Question

How does atmosphere affect our daily life

Answer 1

Depends on where you live and where you travel, because the effects of global warming are complex, falling within the realm of chaos mathematics rather than the calculus.

In general, you can expect greater extremes of weather and less certainty about your climate. 

If you live at sea level on a coast, you may wind up having to move a ways inland during your lifetime. 

In fact, in sea level island nations like Kiribati they're already having to plan to leave their country en masse during the next few decades--salt water intrusion into the water table is already making agriculture impossible in many places. 

That happens long before much of the affected land is underwater. 

But apart from coastal areas, you have to realize that climate patterns proceed in a zigzaggy way that is not predictable in detail--only overall. 

And while it's going on right now, the severest effects will probably be experienced by future generations.

Unless we reach a tipping point. This is not well understood and may or may not happen, but it does appear to be the case that both warming and cooling trends produce feedback loops that makes such changes nonlinear. 

So we could see changes happening very slowly, but then they could accelerate shockingly fast. One alarming change would be if the permafrost generally melted, releasing a huge amount of methane into the environment, which is even more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. 

And even if we quit pouring greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere today, global warming will proceed regardless for many decades.

Another effect of global warming is all the oceans becoming more acidic. This is starting to interfere with shellfish reproduction and hard coral growth. In time it may exterminate the world's hard corals and oceanic shellfish. 

If you're an oyster farmer in Puget Sound, you're already having to deal with this, as the Puget Sound area is acidifying more quickly than averag