yahoo Anwers.  You'll need to listen to the alarmist side to get the effects, I haven't noticed any and don't believe I ever will.

Answer 7

Green house gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.

5. Spread of disease

As northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them. Indeed some scientists believe that in some countries thanks to global warming, malaria has not been fully eradicated.

4. Warmer waters and more hurricanes

As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes. We saw in this in 2004 and 2005.

3. Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves

Although some areas of Earth will become wetter due to global warming, other areas will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will receive the worst of it, with more severe droughts also expected in Europe. Water is already a dangerously rare commodity in Africa, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will exacerbate the conditions and could lead to conflicts and war.

2. Economic consequences

Most of the effects of anthropogenic global warming won’t be good. And these effects spell one thing for the countries of the world: economic consequences. Hurricanes cause do billions of dollars in damage, diseases cost money to treat and control and conflicts exacerbate all of these.

1. Polar ice caps melting

The ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger.

First, it will raise sea levels. There are 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet. Luckily, that’s not going to happen all in one go! But sea levels will rise.

Second, melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt they will desalinate the ocean, or in plain English - make it less salty. The desalinization of the gulf current will “screw up” ocean currents, which regulate temperatures. The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area!

Third, temperature rises and changing landscapes in the artic circle will endanger several species of animals. Only the most adaptable will survive.

Fourth, global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone. Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight, much of which is relected back into space, further cooling Earth. If the ice caps melt, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.

Answer 8

well this is what we learned two years ago in fifth grade so i hope it helps lol

well the world is getting hotter and the weather is more unpredictable i think

and more natural disasters are happening

i know more but i am blanking out sorry

Answer 9

It is a scam ; look at Gore not even he believes in GW...

Answer 10

Visit this site. It gives answers in crisp language.

www.climatecrisis.net

Answer 11

1. More interference in oour lives by the idiots at the Useless Nations and our own politically correct government officials.

2. Al Gore is getting richer while proving what a hypocrite he is.

3. The world is getting cooler as it continues its NORMAL CYCLES.

4. Panic among the easily fooled and led blind masses.