Chapter 15 discusses in detail the causes and effects of global warming. Section

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Chapter 15 discusses in detail the causes and effects of global warming. Section 5 (labeled 15.5 in the textbook) discusses the average temperature increase of 0.6 degrees C and how this directly impacts alpine glaciers in many areas of the world, agricultural regions, sea levels, breeding seasons of birds and animals, coral reefs, ocean pH, and storm intensities. Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the few tropical mountains in the world to have glaciers on its summit. The view of this snow-capped mountain from the warm, arid plains of central Africa is a world-renowned sight. Unfortunately, Mt. Kilimanjaro, like alpine regions nearly everywhere in the world, is losing its famous snows. Since 1915, the mountain has lost 85 percent of its ice cap. If global warming continues, all the ice and permanent snows on the mountain will be gone by 2020. Instructions Review the Case Study at the beginning of the chapter, entitled “When Wedges Do More Than Silver Bullets,” and Section 15.5, entitled “What Effects Are We Seeing?” Open Google Earth, and in the search box enter Mt. Kilimanjaro, Rombo. Click Search. Then zoom in to see the area closely. The elevation is shown near the bottom of the screen as you move your mouse over the mountain top. 2. If you scan down the mountain sides, you will see river channels running down toward the plains below. What might be the effect on surrounding farmlands when the snows of Kilimanjaro are permanently gone? 3. Chapter 15, Section 5, discusses some responses climate experts make to claims against climate warming often heard in the media. Pick any one of those claims, and summarize what the textbook indicates the climate expert’s response is to the claim.

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Chapter 15 discusses in detail the causes and effects of global warming.

Causes and effects of global warming:

Now a day’s major environmental issue is global warming. In recent century global warming temperature caused by mostly green house gases, now green house gases percentage steadily increases and changes earth's climate or/and temperature. This causes huge health problems to humans like skin diseases and cancer etc..
Take an example for global warming effect on chile.

Chile doesn't produce much of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming currently but it may faces effect of global warming in the twenty future because highly releasing of green house gases from industries, this can be lead to changes the climate of chile.

According to research Andean glaciers has melted up to 50 percent since 1970.

This indicates Chile is facing the problem of global warming.

Compare to the past, now in Chile industrial pollution day by day increases so that may causes change in the Chile environmental temperature up to 2 to 3 degrees Celsius due to pollution caused by industries.
This will be threatening to rises sea level in future; this will cause the coastal erosion.

In the twenty first century global warming temperature caused by mostly green house gases, in future green house gases percentage increases drastically and changes earth's climate. These temperature changes causes melting of ice on Atlantic regions or any other glacial regions eventually leads more sea level rises and causes erosion of coastal area along the coastal regions on the entire world.

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