Effects of Global Warming Global warming refers to the situation where the general temperatures of the earth rise steadily. Though debates have always come up with an attempt of finding out the causes of global warming, I am convinced far and away that the acts of the human kind play a role in global warming. The effects of global warming refer to the happenings that come about due to global warming. Scientists have always held the opinion that the effects of global warming will come into existence in the years to come. Nevertheless, our planet earth seems to have got it wrong this time round, because the effects of global warming are already visible.