Global Warming

Nathaniel Saldana

Unv Success

9/25/2016

Jesse Simon

Global Warming

Global Warming is the increase in the earth’s average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate(Dictionary.com, 2016). Global Warming is a fight that should bring the entire world together to resolve. In today’s society we are overwhelmed by different problems everyday but one serious issue that affects everyone in the world is global warming, because it is harmful to our future generations, dangerous to the animal kingdom and detrimental to the planet we live on.

        Global Warming is a current issue that is harmful to us right now but our future generations lives is what we should be worried about most. As temperatures keeps rising the risk of diseases does also. From 2001 to 2010, a total of about 28,000 heat-related hospitalizations were recorded across 20 states. (EPA, 2016). According to the Environmental Protection Agency the elderly is the several times more vulnerable to the heat. About 100,000 cases of hospitalization are due to heat stress. Also, because the temperature is rising colder areas ticks are able to survive in areas that they were previously not able to. Due to that, the spread of Lime disease has double since 1991(EPA, 2016).

        The animal kingdom is also at risk. Polar Bears are losing their homes and will become extinct if the ice caps continue melting at the rate they are. In the western U.S, forests are dying due to the heat making them vulnerable to insect infestation. Dying trees means loss of forests, loss of forests means that different types of birds, mammals, reptiles and insects lose their homes. Scientists believe that corals reefs are also endanger due to the heat. Many marine animals rely on the corals reefs to survive. As sea levels rise coast habitats are destroyed and birds, fish and other coast wildlife lose their homes. Since the temperature is rising many species are forces to leave their homes and invade other environments that causes the native species to fight for survive and sometimes the natives don’t prevail. (Staudte, Inkley, and Ricker, 2013).

        The heat is melting our ice caps, and there is nothing good about it. Scientist Bill Fraser has followed the movement of the Adélie penguins on Antarctica, and he discovered that their population has fallen from thirty-two thousand breeding pairs to eleven thousand in past thirty years (IPCC, 2016). To the contrary, the devastating Spruce Bark Beetle’s population has grown due to the warmer summers and because of the high population, the insects have chewed up to four million acres of spruce trees. The sea level could rise from seven to twenty-three inches in the next one hundred years and continued melting at the poles could add between four and eight inches. (IPCC, 2016). Ecosystems could change causing some species to move farther north or become more successful. The ones that can’t move will become extinct.