The Effects Of Global Warming
May 28th, 2007The effects of global warming are fact, not fiction, and their impact on daily life is noticeable — at least to those who aren’t covering their eyes and pretending the world cannot change. From that start of the nineteenth century back, the sea level has been almost constant; past 1900, however, ocean levels have risen at a steady rate (About .1 mm a year.) Since 1992, the water levels have been rising at a rate of 3mm per year. This happens because ice at the polar caps melts, shifts positions, and allows water that had been previously locked away to flow into the ocean.
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These drastic effects of global warming are the result of a steady rise in the Earth’s average temperature–1.3 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the recorded average through the 1950’s-80’s. This is NOT a small number; it is the result of temperature rises averaged out over thousands of different sites.
