Global Warming
The climate system of Earth responds to changes in external factors that are able to push the climate towards warming or cooling. These factors include changes in atmosphere composition (concentration of greenhouse gases), volcanic eruptions, and solar activity changes. All of these factors combined create current tendency of climate change that is described by the term “global warming”. Global warming is the continuous rise in average temperature of Earth's climate system. Despite the dominant role of the ocean in the accumulation of heat, the term “global warming” is used to refer to the growth of average air temperature at the surface of land and ocean.
The 2015 report of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows …show more content…
Obviously, climate change has significant impact on people’s everyday life. First of all, global warming affects human health. Primarily, state of health largely depends on the access to clean drinking water, sufficient food, secure shelter, and good social conditions. Climate change can influence all of these factors. According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, 2014 was the hottest year on record across the globe since 1880 when record keeping began. The 10 warmest years in this 135-year period occurred between 1998 and 2014.
Public health services and high living standards are able to protect some groups of people from specific impacts of global warming. For example, it is unlikely that Western Europe and North America will suffer from the new outbreak of malaria epidemic due to the climate change. However, the effects of rapid warming on health are likely to be overwhelmingly negative, particularly for the poorest classes of the Earth population, which have contributed least to the emissions of carbon dioxide. One of the possible effects of climate change is the difficulties with freshwater supply and increased risks of diseases transmitted through …show more content…
Currently, more than half of the world's population lives within 60 km from the sea or ocean. That’s why rising sea levels increase the risk of coastal flooding, and may lead to the activation of migration processes. In this respect, the most vulnerable regions are the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, and many small islands such as the Maldives, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. People may be forced to move, which in turn raises the risk of a range of negative health effects, from mental disorders to communicable
The climate system of Earth responds to changes in external factors that are able to push the climate towards warming or cooling. These factors include changes in atmosphere composition (concentration of greenhouse gases), volcanic eruptions, and solar activity changes. All of these factors combined create current tendency of climate change that is described by the term “global warming”. Global warming is the continuous rise in average temperature of Earth's climate system. Despite the dominant role of the ocean in the accumulation of heat, the term “global warming” is used to refer to the growth of average air temperature at the surface of land and ocean.
The 2015 report of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows …show more content…
Obviously, climate change has significant impact on people’s everyday life. First of all, global warming affects human health. Primarily, state of health largely depends on the access to clean drinking water, sufficient food, secure shelter, and good social conditions. Climate change can influence all of these factors. According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, 2014 was the hottest year on record across the globe since 1880 when record keeping began. The 10 warmest years in this 135-year period occurred between 1998 and 2014.
Public health services and high living standards are able to protect some groups of people from specific impacts of global warming. For example, it is unlikely that Western Europe and North America will suffer from the new outbreak of malaria epidemic due to the climate change. However, the effects of rapid warming on health are likely to be overwhelmingly negative, particularly for the poorest classes of the Earth population, which have contributed least to the emissions of carbon dioxide. One of the possible effects of climate change is the difficulties with freshwater supply and increased risks of diseases transmitted through …show more content…
Currently, more than half of the world's population lives within 60 km from the sea or ocean. That’s why rising sea levels increase the risk of coastal flooding, and may lead to the activation of migration processes. In this respect, the most vulnerable regions are the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh, and many small islands such as the Maldives, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu. People may be forced to move, which in turn raises the risk of a range of negative health effects, from mental disorders to communicable