Negative Effects of Global Warming
English book, p. 58
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Global warming is altering many features of the world permanently. A warmer world significantly impacts extremes of temperature and rainfall with implications for human health, ecosystem survival, and sustainable economic activity. Enhanced warming is expected to amplify the thawing of permafrost and the loss of seasonal snow cover of land ice and Arctic sea ice. Besides other negative impacts, climate change is resulting in two unbearable situations. On the one hand, very soon the level of water in the seas will rise, inundating coastal cities. On the other hand, the non-coastal areas will suffer from an intolerable water shortage. Some scholars predict that the shortage of water will become so acute that even a third world war might occur over this issue. This results in two unbearable situations. On the one hand, the level of water in the seas will soon rise, flooding coastal cities such as Calcutta, Bombay, Chennai, etc. The rivers are always full of water because the ice in the mountains keeps gradually melting the whole year-round, and this water continuously comes to the rivers through tributaries. However, when all this ice has melted, naturally, the rivers will run dry. Moreover, all their fresh water will be mixed with the

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