Global Warming
Global warming is the increase in the
average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation. Global surface temperature increased 0.74 ± 0.18 °
C (1.33 ± 0.32 °
F) during the last century.
[1][A] The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that increasing
greenhouse gas concentrations resulting from
human activity such as
fossil fuel burning and
deforestation caused most of the observed temperature increase since the middle of the 20th century.
[1] The IPCC also concludes that variations in natural phenomena such as
solar radiation and
volcanoes produced most of the warming from
pre-industrial times to 1950 and had a small cooling effect afterward.
[2][3] These basic conclusions have been
endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of science,
[B] including all of the
national academies of science of the
major industrialized countries.
[4] A small number of
scientists dispute the consensus view.
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What are the causes?
Global warming is caused by several causes such as pollution from factories, carbon dioxide from rotting trees, the burning of coal, natural gasses and fossil fuels lead to methane travelling into the Earth's atmosphere any transportation vehicles, water vapour, and many other little things, which contribute to make global warming even worse.
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http://www.macgregoss.eq.edu.au/qldwebchall/gwi/causes.html#top2What are the effects?
Increasing global temperatures are causing a broad range of changes. Sea levels are rising due to thermal expansion of the ocean, in addition to melting of land ice. Amounts and patterns of precipitation are changing. The total annual power of hurricanes has already increased markedly since 1975 because their average intensity and average duration have increased (in addition, there has been a high correlation of hurricane power with tropical sea-surface temperature).
Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of other extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and tornadoes. Other effects of global warming include higher or lower agricultural yields, further glacial retreat, reduced summer stream flows, species extinctions. As a further effect of global warming, diseases like malaria are returning into areas where they have been extinguished earlier.
Although global warming is affecting the number and magnitude of these events, it is difficult to connect specific events to global warming. Although most studies focus on the period up to 2100, warming is expected to continue past then because carbon dioxide (chemical symbol CO2) has an estimated atmospheric lifetime of 50 to 200 years. For a summary of the predictions for the future increase in temperature up to 2100, see
here .
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