Helga’s Introduction

Dear Readers……

I know this diagram is very complicated, but it is important to understand how Climate Change and Global Warming work and how they are Destroying the Planet. It starts with:

• Fossil fuel consumption, coal; and oil
• The effects of intensive agriculture and
• Deforestation

Then: Creation of VERY NASTY Greenhouse Gases

• Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Water Vapour,

Giving rise to Global Warming and Climate Change.

This in turn leads to Highly Negative Environmental effects:

• Destruction of habitats, killing animals, trees, seas
• Collapse of ecosystems, which support us all
• species extinction and loss of biodiversity and
• Reduced sunlight reflection,
• Melting permafrost, ‘specially in the Arctic

And an intensification of extreme weather events

• Heat,
• hurricanes,
• floods,
• droughts and
• wildfires

Causing Glacial and ice sheet melting, freshwater loss and desertification, (deserts where there was once farmland); Coral bleaching, sea level rises and coastal submersion – and serious declines in fish stocks

Then, an increase in pest propagation, and disease carriers.

All of this has in turn disastrous Effects on Humans

• Direct impacts on Health
• Flooding of cities and farmland
• Crop failure and loss of farmland
• Starvation, migration and conflict
• Direct physical harm caused by extreme weather events

So, dear readers, you can go on to browse the section which has lots of interesting and terrifying pictures!!