Global Warming and Its Effect on Natural Disasters

Global Warming and its effect on natural disasters

Scientists have found that Global Warming can have a devastating effect on natural disasters. It increases the chance that a country or are will have a natural disaster. Also it increases the effects of a natural disaster. Global Warming is an increase in the earth's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution.

Global Warming is caused by humans and factories polluting the environment. The climate change is caused by rising outputs of carbon dioxide from vehicles, power plants, and factories. With the rise in production of business, automobiles, and other technology's, the earth suffers more pollution. Climate change can trigger earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, and increased woodland fires. Climate change is not just a result of the human civilization, but it is caused by natural events too. For example an event that causes climate change is ice melting in the Polar Ice Caps. Melted ice in the Polar Ice Caps pours off land masses and cliffs would crumble triggering underwater landslides that would break open more hydrate reserves located in the oceans seabed.

Another element associated with Global Warming is permafrost deposits. Permafrost deposits release methane which helps factor into the cause of Global Warming. Another risk in the polar area is that glaciers melting can trigger earthquakes. When glaciers melt they too can fall off land masses and cliffs and hit the ground. Thus causes earths plates to shift. This is what happens when an earthquake is in effect. Earthquakes come from the plates in the ground of our planet shifting.

There are many ways to prevent climate change. One way is to encourage carpooling. Carpooling can help decrease carbon dioxide from vehicles. If everyone would carpool to work, one car could carry 5 people to the same place instead of having 5 cars go to the same place. Another way to prevent climate change is to make ecofriendly factories. Factories make goods and service that humans use every day. But these factories release large amounts of carbon dioxide, which increases climate change. Trees also help prevent climate change. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and turn it into oxygen. Factories and people use a tree for anything from paper to firewood. Thus causing the amount of trees to go down and a natural prevention resource to stop working. If humans do not change the way they live, the earth temperature will steadily rise. Scientist predicts that the earth's temperature will rise 5 degrees in the next century. My research shows that a 1 degree change can increase the average amount of wildfires in one year. If humans do not change the way they live, an irreversible feedback loop will overwhelm the planet's climate, with cascading impacts leading to a warmer