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Over the past century, climate-warming has been caused mostly by human activities. Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Past evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. Global climate is known to continue to change over this century and beyond. The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat-trapping gases emitted globally.

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Life on Earth depends on energy coming from the sun. About half the light reaching Earth's atmosphere passes through the air and clouds to the surface, where it is absorbed and then radiated upward in the form of infrared heat. Most of this heat is then absorbed by the greenhouse gases and radiated back toward the Earth's surface. A layer of greenhouse gases, in large part water vapor, and including much smaller amounts of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, forms a thermal blanket for the Earth, absorbs heat and warms the surface to a life-supporting average temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit (15 degrees Celsius). And that is the main cause of today's global warming, the human expansion of the "greenhouse effect", warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of 0.302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.

Over the past century, climate-warming has been caused mostly by human activities. Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earth’s climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Past evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. Global climate is known to continue to change over this century and beyond. The magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat-trapping gases emitted globally.

The consequences of changing the natural atmospheric greenhouse are difficult to predict, but certain effects are very likely. On average, Earth will become warmer. Some areas may welcome warmer temperatures, but others may not. Warmer conditions may lead to more evaporation and precipitation overall, but individual areas will vary, some becoming wetter and others dryer. A stronger greenhouse effect will warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers, increasing sea level. Ocean water also will expand if it warms, contributing further to sea level rise. Melting sea ice, such as the Arctic ice cap, does not change sea level because the ice only displaces its volume. Crops and other plants may respond favorably to increased atmospheric CO₂, growing more vigorously and using water more efficiently. And higher temperatures and shifting climate patterns may change the areas where crops grow best and affect the formation of natural plant communities.

Global warming is affecting sea ice, glaciers and continental ice sheets world wide. Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world — including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa. The amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the snow is melting earlier. Warming ocean will cause most Antarctic ice shelf mass to melt. Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Greenland lost 150 to 250 cubic kilometers (36 to 60 cubic miles) of ice per year between 2002 and 2006, while Antarctica lost about 152 cubic kilometers (36 cubic miles) of ice between 2002 and 2005.

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Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, global warming would continue to happen in the future for at least several more decades if not centuries. That’s because it takes a while for the planet to adjust, and also because carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. In the absence of major action to reduce emissions, global temperature will rise by an average of 6 °C (10.8 °F). A global disaster is already unfolding at the poles of the planet as we observed and shown that the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer within just a few years. Many devastating forest fires will continue to be of common occurrence and intensified, aggravated, and exacerbated by more heat due to global warming.

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More devastating forests fires, including all of those in urban settings, and everywhere in the world mean less Oxygen, more carbon dioxide (CO2), and less trees to fight against the global warming of our planet. Most fires are also a terrible lost to people and all life on Earth.

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Overall, volcanoes release about 5 percent of the equivalent amount of CO₂ released by humans. Once every 20 years there is a volcanic eruption that throws out a large amount of particles and gases. These will effectively shield us enough from the sun to lead to a period of global cooling. The particles and gases typically dissipate after about 2 years, but the effect is nearly global.

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Climate change comprises global warming and refers to the broader range of changes that are happening on our planet. These include rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers, accelerating ice melt in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic, and shifts in flower/plant blooming times. The Arctic Ocean is expected to become essentially ice free in summer before mid-century. These are all consequences of the warming, which is caused mainly by people burning fossil fuels and putting out heat-trapping gases into the air. Rising sea levels have been observed at a faster rate than over the past 40 years; sea levels rising have disastrous consequences for islands and low-level coastal areas. Soon all large coatal cities will be affected. Weather refers to the more local changes in the climate we see around us, on short timescales from minutes to hours to days to weeks. Examples are: rain, snow, clouds, winds, thunderstorms, heat waves and floods. “Climate” refers to longer-term averages (they may be regional or global), and can be thought of as the weather averaged over several seasons, years or decades. Climate change is harder for us to get a sense of because the timescales involved are much longer, and the impact of climate changes can be long term.

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Rising sea level originates first from by the global warming of our planet which has caused the thermal expansion of the ocean water and the melting of glaciers and ice cover on land. Sea level rises can considerably influence human populations in coastal and island regions and natural environments like marine ecosystems. As carbon dioxide traps more heat on the planet, the oceans get warmer and expand in volume. Second, ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica as well as other glaciers start melting, pouring more water into the oceans.

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Because of ongoing and potential loss of their sea ice habitat resulting from global warming, polar bears are an endangered species. The survival and the protection of the polar bear habitat are urgent issues of Global Civilization. If polar bears were to go extinct, the population of walruses, seals, whales, reindeer, rodents and birds would increase and get out of control.

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In summary, carbon is present throughout the natural environment in many forms. It is present in the air as carbon dioxide, and contributes to the "Greenhouse Effect" and is causing the global warming of our planet. The global carbon cycle includes an exchange between plant, root, soil and lifeform respiration and photosynthesis, ocean exchange, auto and factory emissions, changing land use through development, and cement manufacture contributes greenhouse gases both directly through the production of carbon dioxide when calcium carbonate is thermally decomposed, producing lime and carbon dioxide, and also through the use of energy, particularly from the combustion of fossil fuels. Human respiration and activities such as mining, industrialization, and automobile use are the most important causes of the global warming of our planet.

