Major physical processes and events have been happening to the Earth throughout its long history and will keep on happening.
Some physical processes are continuous, taking place over a very long periods of time. Other physical processes take very little time by comparison: we humans have chosen to call some of those "catastrophic events" because they seem to have taken place with hardly any warning.
For the past 4,000 million years the outer crust of the Earth has been changing. Its tectonic plates, continually move around forming continents which then break up and re-form in other configurations. The friction caused by the sliding and subduction of the edges of plates against one another causes mountain chains to be thrown up and fiery volcanoes to spew out new soil and smokey, noxious gases which pollute the atmosphere.
65 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped out by a major event. It was probably a huge meteorite from outer space which suddenly hit the Earth. The resulting air pollution caused thousands of years of continuing global darkness and bitter cold because heat and light from our Sun could not reach the surface until the pollution was eventually absorbed by the Earth.
An ice sheet on Antarctica began to grow some 20 million years ago. The current ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation, started about 2.58 million years ago during the late Pliocene when the spread of ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere began. Since then, the world has seen cycles of glaciation with ice sheets advancing and retreating on 40,000- and 100,000-year time scales called glacials (glacial advance) and interglacials (glacial retreat).
The Earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago. All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland ice sheet, the Antarctic ice sheet and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. It is likely that people lived in the temperate zones of the Earth before that last glacial period began, along with other animals and plants. After the maximum had occurred and the glaciers receded, modern humans were able to migrate from a belt of land around the Earth's Equator towards its poles.
Ø The fuel we burn, especially oil and coal, contributes to climate change, which has the potential to destroy our way of life.
Ø Global warming can be the cause of hurricanes, and droughts.
Ø More frequent and powerful cyclones and hurricanes, more frequent and intense floods and droughts are clear indications that climate change has already begun.
Ø global warming is also responsible for causing global glacier decline, sea level rise, scarcity of freshwater resources.
Ø Extreme weathers and weather related events such as flooding, drought, wild fires, heat waves, and tropical cyclones are expected to occur even more frequently and to become even more intense
Ø Extreme and rapid changes in temperature would affect the length of various seasons
Ø The fuel we burn, especially oil and coal, contributes to climate change, which has the potential to destroy our way of life.
Weather means day to day weather, but weather patterns is talking more about climate.
Scientists suggest that global warming will mean that weather "events" (storms, hurricanes, blizzards, floods etc) will happen more often and will be more severe.
It is hard to pin global warming as the cause of any particular storm, so we need time to look at events over a number of years before we can be sure. However, worldwide insurance companies claim 2011 as a record year for disasters, even when the Japanese tsunami, the New Zealand earthquake and other geophysical events were removed.
Munich Re Insurance reports (see the link below) that the insured losses from thunderstorms and tornadoes in the US were, in 2011 dollars:
i really dont know wat it is but my friend said it affects rain n clouds n definatlly climate
Climate and weather does not affect global warming. The other way round is true, global warming will affect the climate.
See the related question below.
it makes it nice and sunny
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It's too early to know. There are various unusual rainfall happenings going on around the world, floods in Australia, floods in Thailand etc. These might be caused by global warming, but they might just be unusual rainfall. Climate change takes time to be measured, after at least ten or twenty years, perhaps more. Weather changes every day.
The consequences might be that we do manage to stop, or at least slow global warming. But if we don't try, then global warming definitely won't stop.
They might have. A warming in one area, like the Arctic, can lead to increased precipitation somewhere else, like North America. If the temperature there is low enough, the precipitation is in the form of snow. Extreme weather events are one of the possibilities caused by global warming.
Strictly speaking there is no other name for global warming."The whole earth heating up" might be another name.Global warming is causing climate change, so many people think they are both the same, so they say:"Climate change is another name for global warming", but they are not really the same.
Snow acts as a reflector (albedo) so more of the sun's radiation will be reflected back into space instead of warming the earth.This will make a tiny difference to the speed of global warming.
No. While global warming might affect tornado activity, tornadoes themselves are an end product of weather and climatic activity, not a cause.
Global warming would have no affect on the location of the poles.
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The country being hot today is weather, not climate. It might have something to do with global warming, but it might not. However, if the weather is always getting hotter, after some years this becomes the climate of a place.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
Global warming increases temperature.Water level rises up.Amount of water in atmosphere is affected.
In 30 years, global warming may affect is by changing our climate. This will change many things, such as vegetation and energy. It may also increase skin cancer.
Global warming may cause the ocean to rise. If the ocean rises, then many places that are below sea level will flood.
Global warming will head to Antarctica (south pole
It's not possible to say accurately what will happen to Breckinridge County in the future. Climate changes over the next decade might be hard to attribute to global warming. Ten years is a short time in climatic terms. Global warming is happening all over the world. Some places will be drier than before. Other places will be wetter than before. Warming causes weather, so more warming is certainly going to affect the weather. Low lying countries and coastlines and cities will be in danger from rising sea levels. Warming oceans expand, and this is causing the rise firstly. Melting glaciers and ice caps are a secondary reason. Places too cold for agriculture may be able to be farmed, but much of the present croplands may have to adapt or be abandoned if global warming continues.