| Global warming is one of the most dangerous | | | | this rate. |
| challenges that all of humanity has ever faced. Its | | | | But it's not just these devastating disasters that hint |
| multiple effects will cause disruptions in everything | | | | towards what's happening with our weather. |
| from natural habitat to drinking water and food | | | | Summers are becoming hotter by the year, and this |
| supply. And even more dangerously, it will give birth | | | | winter Ski resorts in Central America, Europe and the |
| to some of the most powerful natural disasters ever | | | | United States all lost business because it just hadn't |
| known to mankind. | | | | snowed like it used to even last year! For the first |
| In 2004, the Tsunami in Asia displayed an unforgiving | | | | time in over a hundred years, Central Park in New |
| act of nature. Less than a year later, across | | | | York saw no snow in December 2006. |
| continents in the United States, Hurricane Katrina | | | | With global warming, "extreme weather" or "freak |
| delivered a blow of equal magnitude. Both the | | | | weather" is becoming a part of daily life. June and |
| disasters caused massive humanitarian crisis, effecting | | | | July alone has witnessed massive floods in the UK |
| hundreds of thousands of lives. These might not | | | | and parts of the United States, while in other parts |
| have been directly caused by global warming, but it | | | | of the United States heat has caused dangerous |
| certainly paints a picture of thing to come. | | | | forest fires. And this week, the west coast is |
| In India, the speed of cyclones in the Andra Pradesh | | | | expected to hit temperatures in triple digits! |
| region has jumped from an average of 150 | | | | There is little argument that global warming is real and |
| kilometres per hours to 250 kph within just six years! | | | | it causes changes in our weather pattern. Every |
| And while some cities are at a risk of being washed | | | | week, scientists find more startling and disturbing |
| out, other are at the risk of drying up. | | | | evidence to support this fact. And the scientific |
| Global warming will cause parts of the world to be | | | | community is trying everything from simple steps to |
| very fertile for a period of time but simultaneously, it | | | | cut carbon emission en masse, to designing colossal |
| will also cause droughts in other parts. Scientists have | | | | artificial air purifiers for earth. This time, it's for the |
| estimated that as much as half a million people in Asia | | | | sake of our planet. |
| could face starvation within the next 30-40 years at | | | | |