GLOBAL WARMING AND NATURAL DISASTERS 

The aim of this report is to explain the relathionship of both topics and, how the climate change can affect the Earth and causes natural disasters.

What is the global warming?
Global warming is the increase of the overall temperature in the atmosphere, shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming. It is generally attributed to the greenhouse effect gases.

What are global warming effects?

Global warming is projected to have a number of effects on the oceans. That effects include tha glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are dying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It has become clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than at any time in the last 800,000 years.

Greenhouse effect

We often call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. While many people think of global warming and climate change as synonyms, scientists use “climate change” to describe the complex shifts now affecting our planet’s weather and climate systems, in part because some areas actually get cooler in the short term.

Climate change encompasses not only rising average temperatures but also extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts. All of those changes are emerging as humans continue to add heat-trapping greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely on.

What are natural disaster?

Natural disasters are any catastrophic events caused by nature or natural processes of the Earth and all naturals disasters cause loss in some way. Types of some natural disasters:

FLOODS                DROUGHTS          WILDFIRE   

  

AVALANCHES   VOLCANO ERUPTIONS  TSUNAMIS

                                                                     

    

HEAT WAVE       EARTHQUAKE  HURRICANE

  

CONCLUSION        

Natural disasters can happen because of the climate change increasing global surface temperatures the possibility of more droughts and increased intensity of storms will be greater. As more water vapor is evaporated into the atmosphere it can cause more instenses storms. Floods and droughts are example of natural disasters caused by the climate.

 

However, sea levels can increase graduality and that means that the small tsunamis can have the same consequences that have the biggest tsunamis.

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Made by: Alicia Castro, María Moreno, Alba Medina, Miriam Suárez and Jonathan Vargas