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Top 10 Facts You Didn’t Know

By admin ⋅ July 16, 2007 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ 151 views

Global warming is a subject extensively covered by the media. However, there are a few things you didn’t know about global warming or which might have slipped out of your mind. Here we go:

1. Allergies have been worsening in recent years. An increasing number of people started to develop asthma, bronchitis or seasonal allergies. Through global warming, people become more vulnerable to pollutants. These changes in the Earth’s climate are responsible for prodding plants to bloom earlier and produce more pollen.
2. Squirrels and chipmunks moved up. They are rarely found on the ground due to the changes in the habitat. Animals around the Poles are also experiencing a climate change.
3. Due to the ice melting ever faster in the Arctic, more and more plants are starting to bloom. When the ice melts earlier in the spring, the plants seem to be eager to start growing.
4. 125 lakes from the Arctic have disappeared in the past years. Researches believe that permafrost underthe lakes thawed out.
5. Global warming seems to be thawing out the layer of permanently frozen soil below the ground’s surface. Holes can occur, damaging the rail road systems or causing mudslides.
6. Plants bloom earlier, much before the animals’ usual time to migrate. Unless they can adapt, animals might miss out on all the food.
7. Greengas emissions from Earth a very thin atmosphere on the outermost layer. Thus the air slows down satellites, scientists needing to put them back into their original positions.
8. Thanks to the melting of the glaciers on top, the Alps and other mountain chains have experienced a gradual growth spurt over the past century. Mountains normally cause the soil under them to depress; with a lighter weight, this surface is rising back.
9. More and more ancient buildings and monuments are experiencing a rapid deterioration. Extreme temperatures, hurricanes and the rising sea level may be the factors that will bring these relics down.
10. The number of forest fires has increased all over the U.S. in the past decades. In the springtime and summer, forests become drier and drier, increasing the chance that they might ignite.

Source: http://www.livescience.com