10+Global+Warming+Effects

Global Warming Effects if Global Warming is not stoppedmedia type="youtube" key="oJAbATJCugs" height="254" width="232" align="right" Effects could happen later this century, if warming continues. Source for inormation []
 * Ice is melting around the globe, especially at Earth's north and south poles. Mountain glaciers, ice sheets covering West Antarctica and Greenland, and Arctic sea ice are all melting.
 * Researcher Bill Fraser has studied the decline of the Adélie penguins on Antarctica, where their numbers of breeding pairs have fallen from 32,000 to 11,000 in 30 years.
 * Sea level rise became faster over the last century.
 * Some butterflies, foxes, and alpine plants have moved farther north or to higher, cooler areas.
 * On average, precipitation such as rain and snowfall has increased globally.
 * Sea levels are expected to rise between 7 and 23 inches (18 and 59 centimeters) by the end of the century, and continued melting at the poles could add between 4 and 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters).
 * Hurricanes and other storms are likely to become stronger.
 * Floods and droughts will become more common. Rainfall in Ethiopia, where droughts are already common, could decline by 10 percent over the next 50 years.
 * Less fresh water will be available. If the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru continues to melt at its current rate, it will be gone by 2100, leaving thousands of people who rely on it for drinking water and electricity without a source of either.
 * Some diseases will spread, such as malaria carried by mosquitoes.
 * At the current rate of retreat, all of the glaciers in Glacier National Park will be gone by 2070.

What you can do: buy efficient lightbulbs, buy new hybrids or cars that save gas, turn off electricty when it is not needed,

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