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Global Warming
Effects of global warming
What is in the book?
Chapter: Violent Weather
Wind
Cyclones/hurricanes
Tornados
Thunderstorms
Lightning
Floods
Global Warming
There is no denying it any more – global warming is real. Independent scientists and governments established that the world is getting warmer.
In the last decade you have heard of record high temperatures, record floods and droughts, severe storms and a record numbers of tornadoes. Northern Europe is already measurably wetter and southern Europe drier than they were before this century. Icebergs, the size of small countries, break off the polar shelf ice and cause a rise in sea levels.
The World Health Organization warns of indirect consequences of global warming. Unreliable weather conditions and severe weather events will negatively impact on agriculture and may cause famine.
More floods will spread waterborne diseases such as typhoid, dysentery, and cholera. Disease carriers such as mosquitoes will flourish in warmer conditions and carry malaria, dengue fever or encephalitis into countries previously unaffected.
Rodents and insects survive in greater numbers during milder winters. The tick-borne Lyme disease is already persistent in the US and Europe.
