Global warming is a problem that could have devastating long term consequences. As the National Resource Defense Council notes, if we don’t do something soon to prevent this, “Sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas. Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense. Droughts and wildfires will occur more often. Disease-carrying mosquitos will expand their range. And species will be pushed to extinction. Many of these changes have already begun.

Global warming is a problem that could have devastating long term consequences. As the National Resource Defense Council notes, if we don’t do something soon to prevent this, “Sea levels will rise, flooding coastal areas. Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense. Droughts and wildfires will occur more often. Disease-carrying mosquitos will expand their range. And species will be pushed to extinction.

Many of these changes have already begun.