Truly there are many ways in which climate change affects our daily lives.Glaciers and polar ice are melting and sea levels are rising. Record high temperatures, severe rainstorms and drought are becoming more common. To many, these changes may have seemed abstract a few years ago, but they are having significant impacts on humans today and are threatening to get worse in the future.Three key ingredients -- sunlight, warm air, and pollution from power plants and cars -- combine to produce smog in the air we breathe. Higher air temperatures increase smog.Also, disease-carrying insects, previously stopped by cold winters, are moving to higher atitudes, such from the equator toward North America.Moreover In some parts of the world,the ragweed pollen season is lasting longer because of rising temperatures linked to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphereTruly there are many ways in which climate change affects our daily lives.Glaciers and polar ice are melting and sea levels are rising. Record high temperatures, severe rainstorms and drought are beco...See more
