The Day after Tomorrow…..

The Effects of Global Warming …

… in different parts of the world.

Bangladesh Flooding

More monsoon rain

More Himalayan snow melt

More river flooding.

Location of Bangladesh

Arctic Ice Melts

Air temperatures warm (Global Warming)

Because of the greenhouse effect

… and the Arctic Ice Cap melts

The Arctic Ice melts

And cools the warm North Atlantic Drift so it stops

So the U.K. is no longer mild in winter….

… We get ice and icebergs!

Canadian Forests

Like cold climates but lie south of the Arctic

Trees here would suffer in warmer climates and drier conditions i.e. they would die out

Forest in British Columbia, Canada

Increased risk of forest fire in drier weather

The Maldives and other low lying islands

may be submerged

To us in the U.K. Global warming might be an inconvenience but

To the people of the Maldives it is a matter of life and death!

The Maldives lie in the Indian Ocean

The Sahel semi-desert drought zone

May get even drier

And become a desert as the Sahara spreads southwards.

They people may be forced to move

To become refugees

Living in camps, begging for food, in the capital city

The Sahel

Region of west Africa

There is a greater and greater shortage of water

Beaches might disappear in the Mediterranean Sea area

As beaches get drowned

Tourists stay away

And hotels lose trade

Tourism fails to bring in money.

The Mediterranean Sea coasts specialise in summer holidays …

For sun starved visitors from northern Europe

As the Tropical seas get warmer

So the risk of hurricanes increases

Every late summer period.

The damage can be devastating

Loss of life in poor countries

Expensive damage to property in richer countries

People in richer countries have insurance

But the extra damage

Causes insurance companies to go bankrupt

Or causes the companies to charge more so people can’t afford insurance

Insurance industry worried about global warming

September 2, 1996

Florida, USA

rich

Caribbean islands

Like Jamaica

poor