Our World

Changing Climate Threatening Development

I overheard my dad watching the news tonight, and they were talking about global warming and the affects of it. I decided to find the article on the web, only to find out much more information that has a lot to do with what we have been talking about in College Geo.
It is stated in this article that "regions including Africa and South asia (home to most of the 1.1 billion people who live without clean water) will be among the hardest bit by changeing weather patterns.
Scientists worry that overall warming will melt glaciers and the polar ice caps, raising sea levels enough to damage many low-lying islands and cities around the world. In addition, a warmer climate could lead to changes in weather patterns, agriculture and even allow some diseases to expand into new areas.
There is much concern over the global warming. This topic also sprouted the fact that hurricane Katrina had been affected by the causes in temperture, and created the storm to be more violent then it should have been.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/20/ap/world/mainD8GFINE0C.shtml

posted by Anonymous @ 3/20/2006 06:32:00 PM