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causing everything to heat up at a much faster rate.

Now that the causes have been explained the effect of these causes is next. What happens due to the warming of our planet? Well something that was predicted and is seen happening to us more commonly than every are the "super storms". Scientists once said that as the planet gets heated up so will the storms. The hotter the planet the warmer the water, the warmer the water the worse the hurricanes and tsunamis. Haven't we seen this quite a bit? Things like hurricane Katrina didn't used to be common, these storms are things of the present and are affecting human life in major ways causing people to lose homes, and more importantly lives. In the past decade thousands of lives have been lost to storms like Katrina.

Something else that happens when water gets hot is something we experience almost daily. When you put a pot of water on the stove what happens? It begins to bubble and is then hot enough to cook with. The point is that the water eventually, after about 5 minutes on high, will begin to boil. Is it possible that the water of our oceans and lakes will one day boil like the water on our stoves? Yes. Water that boils out of small holes in the ground are called geysers and are seen now as wonders. Old Faithful is something many people venture to see at Yellow Stone National Park and is an example that it is possible. Of course the water boiling there is much smaller than an ocean but look at it like this. If the water did begin to boil it would move up start to take over land we call vacation resorts or coastal areas. Water rising also occurs due to the melting of the ice caps all around the world. Not only are we impacted but the water rising but so are animals. Animals living on the ice are losing homes and are dieing due to the lack of help they're getting.

The last effect is that one day the planet is going to get so hot that we as humans won't be able to inhabit what we know now as our home. As the earth gets hotter at about 2-3 degrees a year eventually its going to be extremely hot, too hot for us, and we will be forced to leave for space.

From Co2 to humans one day venturing off of earth for life elsewhere global warming has serious effects, and the causes of the effects are what need to be changed regardless of whether or not you believe. Obviously the effect we have had on our planet is coming back to us and its time we all start to change how we live.

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