Also, due to the fact that more water is reaching the oceans, sea levels have risen by nearly 1 meter over the past century. This puts all coastal cities and shorelines at a risk for flooding. As temperatures increase, many plants and animals will migrate toward the poles as their current habitats become unsuitable. As a result, ecosystems will change and biodiversity will be lost. Approximately 30% of species will become extinct by 2050.
Will climate change result in the extinction of species? Introduction: * Will climate change result in the extinction of species? * Because of green house effect, the earth is increasing in average temperature every year => Global Warming. * Global warming => major climate change happening in our everyday life. Yes, climate change will result in the extinction of species.
Deforestation In Thailand Proposal Large areas of the world’s forest are being destroyed as you read this sentence. Volcanoes are erupting, floods are flooding and fires are burning; but with these occurrences the forest will emerge again to become what it once was. Unfortunately this is not the major reason that the forest are being depleted, Deforestation, the permanent loss of forestland, caused by humans is the main cause. With natural disasters the land is left to replenish itself but with deforestation the land becomes un-sustainable to forest life. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) “estimates that the annual rate of deforestation is about 1.3 million square km per decade, with the main deforestation occurring in the tropics where a wide variety of forest exist”.
Data shows that 136 out of 700 listed cultural heritages throughout the world will be affected in the long term. If global average temperature increases by just one degree Celsius, the water will directly threaten more than 40 of sites. 5 Second, sea level rise influences indigenous communities. Climate change and sea level rise and globally, but it
Furthermore, mercury spreads and destroys plants and animals in the area. All of the above help to cause the greenhouse effect, affecting global warming massively. If this continues the oxygen throughout the world will decrease. A staggering 40% of the world’s oxygen supply comes from the rainforest. Statistics state, and I quote; “at this rate the rainforest only has 28 years left “.
The Awa people are among some of the people losing their land. Not only are people in these areas losing their homeland, but species of animals are losing their homeland as well. Every year the Amazon loses huge amounts of forest. The Amazon helps stabilize local and global climate. “Over the time period documented, August 2012 to February 2013, the rates [of deforestation] increased an estimated 26.82% and an area of the Amazon larger than the size of the city of London disappeared” (“Deforestation Takes Flight in the Amazon”).
Advancing glaciers would have lowered the temperature of the shallow seas therefore such big changes in temperature would alter the amount of oxygen in the water and meant the end for any species that couldn’t adapt. Research shows that approximately 50% of all species became extinct. The Devonian period was the second mass extinction and is known as the “Age of the fish” It is famous for the thousands of species of fish that developed in the Devonian seas. During the late Devonian period, over 408-360 million years ago, ,saw mass extinction and over a fifth of marine families and more than half of marine genera gradually died out over what may have been a ten-million-year interval. Climate and sea-level changes were the causes of the extinction of many types of corals, trilobites and fish with the sponges and coral most greatly effected.
For example, between 50,000 and 100,000 people died during the drought in East Africa which affected the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. These countries have dry climates all year round and increased droughts due to climate change are making the survival of these people more and more difficult. However, not only LICS are affected by droughts, other areas, such as Australia, also suffer. Sydney has been experiencing the worst drought in 100 years, called the Big Dry, which has only recently ended. With global warming and climate change weather is becoming more extreme, with
The high content of carbon causes global warming and global warming causes climate change. These changes are destroying our blue planet and making the ecosystem become sicker. Unfortunately, all the high content of carbon was released by human activities. We must reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions in the next two to three years, or we will lose our natural environment that we depend upon for survival. The 11th Hour shows us the consequences of irreversible global warming that have already begun to affect our life and environment.
Since we have the attention of everyone, now is the best time to take action against global warming. Due to the increasing temperatures every year our public health and our agriculture/food supply is at high risk for new and worse diseases due to global warming; we need to change our climate control policies to protect ourselves. Gases are being trapped inside of earth’s atmosphere like a soda can, and are gradually increasing Earth’s temperatures that ice will start melting and there will be flooding due to rising sea levels; plants and animals will start becoming endangered (as cited in Cooper, 2001). We have already seen coastal flooding in parts of Central America and Bermuda’s forests are now endangered due to flooding (as cited in Clemmitt, 2006). Global warming has been an issue since factories were introduced to this world; gases and toxins are being highly exposed into our atmosphere causing a tremendous reaction to the balance of nature.