How Will Climate Change Affect The World – The effects of human-caused global warming are happening now, are irreversible for humans living today, and will only get worse as humans add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Potential future impacts of global change include more frequent wildfires, longer droughts in some regions, and increased wind intensity and rainfall from tropical cyclones. Credit: left – Mike McMillan/USFS, center – Tomas Castelazo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0, right – NASA.