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Mention any two harmful effects of Global Warming.
What are the threats from Global Warming?
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Solution
Some of the threats/Harmful effects of global warming are as follows:
- Extinction of many animals including migratory birds.
- Increase in storms, damaging the breeding of sea birds and sea animals.
- Rise in sea level destroying beach nesting shelter of sea turtles.
- Decline in number of male sea turtles creating imbalance in the ecosystem.
- Growing water scarcity in many regions could further destroy the wetlands areas on which migrating water fowl depend.
- Heat waves leading to heat strokes, heart attacks and other heart related ailments.
- Imbalance in glacier mean causing glacier retreat around the world.
- Global warming may shut down or slow down the thermohaline circulation leading to changes in the ocean current.
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