Global+Warming

Global Warming **GO GREEN** = = toc =Causes=

=How it started= Global warming never actually has a start and end point. Global warming has always been here. There have been climate changes through out our Earth's history. Global warming is natural. So you might be asking if it's natural then what's the problem? To answer your question, the problem is the causes of climate change and how rapid this change is occurring. Unfortunately, humans are the ones to blame. Every day we humans pollute the air and use up natural resources. We release excessive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. Releasing all this carbon dioxide in to the air causes the Earth's temperature to rise at a very fast rate, therefore increasing the rate of global warming.

Gases in Air
Almost 100% of the observed temperature increase over the last 50 years has been due to the increase in the atmosphere of greenhouse gas concentrations like water vapor, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and ozone. Greenhouse gases are those gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect (see below). The largest contributing source of greenhouse gas is the burning of fossil fuels leading to the emission of carbon dioxide.

Factories
Factory pollution is the number one source with over 40% of the pollution causing global warming.More than 365,000 manufacturing factories consume quantities of fresh water to carry away wastes of several different types.The waste water from industrial factories discharges into oceans, lakes, and streams which eventually disperse the polluting substances. It is the effect of years of burning fossil fuels. Actually factories is one cause of why people have asthma. Factories cause air pollution which one of them is called nitrous oxide which is very powerful like carbon dioxide that can cause bacterial background. Factory pollution also includes chlorofluorocarbons, which have been to destroy the ozone layer. Nitrogen oxides combine with hydrocarbon gases to produce what is known as 'smog'. Tropospheric ozone is another type of pollutant of factory pollution. This type of ozone is created when nitrogen oxides interact with hydrocarbon gases. The ozone reduces the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the earth's surface. Though at lower levels it is an irritating gas. Another troublesome factor of factory pollution refers to thermal damage power plants cause to the environment. They increase the normal temperature of the waters which is directly connected to the quantity of oxygen present in a certain volume of liquid. When there is a thermal imbalance the entire ecosystem suffers the consequences. Factory pollution is responsible for mutations in the size of species and the extinction of the more fragile organisms. The pollution problem continues to be an increasing area of concern. [|link] Parents always say to their kids not to smoke. So does that count if all the factory gases have the same effects as smoking? Why not just let them smoke!!!! Do something!

Senate makes it harder to pass global warming bill!
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is making it tougher to pass the cap-and-trade legislation President Barack Obama wants as part of an effort to reduce global warming. Lawmakers voted 67-31 on Wednesday to deny the legislation a filibuster-proof path through the Senate. That means 60 votes instead of a simple majority will be needed to pass the cap-and-trade proposal. Republicans and Democrats are wary of Obama's proposal to allow the government to auction permits to companies to emit greenhouse gases, with the costs of the permits being passed on to consumers. As the minority party in the Senate, Republicans had feared that Democratic leaders would use filibuster-proof rules to push through the cap-and-trade legislation.

Livestock
Cows emit methane gas from their behinds. According to Cecil, "Details aside, animal methane does present a definite threat to the biota. It's believed 18 percent of the greenhouse effect is caused by methane, putting it second on the list of offending gases behind carbon dioxide. Methane breaks down in the atmosphere to form carbon dioxide, ozone, and water, all of which absorb heat. The temperature of the atmosphere rises, the ice caps melt, and next thing you know you're pumping the Atlantic Ocean out of your basement." [|Link] So every time you eat beef, you're helping to save the planet.

=Effects= The climate is changing. The earth is warming up, and there is now overwhelming scientific consensus that it is happening, and human-induced. With global warming on the increase and species and their habitats on the decrease, chances for ecosystems to adapt naturally are diminishing. Many are agreed that climate change may be one of the greatest threats facing the planet. Recent years show increasing temperatures in various regions, and/or increasing extremities in weather patterns. This section looks at what causes climate change, what the impacts are and where scientific consensus currently is.[|link]

