Question

Mention any two harmful effects of Global Warming.

What are the threats from Global Warming?

List any four effects of global warming.

Answer 1

Some of the threats/Harmful effects of global warming are as follows:

1. Extinction of many animals including migratory birds.
2. Increase in storms, damaging the breeding of sea birds and sea animals. 
3. Rise in sea level destroying beach nesting shelter of sea turtles. 
4. Decline in number of male sea turtles creating imbalance in the ecosystem. 
5. Growing water scarcity in many regions could further destroy the wetlands areas on which migrating water fowl depend. 
6. Heat waves leading to heat strokes, heart attacks and other heart related ailments.
7. Imbalance in glacier mean causing glacier retreat around the world. 
8. Global warming may shut down or slow down the thermohaline circulation leading to changes in the ocean current.