The Negative Effects Of Climate Change In The World

Climate change is arguably one of the most controversial topics in modern science, and undoubtedly one of the most important. Ongoing research has shown that the planet’s climatic temperature has increased slightly yet significantly over the past century. Studies have also found that this warming can be attributed to human activities since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As time goes on and humans continue their harmful actions, climate change and its related effects will continue to negatively impact nearly all living organisms.

Nearly two hundred well-known scientific corporations, including NASA, the American Medical Association, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are all in agreement that recent changes in the earth’s climate are due largely to human activities. An estimated ninety-seven percent of climate scientists are also in consensus that those changes are a result of human activity.

Research has shown that these effects could potentially give rise to another dire threat to humanity – an increase in infectious disease transmission. It is widely known that environmental conditions have a direct effect on the activity of infectious diseases. Many pathogens and vectors thrive in warm, moist, unsanitary surroundings and therefore reproduce and spread with ease in areas like the tropics and impoverished countries. With the environment rapidly changing, cooler regions that were formerly uninhabitable to some pathogens may soon become warm enough to support them. Other problems stemming from climate change, including decreases in biodiversity, species richness, and habitat loss may contribute to the spread of infectious diseases as