Results of Global Warming

This essay discusses the negative effects of global warming, including climate change, impact on human health, biosphere, and wildlife. It also presents counter-arguments and emphasizes the need for action. The melting of polar icebergs and changes in river flow patterns are highlighted. The essay concludes that the negative aspects of global warming outweigh the positive aspects.

Running head: RESULTS OF GLOBAL WARMING
Mohawk College of applied arts and technology
SSCI-AS406-02
Topic:-Global warming
Submitted to:- David wearing
Submitted by :- Kamal Deep Kaur

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As opined by Harvey (2016), the problem of global warming is perhaps one of the
most important wicked problems that the world is presently facing and which in turn is
adversely affecting its sustainability in a significant manner. The major context on which the
essay focuses on is the concern with the discovery of depletion in ozone layer due to green
house gases from the industries. In this regard, it needs to be said that although the Kyoto
Protocol (1997) declared global warming to be a major concern which was the net result of
the excessive amount of carbon dioxide emission caused by the humans and thereby
advocated for the reduction in emission of the same (Nowack et al., 2015). The major
arguments that the essay will focus to show the negative effects of global warming are
climate change, its effect on human health, effect on biosphere, wildlife and dangers posed by
it to human beings. However, the essay will also present some counter-arguments like the
melting of polar icebergs had created new ecosystems, lack of evidence for its negative
effects and others. Global warming has been an alarming issue which has detrimental effect
on the environment and therefore it is paramount that government and people should take any
obligation action to reduce the problem by global warming. This essay will argue the fact that
the negative aspects of the process of global warming far outweigh its positive aspects.
A drastic change in global climate which the world had experienced in the last decade
or two is perhaps one of the most important negative effects of the process of global
warming. In this regard, Ficke, Myrick and Hansen (2007) have stated that the process of
global warming affects both the humans and the animals alike by increasing the temperature
of the world and also by way of making the climate of the world more erratic. This in turn
had made the life of the animals as well as the plants more difficult since it is seen that there
are many animals or plants which require a particular temperature range in which they can
thrive. Root et al. (2003) had stated that this in turn had drastically changed the breeding or
the egg laying patterns of the birds and also the mammals are facing difficulties with their

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normal hibernation periods. Needless to say, this had adversely affected the life pattern or the
lifecycle of the animals and plants alike and thereby poses a significant threat to their very
existence itself. However, Medhaug et al. (2017) have counter-argued this viewpoint that the
global average temperature in the last decade had risen by only 0.92 centigrade and this in
turn shows that the problem of global warming does not pose the kind of threat that the
people claim it to pose.
The process of global warming had an adverse effect on the health of the humans and
the animals alike and as a matter of fact the cases of thermal stress and other kinds of
infections faced by the humans and animals have increased in the last decade. In this regard,
Epstein (2000) had argued that because of the process of global warming, acid rains have
increased in a substantial manner in the recent times which not only affect the human beings
as well as the animals but at the same time the plants as well and also destroys the fertility of
the lands as well. McMichael et al. (2003) have articulated the viewpoint that by raising the
temperature, global warming had made the planet more congenial for different kinds of
germs, viruses and others which in turn had significantly increased the number of infectious
diseases faced by the individuals. However, Lewandowsky, Risbey and Oreskes (2016) have
counter-argued this by stating that the increase in the number of infectious diseases faced by
the human beings can be attributed to the emergence of different kinds of germs, viruses and
others and also because of the fact that they are getting immune to the vaccines, drugs and
others used by the human beings for combating them.
One of the most important negative effects of the problem of global warming is the
fact that because of this the polar icebergs are melting at a much faster rate which in turn
causing issue for the flora and fauna and the biosphere itself. Scheraga and Woodward (2003)
are of the viewpoint that because of the melting of the polar icebergs, the polar bears,
Pennington’s and others which can only sustain themselves in those climatic conditions are

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finding it very hard to lead a normal life. More importantly, as opined by Körner and Basler
(2010), the melting of the polar icebergs have increased the number of floods, volcanic
eruptions and others in the recent times in an exponential manner by virtue of causing
disturbance in the natural geological process of the planet. Bongaarts and O'Neill (2018), on
the other hand, had argued that as the glaciers melt the geological process had more room for
reactions and movements and thereby had the opportunity to initiate a new biosphere in ice
cold regions which in the longer-run can prove to be beneficial for the flora as well as the
fauna of the concerned region.
The process of global warming had not only affected the breeding patterns of the wild
animals but at the same time threaten to alter their lifestyle in a significant manner. In this
regard, Sunday (2012) has argued that the process of global warming requires an
enhancement of the thermal tolerance level of these animals and also a global redistribution
of animals on the score of climate change that the concerned process had precipitated. More
importantly, Tewksbury, Huey and Deutsch (2008) had argued that because of the change in
temperature of the world some of the wild animals and birds need to be relocated from their
natural surroundings to green houses and other congenial places for them to survive.
Moreover, Jarvinen (1994) has stated the concerned process had also affected the size of the
eggs laid by the birds (as a matter of fact it had made the size of the eggs much smaller) and
also the quality of birds born from these eggs as well. Daufresne, Lengfellner and Sommer
(2009), on the other hand, have counter-argued this by stating that the process of global
warming actually support the life as well as their lifecycle of various marine animals and
planets and this in turn had contributed in a significant manner towards the development of
the marine ecosystem.
The process of global warming entails with itself various new dangers that the human
beings have only now started to realize or comprehend. For example, the extension of the

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thermal process or the increase in the global temperature poses the risk of different kinds of
diseases to the human beings (Weart, 2008). Furthermore, the erratic climatic or the drastic
fluctuations in the climate had not only exposed the human beings to a plethora of diseases
but also give rise to different kinds of germs, viruses and others which in turn are causing
various problems for the human beings (Medhaug et al., 2017). Earth’s own ‘life’ and
biosphere is getting exploited by the process global warming due to which it is facing various
kinds of problems at the present moment. In this regard, it needs to be said that the melting of
the polar icebergs is perhaps one of the biggest threats which the problem of global warming
presents to the human beings and also the survival of the entire planet itself (Harvey, 2016).
Bhutiyani, Kale and Pawar (2008) have articulated the viewpoint that the process of global
warming had also change the river flow patterns of various rivers in the present times which
in turn had greatly affected the lives of the humans, plants and the animals which depend on
these rivers. Hartmann et al. (2000) are of the viewpoint that the depletion of the ozone layer
is another problem which had been brought on by global warming and this in turn had
substantially increased the number of skin diseases and others faced by the people. However,
Medhaug et al. (2017) counter-argue these viewpoints by stating that the unfreezing of the
polar-regions and other similar places can actually make room for new ecosystems in those
regions which in turn could contribute in a significant towards the ecosystem of the world.
To conclude, the problem of global warming had emerged as one of the most
important ones that the world is presently facing and whose resolution is of paramount
importance for the survival of the entire world itself. In this regard, it needs to be said that
there are various adverse effects of the process of global warming like increase in global
temperature, melting of polar icebergs, increase in the number of floods, changes in the river
flow patterns, increase in the number of diseases faced by the human beings and others. On
the other hand, there are some aspects as like the unfreezing of the polar-regions can actually

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support new ecosystems, this can actually prove beneficial for the marine ecology and others.
However, as the above discussion makes it clear when the positive and the negative aspects
of the process of global warming are weighed together, the negative aspects far-outweigh the
positive aspects of the same.

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