The Effects

There are major effects that can lead to global warming.  Here are just a few.

• As northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them.
• As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes
• 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.
• It will raise sea levels.
• 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.
• Global Warming could snowball with the ice caps gone. They reflect sunlight, much of which is reflected 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.

• Rising temperatures could lead to the extinction of more than a million species for examples sea lions, polar bears, red foxes, many birds and fish, penguins, orangutan