Global warming
...itute between 1975 and 1991 skin cancer increased by 812 percent. “El Nino made1998 the warmest year ever recorded”(Bell 129). The warm temperature resulted in the worldwide outbreak of mosquitoes. With the warm temperatures mosquitoes were infected with different diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, rift valley fever and several other kinds of diseases. The World Health Organization said there were “quantitative leaps” in malaria cases around the world. “Thousands were infected with Rift Valley fever in Kenya, resulting in 200 deaths”(129). Many people around the world think that the earth is in danger because of global warming. “Rising temperatures will have enormous impact on the earth in the future”(pewtrust). With the temperatures rising this will cause the icebergs to melt and make the sea level rise. “Rising sea levels inundating coastal communities, altered crop yields and water supplies, increased floods and droughts and surge in infectious disease. The water will be tainted because of the water runoff pushing chemicals into our water supply. This will cause people to get sick or even die. With it getting hotter the carbon dioxide levels are rising. This may cause weeds to grow faster and take over the crops we need. Paul R. Epstein, a doctor from Harvard Medical School found a very interesting fact in his research that discussed how many people he estimates are going to be affected by global warming in the future. Epstein also stated, “In some places, the number of deaths related to heat waves is projected to double by 2020”(Morse, 34). Gonzalo Pimental, a professor of ecology and of entomology in Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, discussed what things he believed were causing global warming and the risk of diseases that he found. Pimental stated, “We’re seeing the first signs that global climate can influence the incidences of human diseases…Most of the increase in disease is due to numerous environmental factors including infectious microbes, pollution by chemical and biological wastes, and shortage of food and nutrients and the global warming will only make matters worse”(33). Jim Motavall found out how dramatic global warming is to humans when he explained an experience that already occurred in another country through his res...