Deforestation
Deforestation is the second principle cause of atmospheric carbon dioxide.It is responsible for 20-25% of all carbon emissions entering the atmosphere, by the burning and cutting of about 34 million acres of trees each year. We are also loosing millions of acres of rain forests. each year. Deforestation is brought by the conversions of forests and woodlands to agricultural land to feed growing numbers of people. Also the development of cash crops and cattle ranching and felling of trees for firewood and building material. The consequences of deforestation is this can lead to an increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration since CO2 is the major contributor to the greenhouse effect. It can also cause soil erosion with the loss of vegetation and soil being lost. Even extinction of species which depend on forests for survival. Some things people can do to help is plant indigenous trees and use wood sparingly in an age conscious of the destruction of forests and car manufacturers that have begun to cut veneers. [|link]

Endangered Animals
[|Sign a Petition] There has been some endangered animals caused by global warming. Polar bears is an example of a species being endangered by extinction. Polar bears are dying because they are drowning because they can't swim the long distances, often more than 60 miles on occasion, from one ice flow to another. Polar bears could be extinct by 2050 if greenhouse gas-fueled global warming keeps melting their Arctic sea-ice habitat. Penguins are also endangered animals towards extinction. The emperor penguin endures almost hardships to breed and nurture each new generation. Fasting for months through the planet's harshest weather weather. Penguin species are in danger of extinction since krill, the keystone of the Antarctic marine food chain, has declined by as much as 80 percent over large areas of the Southern Ocean. Many penguin species also compete with industrial fisheries for food, and their survival and reproduction rely on a delicate balance, to which a single disruption can come catastrophic. Bow head whales are also in the process of extincting since their habitat is being disturbed and polluted by offshore oil development. And as CO2 warms our planet, the arctic ice pack is rapidly melting. The whales are in danger of noise, oil spills, and deadly collisions with ships, while global warming is steadily melting their icy abode and reducing available food. Bearded seals are also extincting since they need the ice's solid surface to carry out basic survival activities, from resting to molting to raising young. So as ice sea dwindles due to global warming, so does the hope for these seals' long-term survival. [|link]

Effects
The predicted effects of global warming not only impact the environment, but human life as well. Effects of global warming on the environment include glaciers, ecosystems, [|ocean currents], and sea level. Impacts on the human level include financial matters and the spread of disease. The most popular effect of global warming is its’ impact on glaciers. Global warming has so far and will continue to have negative effects on the glacier mass balance. From 1900-1980 there has been a recorded decline from 144 to 142 mountain glaciers. From 1980 to 2002 there has been a recorded net decline in all but a few mountain glacier masses. The biggest concern would be the failure of the glaciers in Hindu Kush and the Himalayas. These glaciers are the main water supply for China, India, and most of Asia. The complete melting of these glaciers would result in a major flow for several decades, however after that the most populated areas in the world could potentially run out of water. Other effects of global warming include predicted impacts on the ecosystems and ocean currents. The continued increase in temperature will scientifically lessen the snow cap, create a rise in sea level, and produce weather changes. The combination of the effects of global warming will cause a change in the ecosystems. This change can potentially force animals out of their habitats endangering their existence and possibly even forcing them into extinction, while other animals may flourish. There is also the belief that global warming can affect ocean currents. An example of this would be the slowdown and likely shutdown of thermohaline circulation. This would lead to the localized cooling in the North Atlantic region such as Scandinavia and Britain who are warmed by the North Atlantic Drift. In addition to the environment, human life will also be greatly affected by the increasing average temperature of the Earth. Global warming has the ability to increase the areas that bread such diseases as malaria, bluetongue disease, Hantavirus infection, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, tularemia, and rabies. Increases in several of these diseases have already been recorded in the north Mediterranean region and Russia. As previously mentioned, global warming will in turn increase the height of sea level. A slight increase in sea level will make some densely populated coastal areas completely uninhabitable. For example, if the sea level raised a total of 4 meters practically every coastal city in the world would be drastically impacted creating major impacts on the world’s trade and economy. Within the next millennium a predicted 200 million people will be devastated with loss due to an irreversible glacier melt and rise in sea level. By 2100 the sea level is probably to rise 1 meter. Between the rise in sea level and the prediction of severe weather conditions, there will be a significant increase cost in insurance, disaster relief, tax payers, and industry. The world’s two largest companies, Munich Re and Swiss Re have already been warned in 2002 that the effects of global warming will cost them 150 billion US dollars each year in the next decade. If the causes of global warming, such as carbon dioxide emission were limited the amount of tropical cyclones will decrease by almost 80% in the next 75 years. The Past year alone has been proven to be the most costly year yet due to natural disasters.