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The potential for new trade routes in the Artic will significantly reduce the time needed to transport goods between Europe, Asia, and the Americas. More goods being moved daily across oceans by thousands of container ships fuelled by the worst and dirtiest fossil fuels whose residues are constantly dumped into the oceans and the extremely loud sound from their engines propogate in the ocean water deafening many fish and ocean mammals, and destroy their hearing organs, thus rendering them unable to relie on sound to communicate, navigate, and find foods. That is truly an unsustainable state of affairs for life on Earth and now the future state of affairs in the Artic.

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More fossil fuel carbon in ocean, air, and corals, ocean warming, cause extensive damage to Coral Reefs. Coral reefs are the most diverse of all marine ecosystems. They team with life, with perhaps one quarter of all ocean species depending on reefs for food and shelter. In fact the variety of life supported by coral reefs rivals that of the tropical forests of the Amazon or New Guinea. But without urgent action to address climate change, pollution, overfishing and other threats these beautiful and life-sustaining organisms could disappear.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (1750-1900), the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.

Global warming leads to coral bleaching and changes ocean chemistry, leading to ocean acidification.

Cow belching due to enteric fermentation. (“Enteric fermentation” is the digestive process of converting sugars into simple molecules for absorption into the bloodstream, which produces methane as a by-product.) is a source of methane. However, a small percentage of methane is also produced in the cow’s large intestine and then expelled. Settling ponds and lagoons for processing manure also produce copious amounts of this greenhouse gas.

Over past centuries, America along with European nations nations have always been at war with one another and the world to grab whatever they could whatever the costs. WWII is an obvious example of European nations trying again to destroy Russia (the USRR), Germany being the worst warmonger, and the other European nations and America watching Russian people fighting for their land and livelihood being destroyed. After seeing Russian people fighting and defeating the German Army, Hitler Red Army troops, and winning the war without any Allies help, then Allies decided it was time to finally show up and fought the remaining small German trops left over in Europe. Over 20 million Russian lives were killed and much of the URSS land and livelihood destroyed by the European Hittler army. Today the so called "Allies" still have their eyes on Russia's natural resources and are creating conflicts and wars in the world and also grabbing other nations natural reources.
The dirty tar sands oil of Alberta, Canada, is fuelling war machines, the war industry and USA military. These activities must stop. The tar sands oil is produced, transported across land and oceans, processed, and its by-products used to fabricate war products for more destruction around the world, and thus more dirty oil is needed to reconstruct communities and, once more, destruction occurs. It is an ever lasting cycle of violence, destruction, pollution, war and civil unrests. All of that because the USA CEOs of oil and gas corporations and their sharholders want more money and power over the 99% of the people all over the world. And when all the dirty oil is used up, our atmosphere, the air we breathe, our oceans and soils, and the ecology of our planet will be gone forever. This will happen this century, soon, unless we stop them.

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Social and health impacts of climate change:
* air pollution causes asthma and cardiovascular disease;
* severe weather causes injuries, fatalities, and mental health problems;
* pollution and pollen seasons will increase leading to more allergies and asthma problems; increase allergens cause respiratory allergies and asthma;
* environmental degradation causes civil conflict, forced migration, amd mental health impacts;
* water and food supply impacts cause malnutrition and diarrheal disease;
* water quality impacts cause cholera, cryptosporidiosis, campylobacter,
leptospirosis, and harmful algal blooms; and
* changes in Vector Ecology causes West Nile virus, Lyme disease, malaria, chikungunya, encephalitis, Rift Valley fever, and hantavirus.
* people at risk: those living in poverty, as well as women, children and the elderly; outdoor workers and people living with chronic medical conditions; children are the most vulnerable due to long exposure to environmental risks; those living in megacities, small island development states and other coastal, mountainous and polar regions; countries with weak health systems will be least able to prepare and respond to climate change; hunger and famine will increase as food production is destabilised by drought; warmer waters and flooding will increase exposures to diseases in drinking and recreational waters.

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Global Civilization vision to saving our species on our planet is very clear, when you do exploration work, develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end. This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, construction products, transportation and communications products and equipment, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products! All medical products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person (a person may be an individual, a community, a government, a business, an NGO, or an institution) becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything you do.

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Global Civilization has shown that at the world level, there will not be sufficient agricultural production to meet increases in demand over the next thirty years. By 2030, climate change due to global warming will start having significant impacts on food production, and crop production in developing countries is projected to be significantly less than in the 1990s. A global ministry on food production and distribution is therefore a most needed institution. We will have to produce less livestock as we effectively double the population we need to feed: ourselves, plus the livestock that is supposed to be feeding us. We also have to apportion the land surface of the whole world more efficiently, using some for highly intensive food production (which makes use of less land), some for extensive agriculture (combining food production with wildlife conservation) and designing some specifically as wilderness areas with global corridors between them.

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Justice for all with Global Law

Global Civilization is calling for the immediate formation of the Earth Ministry of Health. The globalization of trade, the extensive movement of people all over the world, the increase of poverty and diseases in developing countries and all over the world, have caused pathogens and exotic diseases to migrate over enormous distances and now, are an increasing threat to local ecosystems and communities, economies and health of every human being and all life. Global Civilization is calling this threat of the upmost importance and must be dealt with immediately by every nation. We must manage health in the world. We are calling for the immediate creation of the Earth Ministry of Health.

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The Scale of Global Rights shows social values in order of importance, and so helps us truly understand the rights of an individual and a community for humanity's survival on our planet.