How does Global Warming affect humans?

Answer 1

Global warming does affect the human race. Because of global warming there are more diseases such as malaria, the water is getting warmer so there are more hurricanes, there is a increased probability of intensity droughts and heat waves, economic consequences will happen, and polar ice caps are melting so there is a such thing global warming and help stop it by eliminating green house gases and using less energy.

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The potential results of temperature change can affect human populations in many areas of the world. The main outcomes could be:

• Melting of sea ice can cause flooding from an increase in worldwide sea levels.
• Changes in global weather patterns can create stronger storms.
• Changes in wind currents that affect precipitation can increase the length and severity of droughts.
• The most direct effect of climate change on humans might be the impacts of hotter temperatures themselves.
• Extreme high temperatures increase the number of people who die on a given day for many reasons: people with heart problems are vulnerable because one's cardiovascular system must work harder to keep the body cool during hot weather, heat exhaustion, and some respiratory problems increase.
• Climate change will have impacts on human health: weather-related mortality, Infectious Diseases and air-quality respiratory diseases.
• The impacts of climate change are likely to be more severe in poorer parts of the world, where people are less able to adapt to change.
• The cost of basic food will rise, especially with temperature rises of more than 2.5Ã��C, as agriculture will not be able to absorb increased costs.
• "Africa is projected to experience marked reductions in yield, decreases in production, and increases in the risk of hunger as a result of climate change."
• Human society may be disrupted if changes in rainfall and temperature cause crop failure. Famine refugees may require significant humanitarian attention by the "lucky" nations.

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This depends, of course, upon exactly how much global warming is going to take place, and we do not really know at this point, but it could be a lot. Melting polar icecaps will eventually raise the sea level and flood coastal areas causing mass human migration to escape the floods. Changes in rain patterns will disrupt farming and case mass starvation. Nations will fight over the shrinking supply of both land and food. These are all very serious consequences. But if things go to the final extreme, the world may get so hot that everybody will die from the heat.