By Robinson Shaw Global warming caused by human activities continues to impact weather around the world. As much as the world tries not to warm up to heat-trapping greenhouse gases, it continues to warm up from them. Climate change is already causing an increase in the number and intensity of natural disasters, according to a study released Friday by the World Wildlife Fund.
Climate change brings about a global redistribution of the costs and benefits of the weather.
Global warming is the probable, not unequivocal, cause of extreme weather events and related occurrences such as sea-level rise. There is no equivocating that Earth is heating up. Concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons have increased since the pre-industrial age and snowballed since 1960, according to the report. The increase is the result of human activities connected in large part to fossil fuels, land use and industrial processes.