m36. How could human health be affected by weather extremes?
Warmer
weather could cause disruption of food supplies and fresh water.
Millions would have to move. Allowing
for more tropical diseases would alter disease patterns and the flooding of
sewage systems would spread infectious diseases. As upper layers of seawater
warmed, typhoons and hurricanes would blow more frequently.
Miami, Galveston, Atlantic City, Charleston and Ocean City, to name a
few, would be flooded.
e16. What do computer models of greenhouse changes show?
e20. What are environmental hazards and risks?
g04. What causes climates to change?
g13. What makes up earth's climate?
g14. How can global warming affect sea levels?
g19. Where do you find air pollution?