Effects of Global Warming

Effects of Global Warming Video:
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Overall Effects of Global Warming:

One big effect of global warming, will be a raise in ocean levels. By the ocean levels raising, most of the earth's coastlines will be flooded. Species will lose their homes an be forced to move some where else, especially humans.

 The Arctic melting is another huge effect due to global warming. With a warmer Arctic, all the ice will melt. This leaves species like polar bears and penguins without a home. Without a cold home like the Arctic, polar bears and penguins could go extinct.

Global warming will also cause extreme drought. With droughts in effect all over the planet, the people of earth and every other species on it, could go extinct. The hot weather will cause living conditions nearly unbearable for some species, killing off plants which could be their source of food. For people, a drought means no crops and no crops means a shortage of food.






Arctic Effects of Global Warming:

Global warming will melt the ice. If the ice melts, there will be more water. Less ice and more water will make life hard for a lot of species in the Arctic.
For species like the polar bear who need lots of ice to live on and water to hunt in, global warming could be the end for them.

 

Polar Bears and other species will be without a home, or have a much smaller one. For families especially, this will not be good. If species like the polar bear don't have ice to sleep on at night, or live most of their day on, they could end up drowning.

Global Warming could also cause thin ice. If the ice is thinner, it will be more difficult for species to walk on and the possibility of falling through. If an animal broke through the ice, they might get stuck under the ice and not be able to get back through. This could mean more animals die from drowning.







 

Animals from the Arctic may have to move south if they can no longer live there. Arctic animals need the cold weather up north, they have a very small chance of surviving in the southern areas they may be forced into by global warming.










Tropical Rainforest Effects of Global Warming:

Flooding in the tropical rainforests will be a big effect of global warming. If the rivers in the tropics flood, then species that live on the shoreline will have to move. Depending on how much flooding and where it is, it could destroy parts of the tropical rainforests.

Global warming could cause droughts in the tropical rainforests. They're not called "rainforests" for nothing, so an effect like this could be devastating. Not only will droughts make the tropics dry, but once they get dry enough wild fires can break out and spread. Wild fires could do severe damage by destroying homes and killing animals.