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title: "What is global warming?"  
description: "What is global warming?"  
author: "Mukul Goenka"  
published: 2023-10-18  
updated: 2023-10-20  
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# What is global warming?



## Answers

### Answer by Saumya Mishra

**This refers to an boom in the earth’s floor common temperature as a result of human activities together with emissions of the greenhouse gases into the environment. One of those is the greenhouse gases together with carbon dioxide (CO_2), methane (CH_4) and nitrous oxide (N_2O), which can be capable of maintain inside the warmness that comes out of the sun. This warmness will become stuck as a result causing increment within the worldwide** [**temperature**](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/tags/global-temperatures) **leading to what is called worldwide warming.**

**Mostly, [global warming](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1871/artic-ocean-has-been-warming-four-times-quicker-than-the-rest-of-the-world) is as a result of burning of fossil fuels used for energy [manufacturing](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167329/improving-productivity-within-the-manufacturing-industry) and different sectors. Carbon dioxide is produced at some point of combustion of fossil fuel, which enters the ecosystem and intensifies the herbal greenhouse [impact](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/44109/the-importance-of-b2b-marketers-and-their-impact-on-the-company).**

The effects of global warming encompass:

- Rising worldwide temperatures: This ends in numerous [climate](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301615/the-basics-of-climate-change) and relates results as the common worldwide increases in temperature.
- Melting ice and growing sea stages: The melting of polar glaciers and icebergs from warmings of the planet increases sea degree. These instances may sell a upward push in coastal flooding and erosion.
- More common and intense climate events: [Global](https://www.mindstick.com/account/633815/global) warming can end result to severe [weather](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/104459/the-impact-of-the-hot-weather-in-britain) situations like heat waves, extra common and intense storms, even storm.
- Altered weather styles: It is a cause of weather shifts which results into weather disturbances like modifications in precipitation, draught, and shifts within ecosystems.
- Ocean acidification: [Increase](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2333/mahindra-s-q4-profit-increased-by-46-as-vehicle-sales-increased-by-75) of [carbon](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/tags/carbon-dioxide) dioxide inside the air reasons increase of C02 [content](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12427/4-types-of-blog-phrases-that-keep-content-readers-engaged) inside the coastal sea inflicting ocean acidification. It is capable of even casting off marine organisms which have CaCO3 shell and bones.
- Impact on ecosystems and biodiversity: Through international warming species risk extinction due to habitat displacement, changed migrating routes and wellknown reduction in biodiversity.


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