What are some of the Effects of Global Warming?

One of the effects is rising sea levels. With Global Warming, glaciers on mountains, and the ice caps of the North Pole and Antarctica, could start melting. Rising sea levels would cause problems for cities near to the ocean because flooding would occur.
Global warming may change weather patterns. Over the last 140 years or so, average temperatures around the world have increased by between 0.25 degrees Celsius and 0.6 degrees Celsius. This has serious effects on our climate and weather patterns. There could be an increase in extreme weather conditions such as hurricanes, cyclones, storms or droughts. Changing weather patterns will have effects on many natural habitats, and the plants, animals, and humans that live in them.


(Information from The Greenhouse Effect, by Tony Hare, Gloucester Press: New York, 1990.)

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