• Question: @uday @chloe how will global warming affect people on earth

    Asked by ReecePatrick to Chloe, Irene, Pierre, NULL, Uday on 13 Nov 2015.
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      Chloe Huseyin answered on 13 Nov 2015:

      Global warming will affect people on Earth by changing the planet that we live on (and not in a good way). Global warming is bad as the weather and climates around the world will change and become much more erratic, forcing many species into extinction, and making life much harder—especially for people in developing countries.

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      Uday Bangavadi answered on 16 Nov 2015:

      The major problem of global warming is raise in temperature. It increases the humidity , air temperature near atmosphere and temperature near land. Due to increase in temperature Snow covers and icecaps melts which in turn increases sea level.

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      Pierre Casaubielh answered on 17 Nov 2015:

      Global warming will affect all of us: animals, humans, plants, land…

      Numerical analysis suggest that:
      Ice in Poles will melt even faster that it was till now;
      Some countries can get even more arid;
      There will movement of people (migration), as drinking water will difficult to find;
      there will be more storms;
      More flooding;
      acidification of oceans;
      less fish, corals,…;
      … etc.

      Have you noticed that things have already changed? we can still do something…. and the problem with global warming, a bit hidden, is there is less and less dark oil, countries are fighting to each other to get access to it: a solution is to consider renewable energies from what’s available in countries: solar, wind…

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      Irene Regan answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      Great Q:)

      Global warming, which is a gradual rising of Earth’s temperature, is different from all the natural disasters (like tsunami) that have happened and more devastating, representing a scale of threat greater than anything humans have faced in recent history.
      Humans, of course, are animals too—and, although we often forget it, we are also part of the complex global ecosystem.
      What’s happening at the North Pole might seem remote and unimportant, but we are likely to feel the effects of climate change much closer to home.

      More erratic weather patterns could mean much greater storm damage and the loss of coastal areas to rising seas; the insurance industry has been worried about the effects of climate change for many years.

      Episodes of El-Niño are more intense and longer-lasting and already happening around three times more often than a century ago. Floods are likely to plague some countries, droughts others.

      On some predictions, climate change flooding could make around 100-200 million people permanently homeless by 2100. Ironically, even in a world of rising sea levels and often more severe rainfall, many more people are expected to suffer severe water shortages.

      There will be other impacts too. Changes in climate will make it easier to grow food in some places, but much harder in others. There may be gains in production in parts of the United States, but countries such as those in Africa are predicted to lose out.
      Overall, the world’s poorest people are expected to be hit hardest. Pests and diseases are predicted to spread much further to take advantage of global warming.
      Mosquitoes, for example, breed faster in warmer climates, spreading diseases to more people. By 2100, in a warming world, malaria is expected to spread much more widely, placing two-thirds of the world’s people at risk—compared to just 45 percent at risk today (that’s a lot of sick people(:)

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