Possible Effects of Global Warming

Everyone is complaining about how the Earth is getting hotter and hotter everyday. The effects of global warming can be felt in many places around the world. In several countries, climate change even brought sudden changes in seasons. There are places where dry season became shorter while rainy season became longer and the other way around.

But according to predictions, worst things are yet to happen in the next decades if the people do not start acting now to save the planet from total destruction. According to various researches, here are several things that global warming could change forever:

• Coastal towns and small islands may be submerged underwater by the year 2030. The warming climate condition slowly melts icebergs in the oceans and ice glaciers in the mountains causing the water level to rise and therefore submerging low lying and small islands.

• Coral reefs would be the first ecosystem to collapse due to climate changes. Warming waters degrade coral reefs to the extent that these would not be recognizable in the next 20 years.

• Signs show that climate change and human activities could turn rain forests into deserts in the next decades. Global warming and deforestation could convert rain forests into rich savannas in the next 30 years. On the other hand, global warming has an opposite effect on desert lands. Researchers are seeing signs that dry lands and their surrounding regions are becoming green. Increasing rainfall is seen to be the reason behind this. Researchers say this is very much possible since the same thing happened with Sahara which was once a grassland and turned to dry course dessert due to climate changes.

• There are no studies proving that strong typhoon categories which devastated different places around the world only in the past years are directly linked to global warming but there are indications that global warming will produce high category typhoons. Such natural phenomena derive power from warm water, therefore, there will be more typhoons that will hit the land as water temperature rises.

• Global warming may favor the bigger over smaller animals, based on studies conducted in Scotland where the climate is getting warmer and warmer. Study reveals that the body size of species could shrink up to 50 percent over the next 30 years.

These could be just few of the things that could happen if the global warming worsens. As the movie 2012 showed, the world could be reversed. Predictions may not come true as they are only seen to be happening yet but these predictions are based on things that happened and are actually happening.