Environment & Pollution :: Global Warming :: Signs 
       
        
          
             
                            Signs of Global Warming 
              
                
                  
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The receding of ice formations on Earth (snows at mountain-tops,  glaciers, and Antarctic and Arctic ice)  
                     
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The increase of shrubbery in Arctic  
                     
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Thinner clouds over the sky, that decrease the ability to reflect  heat from the sun (as studied by NASA)  
                     
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The discovery of the decrease of Earth's albedo (the amount of  sunlight reflection by the Earth surface to the Moon) by 2.5 percent, which  means the Earth has loosen some levels of capability to reflect sunlight to the  Moon.  
                     
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Change in wind directions  
                       
                     
                   
                 
                 
                
                  
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              Impacts  
              
                
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Stormy weather       (more chances for hurricanes, floods, cyclones, and storms to happen)  
                   
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Increased severity       for drought, hunger and spread of diseases, especially in poor countries  
                   
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Declines of       amphibians, caused by altered precipitation patterns resulted in lower       levels of pond and lake waters, where amphibians survive.  
                   
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Damages to coral       reefs  
                   
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Marine diseases  
                   
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Rising ocean       temperature  
                   
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Ecosystem       degradation  
                   
                  - Declining of biodiversity 
 
                  - Economic and social downturn.
                                  
              
 
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