Climate change is created by the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other fluorinated gases create the greenhouse effect. What the greenhouse effect is when heat, is trapped by the atmosphere by those gasses and then can’t escape. Many human activities cause a rise in greenhouse gases (electricity, transportation and human caused forest fires and other human caused natural disasters). From 1990-2007 the greenhouse gas emissions increased by 17%. Mars is a very good example of a planet that does not have enough greenhouse gasses and Venus is a very good example of a planet that has too many greenhouse gasses. Warmer conditions of global warming will cause more evaporation, precipitation and extreme conditions (wet-dry). Throughout the world, all of the continents would be effected by global warming (Antarctica- melted ice, Africa- more extreme drought, Europe- increased risk of flash floods, North America- less snow in the high mountains, but more rain overall.
If the global climate change keeps going as predicted there will an increase of heat waves and ‘hot rain, cyclones will increase in intensity, precipitation increases in high latitudes and decreases in subtropical areas. This would cause some populations in specific regions to decrease due to floods or droughts and some regions to increase in population.
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