Why Are Many Animals Expected To Go Extinct Due To Global Warming?

SPECIES EXTINCTION FROM GLOBAL WARMING

Climate change is accelerating the 6th extinction

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Globe biodiversity has declined alarmingly in half a century: more than than 25,000 species, about a 3rd of those known, are in danger of disappearing. Climatic change will be responsible for 8% of these.

In the last 60 years, the population of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) has dropped by 60%.

River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) are in danger of extinction because of pollution.

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is an endangered species because it is finding it hard to survive the increasingly longer and hotter summers.

The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is an endangered species because it is finding it difficult to survive the increasingly longer and hotter summers.

IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION: FROM HUNTER TO HUNTED

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"Human activity, the consumption of fossil fuels, the acidification of the oceans, pollution, deforestation, and forced migrations threaten life forms of all kinds. It is estimated that one-third of corals, freshwater molluscs, sharks, and rays, one-4th of all mammals, one-fifth of all reptiles, and one-6th of all birds are heading towards extinction". This resounding paragraph taken from the book The Sixth Extinction (2015) by journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert is a good summary of the electric current situation of the natural biodiversity on planet Earth.

After this publication, the scientific community began to discuss and study the sixth extinction. The previous 5 extinctions had occurred over the last 450 million years, due mainly to meteorites and volcanic eruptions. The sixth extinction, even so, has to do with human being beings. A study by the University of Connecticut External link, opens in new window. (United States), published in the Science journal, indicates that climatic change is accelerating this, as climatic change by itself will cause the disappearance of about 8% of the current species.

Ample testify demonstrating the reduction in the natural biodiversity of our planet tin can be establish in the Red List of Threatened Species External link, opens in new window. from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In its 2017 edition, this listing now includes 87,967 species, of which 25,062 are in danger of extinction. In the oceans, to cite just one such example, the ascent in temperature and the acidification of water are turning coral reefs — previously lush underwater meadows full of algae, fish, molluscs, and crustaceans — into whitish deserts.

For their part, European scientists take been studying the reduction in the mass of flying insects in natural parks, and the data speaks for itself: 75% since 1990. Climate modify and pesticides appear to exist the primary causes of this pregnant decline. The reject in the number of bees is a major business concern. The Department of Agronomics in the United States has counted two.5 1000000 hives in 2015 (engagement of the terminal report) compared to over 5 million in 1998. Who will pollinate the plants that feed us? According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 100 species of crops provide 90% of humanity's food, and 71% of these are pollinated by bees.

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