One common cause of hammertoe is related to wearing high-heeled style shoes or overly narrow shoes that crowd the toes. The muscles of the toes work in pairs in order to achieve straightening and bending movements of the joints in the toe.
The climate cools any time more energy returns to space than comes in from the Sun. While humans can influence that balance, other factors, from continental drift and changes in the shape of the Earthâs orbit to variations in the Sunâs activity and phenomena like El NiÃ±o, can all influence the climate.
Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves.