Effects+of+Global+Warming

What is GLOBAL WARMING?? media type="youtube" key="V1O34cqerqs" height="385" width="480" media type="youtube" key="oJAbATJCugs" width="389" height="308" OK, so we all know that global warming is a big thing that is affecting us right now. We know that it is killing the wildlife, melting the polar ice caps, making our summers hotter and winters shorter, but how is global warming effecting us personally? Most people seem to be under the illusion that global warming isn't going to effect you that much personally, but in reality, global warming will come to effect each and every one of us every single day. One example of this is that if we don't do anything about global warming, you can say goodbye to Christmas trees, since the Pine Bark Beetle is thriving because of the warmer temperatures, and therefore, they are eating more and more pine trees every year, so that eventually, there will be no Pine trees left. Another example is the fact that cute, tubbly, little polar bears, are starting to resort to cannibalism to get food. Since the polar ice caps around them are melting, polar bears have to swim farther and farther to get to safety. Since they don't want to take the chance of drowning, they have to eat each other. The whole list of things that you're going to have to say goodbye to because of global warming is here: **http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html** Global Warming is especially effecting developing countries who are depending heavily on agriculture to help their economy move along. If these farmers are unable to grow the crops that they sell to help support their families, the country will fall further and further into bankrupcy, and eventually it will become a **FAILED STATE**.

The especially affected parts of the world are Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, the Pacific and Indonesia, Europe, the Poles, and Latin America. In Asia, India and Bangladesh are being hit hard since they have a high population and the people live on low land, which will eventually be flooded because of global warming. In Africa, global warming is causing already scalding temperatures to climb, making food even more scarce. In Australia and North America (especially California) forest fires are becoming more and more frequent. Also in North America, Hurricane Katrina has been one of the worst hurricanes in all recorded history in the United States. Hurricanes are becoming more and more of a threat to us. Rising sea levels are also starting to become a threat to the coast. In Latin America, the Amazon is victim to the increasing dry spells. I mean think about it, the rain forest //without rain????// In Indonesia and the Pacific, the people are falling prey to increasing earthquakes and devastating tsunamis. The Poles are just melting, and it seems that the entire world is suffering because of our own stupid actions. NOTICE that almost all of the world is affected by global warming in one way or another. I found this information here: **http://ezinearticles.com/?Global-Warming---The-Countries-Most-Affected&id=3109673** if you want to see how else the world is being effected.

Despite having several meetings trying to decide what to do about global warming on an international level, but we have nothing to show for it. The Kyoto Protocol of 1997 was an attempt to being all countries together to combat global warming and lower our emissions and human foot print on a global scale. The only country that //flat out rejected// the idea was the US. Every other country in the world is either undecided or has agreed to try to help. Even if global warming is just a hoax, trying to make our air cleaner can't possibly do anything other than help those of us who live in cities whose air is practically killing our lungs, like Philadelphia. Improving the air quality will also help lower the number of people who get lung cancer from living in big cities and are breathing in that polluted air every day.

All in all, most countries are and willing to help combat global warming and make our Earth a better place for the future.



The way that global warming is affecting politics is because many politicians want to do something about it. Politicians can get monetarial support from environmental groups. Some Presidents have also supported going green, like Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton. There are many political cartoons about global warming. Above is one of them.



Overall, global warming is affecting __**//everyone.//**__ You, me, rich politicians, poor farmers, spoiled children, orphans, the average middle class, and Oprah Winfrey. **//__Everyone.__//**