=Present Danger of Global Warming= Source : http://www.ecobridge.org/content/g_dgr.htm#deaths

Deaths Due to Climate Change
A study, by scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that 154,000 people die every year from the effects of global warming, from malaria to malnutrition, children in developing nations seemingly the most vulnerable. These numbers could almost double by 2020. "We estimate that climate change may already be causing in the region of 154,000 deaths...a year," Professor Andrew Haines of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told a climate change conference in Moscow. Haines said the study suggested climate change could "bring some health benefits, such as lower cold-related mortality and greater crop yields in temperate zones, but these will be greatly outweighed by increased rates of other diseases." Haines mentioned that small shifts in temperatures, for instance, could extend the range of mosquitoes that spread malaria. Water supplies could be contaminated by floods, for instance, which could also wash away crops.

Increases of Storms and Floods
Dr. Thomas Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center (NOAA), says that global warming has produced an increase in precipitation during the 20th century, mostly in the form of heavy rainstorms, little in moderate, beneficial rainstorms. Thomas Karl also reports that recent decades have produced a 20% increase in blizzards and heavy rainstorms in the U.S. "Hundred-year events are become more frequent now," notes Karl. In a report issued in November, 1999 the Britain's Meteorological Office warned that flooding in Asia and Southeast Asia would increase more than ninefold over the coming decades. Floods are already increasing worldwide. The year 1998 was the worst on record, with 96 floods in 55 countries. Scientists are saying that global warming is causing early snow melts. During the month of December 1996 and the first week of January 1997 unusually warm weather caused an early snow melt that resulted in record flooding in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Nevada and Montana. These floods forced about 500,000 people to leave their homes. In California alone state officials estimated flood damage to homes and businesses at $1.6 billion

Weather Related Natural Disasters
On November 28, 1998 the San Francisco Chronicle ran an Associated Press article reporting that dollar damages from weather-related natural disasters (floods, storms, droughts, fires) worldwide for 1998 totaled $89 billion. (The final figure for 1998 was to be $93 billion.) Total damages for the __entire decade__ of the 1980's were $83 billion (this is the inflation-adjusted figure; actual figure was $54 billion). Damage totals for the 1990's soared above $340 billion, a 300% increase over the 1980's.

Killer Heat Waves
In June, 2003, 1700 people died during a heat wave that hit India, while 35,000 Europeans died in a heat wave the following August. In July, 1999 more than 250 people died from an unrelenting heat wave that seared the eastern U.S. Temperatures climbed above 110 degrees Fahrenheit across the Midwest, with Chicago recording a record 119 degrees. It was July, 1995 when more than 1000 people died from heat-related causes in a heat wave in the mid west, over 700 of whom died in Chicago, 85 died in Milwaukee. "High temperatures are likely to become more extreme, and because night temperatures will increase by at least as much as daytime temperatures, heat waves will become more serious," says Dr. Thomas Karl, at the National Climatic Data Center.

Islands are Endangered by Rising Seas

 * An article in the fall, 1996 issue of the Earth Island Journal reported that rising seas are about to inundate Pate and Ndau, two small islands near the Indian Ocean resort island of Lamu. Kenya has announced plans to spend $517,000 to build walls shielding these islands from the rising surf.
 * In June, 1997, Jacob Nena, president of Micronesia said some of his country's smaller atolls have been abandoned due to rising seas. In addition to rising sea levels, the highly populated atoll of Nuduoro has been victimized by floods due to increasing storm activity, a symptom of global warming.
 * The Maldives environmental minister, Abdul Rasheed Hussain, said that his country's tourism industry is threatened by constant erosion of its beaches. Noted in the San Francisco Chronicle (June 25, 1997).
 * Government officials of the islands, Antigua and Bermuda, in the Caribbean, are convinced that global warming is the cause of a number of recent hurricanes including a 1994 storm that wiped out virtually the entire economy. Noted in San Francisco Chronicle article of February 11, 1997.
 * The island state of Kiribati (population, 75,000) is being threatened with rising seas, engulfing homes and crops. These are rising sea levels, surges during sunny weather. Says one islander, "It's nice weather, and all of a sudden water is pouring into your living room."
 * Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands, where islets are in some places only as wide as the two-lane road that traverses each of them, a single wave often sprays the country from coast to coast. The cost of protecting the capital alone with a seawall would be insurmountable, costing up to three times the total national economic output.
 * In November, 2000 Teleke P. Lauti, assistant minister of natural resources and environment of Tuvalu, traveled to The Hague, Netherlands to plead to those negotiating the final draft of the Kyoto Protocol. Tuvalu is an island state, comprising a number of low-lying islands, altogether about 1/7th the size of Washington D.C.and located directly west of Australia and north of New Zealand. He told negotiators that his country faces the threat of storm surges that wash directly across the entire island. It is happening now. As the fate of Tuvalu and its 10,000 inhabitants seems hopeless against the encroaching waters, the government of Tuvalu is weighing whether or not to purchase land in another country. Mr. Lauti says, "When a cyclone hits us, there is no place to escape. We cannot climb any mountains or move away to take refuge. It is hard to describe the effects of a cyclonic storm surge when it washes right across our islands. I would not want to wish this experience anyone."

