Global Warming

So if global warming gets too out of hand, the earth's entire ecological system could be overturned. Why? Because of one of the basic essentials that make Earth an inhabitable plant-polar ice caps. If temperatures world-wide were to change, there ice caps would melt and cause massive tidal changes and weather patterns trauma.

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

It is difficult to determine at this point how our society will be affected by the incidence of global warming. All information at this point is speculative however and should be regarded as such.

While there will definitely be social effects to global warming, there will be some areas that are winners and some that are losers. In some areas, conditions will probably improve while in other regions, the results will be negative. Overall however, global warming will be detrimental to humanity. Although agriculture in general will improve due to longer growing seasons in certain areas, the benefit does not outweigh possible disasters such as the projected sea level rise that will cause flooding in coastal areas and threaten drinking supplies. It is important to realize that global warming will change much of the way we live. Many coastal areas will disappear under rising ocean waters, and temperature and rainfall zones will shift.

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Differing Viewpoints

Does global warming exists? Many feel that the temperature change being felt across the globe is not a result of global warming. Rather it is caused by certain major long-term causes. Such examples would include the drifting of continents, variations in solar activity, ocean currents and the natural atmospheric chemistry. Other factors that are not long run would include volcanic explosions and dust from everyday human activity.

Is the globe actually getting warmer? Some scientists would say little, if any. Average global temperature readings were never taken until the late 1970's since that time, satellites have been able to record any fluctuations in the temperature. Since the 1970's, scientists have detected some short-term fluctuations, but no significant warming trend.

Is global warming bad? Some scientists would have to say no. Many scientists in the agricultural research field support the theory that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, along with a small climate increase, would in fact help plant life. Carbon dioxide is essential for photosynthesis, the process by which plants grow. Scientific studies have actually proven that in some plants, increased levels of carbon dioxide have resulted in increased plant yield. Although in England global warming would result in the melting of the ice caps and the change in the continential drift, and the subsequent cooling of the country.