Benefits of global warming | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 16/05/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming


00:02:21 1 Definitions
00:04:41 2 Temperature changes
00:06:03 2.1 SRES emissions scenarios
00:10:49 2.2 Projected warming in context
00:12:13 3 Physical impacts
00:14:04 3.1 Effects on weather
00:15:52 3.1.1 Extreme weather
00:20:56 3.2 Cryosphere
00:23:19 3.3 Oceans
00:25:00 3.3.1 Oxygen depletion
00:25:19 3.3.2 Sea level rise
00:29:51 3.3.3 Ocean temperature rise
00:31:32 4 Regional effects
00:34:17 5 Social systems
00:35:33 5.1 Food supply
00:36:55 5.1.1 Projections
00:39:10 5.1.1.1 Food security
00:41:20 5.1.2 Droughts and agriculture
00:42:20 5.2 Health
00:43:52 5.2.1 Projections
00:45:44 5.3 Water resources
00:51:59 5.4 Migration and conflict
00:55:46 5.5 Aggregate impacts
00:56:47 5.5.1 Observed impacts
00:57:50 5.5.2 Projected impacts
01:00:27 6 Biological systems
01:00:38 6.1 Observed impacts on biological systems
01:01:40 6.2 Projected impacts on biological systems
01:05:57 7 Abrupt or irreversible changes
01:08:49 7.1 Biogeochemical cycles
01:10:42 7.2 Greenland and West Antarctic Ice sheets
01:11:37 7.3 Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
01:13:52 7.4 Irreversibilities
01:14:02 7.4.1 Commitment to radiative forcing
01:15:57 7.4.2 Irreversible impacts
01:17:15 8 Scientific opinion
01:19:02 8.1 NASA data and tools
01:20:07 9 See also
01:20:17 10 Footnotes



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The effects of global warming are the environmental and social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases. There is a scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, and that human activities are the primary driver. Many impacts of climate change have already been observed, including glacier retreat, changes in the timing of seasonal events (e.g., earlier flowering of plants), and changes in agricultural productivity. 
Anthropogenic forcing has likely contributed to some of the observed changes, including sea level rise, changes in climate extremes, declines in Arctic sea ice extent and glacier retreat.Future effects of climate change will vary depending on climate change policies and social development. The two main policies to address climate change are reducing human greenhouse gas emissions (climate change mitigation) and adapting to the impacts of climate change. Geoengineering is another policy option.Near-term climate change policies could significantly affect long-term climate change impacts. Stringent mitigation policies might be able to limit global warming (in 2100) to around 2 °C or below, relative to pre-industrial levels. Without mitigation, increased energy demand and extensive use of fossil fuels might lead to global warming of around 4 °C. Higher magnitudes of global warming would be more difficult to adapt to, and would increase the risk of negative impacts.This article doesn't cover ocean acidification, which is directly caused by atmospheric carbon dioxide, not global warming.