Coral Bleaching
Although coral reefs cover less than 0.2% of the ocean's area, they contain 25% of marine fish species (Roberts et al., 1998). [|See State Department Web Site.] An example of coral reef biodiversity are the reefs of the Florida Keys, which sustain 500 species of fish, more than 1700 species of mollusks, five species of sea turtles, and hundreds of species of sponges. Coral bleaching is happening all over the world in many countries. Whenever coral is stressed by higher water temperatures, even only 2 or 3 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, it may expel the algae that nourishes it and gives the coral its color, thus coral bleaching. Coral usually recovers from bleaching, but it cannot survive the stress of constant warming waters. Second to rainforests in biodiversity of species, coral reefs have been called the rainforests of the sea. An example of coral reef biodiversity are the reefs of the Florida Keys, which sustain 500 species of fish, more than 1700 species of mollusks, five species of sea turtles, and hundreds of species of sponges. Lose the algae that sustains the coral, we lose the fisheries that depend on the coral. John Ogden, a marine biologist and director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography says that coral reefs provide about 10% of global fisheries, “fish going directly into the mouths of the people who need the protein the most, the coastal populations of Third World countries.” In a report released at the 9th Int’l Coral Reef Symposium in Bali, Indonesia (October 2000), Indonesian researchers noted that about 27% of the world's coral reefs have been destroyed. Most of the remaining coral could be dead in 20 years, if global warming and pollution continue. [|[100]] “Reefs are tough,” says Clive Wilkinson, a biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. “You can hammer them with cyclones, and they’ll bounce right back. What they can’t bounce back from is chronic, constant stress.” Coral is being stressed by human activity from every direction: Cyanide fishing, harbor dredging, coral mining, deforestation, coastal development, agricultural runoff, careless divers, and now global warming. During the latter half of the 1990's surface sea temperatures set new records for temperature highs, climbing above 86 degrees, producing widespread bleaching, especially in the Indian Ocean. Over a vast stretch of the Indian Ocean, from the African coast to southern India, 70% of the coral appears to have died. [|[35]] Thomas Goreau, president of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, says that of the 207 coral reef sites his organization tracks worldwide, almost 75% experienced surface temperatures high enough to bring about bleaching in 1998. More than half of these corals were killed by the bleaching.

Devastating Loss of Coral in the Caribbean
In March, 2006 researchers discovered devastating loss of coral in the Caribbean off Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. "It's an unprecedented die-off," said National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller, who last week checked 40 official monitoring stations in the Virgin Islands. "The mortality that we're seeing now is of the extremely slow-growing reef-building corals. These are corals that are the foundation of the reef ... We're talking colonies that were here when Columbus came by have died in the past three to four months."...............Miller noted that some of the devastated coral can never be replaced because it only grows the width of one dime each year.

If coral reefs die "you lose the goose with golden eggs" that are key parts of small island economies, said Edwin Hernandez-Delgado, a University of Puerto Rico biology researcher. While investigating the widespread loss of Caribbean coral, Hernandez-Delgado found a colony of 800-year-old star coral — more than 13 feet high — that had just died in the waters off Puerto Rico.........."We did lose entire colonies," he said. "This is something we have never seen before."

"We haven't seen an event of this magnitude in the Caribbean before," said Mark Eakin, coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch.

