From global warming to ice age
The shortest way to global extinction
The current and future consequences of global change
Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
Global warming is melting glaciers
Rising global temperatures will
speed the melting of glaciers and
ice caps and cause early ice thaw
on rivers and lakes.
It’s also
causing the melting and break-up
of glaciers, ice sheets and sea ice
along the Antarctic continent, in
the Arctic Ocean and across
Greenland. As a result, icebergs
are being launched into the seas,
where their fate is to drift,
shatter and slowly melt.
Sea-Level Rise
Current rates of sea-level rise are expected to increase as a result both of thermal expansion of the oceans and melting of most mountain glaciers and partial melting of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice caps.
More storms
A storm is any disturbed
state of an environment
or astronomical body's
atmosphere especially
affecting its surface,
and strongly implying
severe weather.
Ocean currents flow for great distances, and together, create the global conveyor belt which plays a dominant role in determining the climate of many of the Earth’s regions.
Global warming could, via a shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation, trigger localised cooling in the North Atlantic and lead to cooling, or lesser warming, in that region.
The warming pushed Earth into an ice age.
It is a paradox, but global warming
can trigger a cooling trend.
The reason is The Northern Hemisphere
owes its climate to the North Atlantic Current.
Heat from the sun arrives at the equator
and is carried north by the
ocean. But global warming is melting
the polar ice caps and disrupting this flow.
Eventually it will shut down.
And when that occurs.....
there goes our warm climate.
• The imbalance will create storms. The storm's rotation is pulling super-cooled air all the way down from the upper troposphere. The basic rule of storms is they continue until the imbalance that created them is corrected. In this case, we're talking about a global realignment.
When it's over, ice and snow will cover the entire Northern Hemisphere. The ice and snow will reflect sunlight. The Earth's atmosphere will restabilize with an average temperature close to that of the last Ice Age.
It’s will be
8th mass extinction
in earth history
Can we do anything to stop global warming?
YES!
=>The answer is save engery