Causes and Effects of the Global Warming

There are several effects of the global warming. One of them is raising sea levels. With increasing average global temperature, the water in the oceans expands in volume, and the water enters them which had been locked up on land in glaciers. Another effect is that the glaciers are retreating. Glacier retreat declined and reversed in many cases from 1950 to 1980 as a slight global cooling occurred. Arctic shrinkage, and altered patterns of agriculture are cited as direct consequences, but predictions for secondary and regional effects include extreme weather events, are also examples of the global warming effects.

There are many causes of global warming. The major cause of global warming is the emission of green house gases like carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc into the atmosphere. The major source of carbon dioxide is the power plants. These power plants emit large amounts of carbon dioxide produced from burning of fossil fuels for the purpose of electricity generation. In developed countries, building structures require a lot of fuel to be burnt which emits a large amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Another cause of global warming is deforestation that is caused by cutting and burning of forests for the purpose of residence and industrialization.