Tom Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance says that compared to coral areas in the Indian and Pacific ocean, where warming waters have brought about a 90% mortality rate, the Caribbean is healthier.

The Caribbean is actually better off than areas of the Indian and Pacific ocean where mortality rates — mostly from warming waters — have been in the 90 percent range in past years, said Tom Goreau of the Global Coral Reef Alliance. Goreau called what's happening worldwide "an underwater holocaust."

"The prognosis is not good," said biochemistry professor M. James Crabbe of the University of Luton near London. "If you want to see a coral reef, go now, because they just won't survive in their current state."

Decline of Population of Arctic Krill
Because of increasing temperatures, areas of sea ice in the Antarctic Peninsula region have diminished significantly. And the algae that grows on the underside of the shrinking sea ice is therefore also diminishing. The algae is a food source of krill, which is also disappearing in antarctic waters. Scientists report a tenfold decline in krill populations during the past 10 years. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) completed a study in November 2004 saying that there has been an 80 percent decline in krill since the 1970's. [|See BAS Press Release]

Besides a decline in its foods source, part of the problem of disappearing krill is the growth in numbers of other tiny marine animals called salps. Warming antarctic waters have brought about a population explosion of the salp, a jellyfish-like creature, which feeds on another krill food-source, phytoplankton. And as krill is a food source of the Adelie penguin, the latter is also disappearing. University of Montana ecologist William Fraser has studied the Adelie penguins for 22 years and has seen their numbers drop 40%. Besides the lack of krill, Fraser believes that warmth could be causing problems for the penguin by bringing spring snowfall that buries the Adelie's eggs under snowbanks. See on this page [|Whales-Blue Whale - Antarctica under Danger to Animals]

**Caribou**
Warmer temperatures and more snow, as a result of more moisture in the atmosphere, are the reasons for the steep decline in caribou numbers in the Canadian Arctic, says Greenpeace. During the pasts 30 years, the total caribou population of Canada's western arctic islands has dropped from 24,000 to 3,000. Ann Gunn, a scientist with the Bathurst Island Research Station in Canada, says, Caribou are expending valuable energy trying to dig through deeper levels of snow to eat, and eventually run out of energy and starve to death." [|[45]]

**Moose**
Back in January, 1999, 100 Alaskan moose faced starvation because of heavy snowfall in their winter feeding area, which is known as the Portage Flats, and located near Anchorage. The threatened animals were searching for food, belly-deep in snow. The heavy snow, the same as the plight of the caribou, was the result of global warming putting more moisture into the atmosphere. The animals head for Portage Flats when snow forces them out of nearby higher valleys. At this writing we have no idea what happened to the 100 moose. [|[46]]

**Gray Wolf and Woodland Buffalo**
According to a recent World Wildlife Fund study, forest ecosystems in Canada, Alaska and northern Russia are vulnerable to global warming. The species inhabiting these regions - such as the gray wolf and woodland buffalo - may not be able to migrate fast enough to cooler climates to escape the effects of increasing temperatures. [|[48]]

**Polar Bear**
Temperatures in the Antarctic and Arctic has increased significantly to the point that sea ice has diminished in the both regions. In the Arctic this has meant a decreased habitat for the polar bear. [|[48]] The polar bear depends heavily on the capture of ringed seal, because this seal has a very heavy lipid layer. This fatty tissue is especially needed by the female, who banks on the energy stores for the winter when she gives birth to a couple of cubs. The decreasing Arctic ice will vastly diminish the chances of polar bears capturing these seals, because the bears stalks seals using the seal's breathing hole in the ice. The polar bears around Hudson Bay number about 1200. In late fall they wait for the formation of sea ice to allow them to hunt seals. Nowadays ice melts off the Hudson Bay three weeks earlier, which means that much less time to pursue and feed on seal pups. It also means they have that much less time to gorge on seals and increase their bodies' fat stores. Compared to polar bears 20 years ago, the bears around Hudson Bay are 10% thinner and have 10% fewer cubs. According to a climate model developed by Canada's equivalent of the EPA, Environment Canada, this sub-Arctic area of tundra within 30 years could become New England-like with a temperate leafy forest. No place for polar bears. [|[99]] Melting sea ice is leaving greater and greater distances for polar bears to travel in their hunts for food. In December, 2005, marine biologists from the US Minerals Management Service attending the sixteenth biennial conference on the biology of sea mammals in San Diego, California, reported that they found 4 polar bears drowned off the northern coast of Alaska last fall. They also described seeing more polar bears in the open sea, some as far as 60 miles offshore. They noted that 20% of bears seen in the area in September, 2005 were in the water, while in previous years, records show that 4% of sighted bears were swimming.

