How Does Global Warming Effect The Environment

Learn the basics about the effect of global warming on the environment. Over the last 2000 years temperatures have varied, butt hat today, average temperatures are already one degree warmer on average than they were 100 years ago. Some of the problems global warming may cause are changing climate, extremes of weather, problems for ecosystems, rising sea levels and ocean acidification. The greenhouse gases are causing average global temperatures to rise, with the rise being much more drastic in some places such as the northern polar regions. Patterns of rainfall will also change. Although a hotter world will have more water evaporated from the seas this water may not rain down as it does at present. Some places will undoubtedly have much more rain, causing flooding, whereas others may have less rain, causing droughts. Another consequence of temperature change is that natural ecosystems will need to adapt...