Global Warming Effects

The four hurricanes that bashed Florida and the Caribbean in the five-week period after the summer, intense storms over the western Pacific, heat waves that kill tens of thousands of Europeans last year and continued drought over the southwestern United States is only beginning, experts say. The ice is melting faster than anyone expected in Antarctica and Greenland, ocean currents are changing and the sea is on the slide, experts. "This year, a...

Global Warming is caused by many things. The causes are split up into two groups, man-made or anthropogenic causes, and natural causes. Man-made Causes Pollution is one of the biggest man-made problems. Burning fossil fuels is one thing that causes pollution. Fossil fuels are fuels made of organic matter such as coal, or oil. When fossil fuels are burned they give off a green house gas called CO2. Also mining coal and oil allows methane to esca...