**Whales-Blue Whale - (Antarctica)**
Melting polar ice is threatening the main food source for Antarctic blue whales and could lead to their extinction, an international environmental group said Thursday. The whales feed on small sea creatures known as krill, which in turn eat microscopic marine algae. The algae live in sea ice and are released in the summer when the ice melts. The environmental group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said studies had shown that as the temperature has increased in recent decades because of climate change, sea ice had diminished rapidly and food supplies for blue whales were getting scarce. "If this decline continues, it will seriously affect the entire ecosystem of the Southern Ocean and could lead to the extinction of the Antarctic blue whale," WWF said in a statement ahead of a meeting in London next week of the International Whaling Commission. The blue whale population in the Antarctic was drastically reduced by commercial whaling from 250,000 a century ago to probably below 1,000 today, WWF said. The population has shown no signs of recovery since blue whales were protected from whaling more than 35 years ago. The blue whale, which weighs 160 tons and measures up to 30 yards long, is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. WWF said that apart from the effects of climate change, krill were also threatened by an increase in commercial fishing. WWF whale specialist Stuart Chapman said, "It would be a catastrophe for the natural world if the decline of the blue whale was accelerated by new commercial pressures. It would be the final nail in the coffin." (Thursday, July 19, 2001 By Reuters).

**Minke Whales** **(Antarctica)**
There has been an unexpected collapse of in the numbers of the world’s most hunted whale, the minke. Scientists are saying that a sharp contraction in sea ice in Antarctica is the reason. The latest findings say that fallen by nearly half in less than a decade. A count of minke whales in the Southern Ocean around the Antarctic, between 1985 and 1991, were estimated at about 760,000. The latest counts, during the 1990’s, suggest there are now only about 380,000 left. No one knows why their numbers are dropping. Global warming is the main suspect, since krill on which they feed live at the edge of the sea ice. =Global Warming Solutions= = = = = There are many ways in which you can help stop Global Warming. These are some suggestions: 1.) **Get educated.** Join organizations, to help educate yourself about the effects and causes about global warming. You have to not only know, but put it in practice, remember " I'm not everyone but I am someone, I can't do everything but I do what I can". 2.) **Conserve Energy**. How? Here's how: - Car Pooling - Turning off appliances that you aren't using. - Buying energy friendly light bulbs. - Walking places, instead off driving - Keeping filters of your air conditioner clean. These are just some of the many ways, you can conserve energy. 3.) **RECYCLE, REUSE, AND REDUCE** 4.) **Use environment friendly vehicles**.There are cars out in the market that save energy such as [|hybrids]. 5.) **Environment friendly tools**. If you can, you the power of the sun as energy. you can use: - Solar Panels - Wind or geothermal energy 6.) **Insulate Your Home**. Insulate your home to prevent a lot of use of heaters during the winters and in the summers wear light clothing so you don't have to use air conditioning as much.

=Animals=

The polar bear's home is melting because of Global Warming The Red Fox is moving Northward to a warmer climate The penguins are now swimming in polluted water and their food is very scarce

  

Aren't these polar bears cute?? Well this is their home they are standing on!! They don't have anywhere to go because everything around them melted. If we don't do anything about global warming these polar bears will die and eventually will go extinct. Instead of going to the zoo to show your kids these creature you are going to be telling them stories of how these creatures looked. Do you really want that?? 

What does this mean? This means that over time, global warming will increase about 0.74+ 0.18 degrees C ( 1.33+ 0.32 degrees F). Increase in global warming will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation.The Earth's climate has changes throughout history. From glacial periods (or "ice ages") where ice covered significant portions of the Earth to interglacial periods where ice retreated to the poles or melted entirely-the climate has continuously changed.Increase in global warming will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation.There will also be shorter, warmer winters, human health risks, the forest health, and wildlife habitats. This not only effects the Earth but also, humans and animals as well.



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