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Acivaes that release stuff

Author: Miqdaam Hamed Hassan



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Farming livestock and rice paddies emit lots of methane which is a greenhouse gas. Burning fossil fuels also releases a greenhouse gas called carbon dioxide. Deforrestation releases the trapped carbon dioxide in treees aswell.Emmiting more greenhouses gasses enhance the greenhouse effect as they absorb and reradiate infrared radiation from the sun back to earth increasing global temperature. Temperatures are expected to rise by 0.3-4.8 meaning some habitats will be destroyed therefore causing animals such as certain bat species to become extinct. Furthermore precipitatioin patterns will change causing certain species to immigrate from lower to higher lattitudes. Sea temperature it is expected to rise from 12-76cm by 2095 destroying habitats that exist near coasts. This will cause in a rapid increase in coastal errosion leading to the economic impact of more money spent on coastal defence schemes. Another economic impact is more money spent on predicting extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. Also certain plants such as maize crops have gotten smaller due to the warming in the current years. Social impacts of climate change include the increase in wild fires putting some peoples lives at risk due to the destruction of homes. Some areas may become hot and dry causing them to be inhabitable leading to mass migration and therefore overcrowding. Low crop yields can also increase malnutrition, ill health and death from starvation.


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