Global warming and agricultural impacts

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Global Warming and its agricultural impacts
 
Nowadays, Global warming is a term used to refer to the global temperature increase including possible short term damage in the earth atmosphere and long term damage in oceans. For example, agriculture, production, human being life, between others.
 
The main impact that a global warming cause is what is known as "greenhouse effect". It is anatural atmospheric phenomenon that allows temperature of earth to be constant because it keeps sun energy. This phenomenon does not work in good way anymore; due to carbon dioxide increasing that is mainly produced by cars combustion. Highest level pollution countries are United States, China and Japon due to their condition of world power countries so they have many factories, nuclear plants andoverpopulation that increase pollution levels on earth.
 
Global warming is causing and will be developing unfixed damages such as glaciers melting, severe droughts that causes water level decrease, massive deforestation that brings new deserts, hurricanes, sea level increasing that start coast floods, habitat changes that will cause flora and fauna species extinction because they will not be ableto adapt to the faster weather conditions changes. All this possible consecuences would let humans ask theirselfs if human beings has to do with this phenomenon present in their life’s and development?. According to an article by Ciencia Eco, Blog sobre cultura ecologica , it could be said that men are one of the main causes, due to research’s made by different Scientifics become to the conclusion of the carbon dioxide levels increased after industrial revolution. It was when men action over nature became intense and international scientific community has alerted that if world development, demographic grow and energy consum keep growing the carbon dioxide levels will double.
 
Let’s focus on one of the most important resources for population surviving. It is agriculture. So, whatimpacts global worming did, has and will cause in this matter?. Global worming can be in different ways, like extreme cold, it means a representative temperature low or high temperature that means an overheating on earth. This affects crops constantly because crop production needs appropriate weather conditions so the product is good. For instance, there are crops that would be affected by temperatureincrease such as peaches or like in corn crops lack of water. Those are factors that will be there constantly. In other words, crops will be different which will cause economic imbalance because it will not be able to import or export the same product quantity and quality or they will be obligated to unrise prices or to rise them excessively. As it can be seen, agriculture has been one of theproductive sectors that reflect better global worming in a global level due to a high demand of food, seeds and fuel that could cause irreversible damage to natural resources foundation of what is depended by agriculture. A relation exists between global warming and agriculture. It is that agriculture contributes to global warming in different important ways and global worming has negative impacts onagriculture.
 
In middle and high altitudes regions the increase of temperature could have some benefits on agriculture production, but low latitudes regions an increase of temperature could affect negatively the grow and quality of the crops.

Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change, global warming effects are already visible in much of the world, increased temperatures willultimately reduce the production of the desired crops in other areas of moderate warming can improve performance crops. But in general, the consequences will increasingly negative to positive. Floods and droughts are becoming more frequent and severe, which is likely to seriously affect agricultural productivity and livelihoods of rural communities, and increase the risk of emergence of conflicts...
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