Monday, May 26, 2008

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Global Warming and it's Effects

"Global Warming refers to the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation."-wikipedia.


It's not just global warming sprout out of nowhere, it has age from peoples way of life since the World War II. It's biggest effect is climate change, here in the Philippines we have two seasons because we are in the tropical region of the globe. One which is dry season and other is rainy or wet season.

At present we could observe and feel the effect of Global Warming. Dry season usually starts October until June, and the wet season during the rest of the year. Now, it's unpredictable sometimes we have a long dry season or sometimes we have a long wet season. This is not the time to enjoy because we will have a long summer to go the beaches, we are in a critical point. Diseases are spreading rapidly for example, mosquitoes that transmit diseases such as malaria and dengue fever to extend their ranges and increase both their biting rate and their ability to infect humans. Humans with heart diseases, asthma and other illnesses will be affected by it, worst effect is lost of life, because they could not easily cope with the sudden change in the climate.

Yet another effect is Ice Age era. Green house gases trapped the sun beam reflection of excess sunlight to the earth, that's why the polar ice caps melts mostly in the north pole.

In quick summary, if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a full-blown return of the last ice age - in a period as short as 2 to 3 years from its onset - and the mid-case scenario would be a period like the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.by Thom Hartmann

Conveyor belt acts as conveyor of warm shallow current and cold and salty deep current circulating the earth's ocean. The more polar ice caps that would melt it would weaken or worst stop permanently the circulation of the belt, because warm shallow current cannot undergo it's normal process because cold and salty deep current is settled in the bottom ocean. Atlantic Ocean is where ice age would start. Now people near that area is experiencing it's effect.

The effects of the Global Warming is uncountable it greatly affects not only us humans but all living things that inhabits the earth. Lets us all protecting not only ourselves but also for others. Be educated about it and share your knowledge to everyone and important "RRR" reduce, resuse and recycle.