Yes.
Even though the UK may not directly feel significant negative effects from global warming (depending on what happens to the jet stream and so forth), to my knowledge, most food staples are imported to the UK rather than grown there. This means that things that affect agriculture in other regions will affect food prices in the UK.
Here's a nice overall list of the positive and negative (mostly negative) effects of global warming: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-w...
Some sources for more information:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
http://aip.org/history/climate/summary.h...
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...
http://www.realclimate.org/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... (I posted a question asking people to give links to information at varying levels of experience)
Global Warming is the same as Climate Change.
The problem with CO2 causing more warming is that it is limited in its capacity to create more warming. This is due to CO2 and its ability to receive IR (infrared radiation) at the specific wavelength needed to cause more warming. It reaches a saturation level and can not cause very much more warming of the planet. Read here : http://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/201...
Since 1880, the planet has warmed by 0.75 Celsius. Much of this warming occurred before the 1940s when fossil fuel emissions were still relatively low. From approximately 1940 to 1975 fossil fuel emissions tripled and yet global temperature decreased. In 1997-1998 global temperatures spiked by 1 whole degree Celsius. This is where much of the alarm of "Global Warming" comes from. Climate scientists found that the warming was caused naturally and fossil fuel emissions had very little to do with it. Very little! If the planet can warm on its own by 1 degree in 1 year, then how much effect do humans really have on the planet? The rise in temperature since 1880 is negligible and is not cause for alarm.
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I would also like to refer you to Gunny T's answer to this question at Y/A : http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Yep. It might be nice if the UK just got a few degrees warmer. But global warming isn't that simple. It's generally called climate change these days because if effects a lot of different aspects of the climate.
The rise of a few degrees will be greater at the poles. We're already seeing increased rates of melting ice caps. Higher water levels will potentially cause flooding in London and other citites.
Extreme weather events will increase in severity and frequency. This might wipe out coastal towns but also damage crop production.
Extreme weather events, droughts and floods could drive increased numbers of refugees to arrive in the UK.
There's potentially a lot of other problems too.
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Another paper published by leading climate scientist James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the lower than expected temperature rise between 2000 and the present could be explained by increased emissions from burning coal.
Yes. It's a problem for every country. That's why it's call "Global" warming.
for my geography homework:) simple definition please.
