S/R Practice 'Impact of Climate Change'

EAP2A WW
Summary & Response
October 21, 2008
B.K

Impact of Climate Change

In Hirsch’s (2005) article, “Animals ‘hit by global warming’”, climate change affects environment negatively. Because of the change, many animals already have started to move to other places to searching for their habitat. It is a kind of a global warming. In early days, scientists noticed that point. The wide migration patterns of some animals are associated with the global warming. Although many species have been able to adapt to new changes, some animals are not. Subtle changes of temperature are affecting a wild scope. And it deprived them of food in the oceans. So, now, they feel necessity to find a solution to help animals. Animals do not have many choices anymore. In addition, they are dying because there are no places for them.

It is apparent that animals are in danger because of changes of temperature in this article. The earth is warming more because of carbon dioxide. And animals are affected by environmental change even though it is a small variation in temperature. They are able to notice a change more easily than people. Also, the rising temperature is affects the ocean, the land, and the ecosystem. Ultimately, it will affect people too. Therefore, we should know that we are also part of the environment. It will affect people soon. We should find a solution to help dying animals and to protect our life.

First, the greatest problems are a rise of the sea level because of melting of glaciers. It makes the dominoes’ effect that escalates in other areas. The glacier acts to cool the earth because it reflects sunshine. If reflection of the sunshine becomes low, the sea temperature will be high, according as the ocean absorbs the sunshine. As a result, a vicious circle is repeated that a number of glaciers thaw because of raised sea temperature again. Also, it means dramatic climate change. It even can make people who did not adapt to dramatic climate change get to die. Therefore, we should know that it is a big problem.

Next, if the water vapors of in the atmosphere rise because of global warming, the average of precipitation will rise. It is able to cause a flood, or drought. Also, it makes fatal contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and cholera easy to spread. In addition, it affects the plants. Now, many alpine plants are placed in a crisis of extinction. Because their harvests are decreasing every year due to global warming, famers have distresses every year. The impact of global warming is wide.

Finally, a big cause of global warming has carbon dioxide. The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is continued to increase with industrial development. The global warming is not natural, it results from human activity. Therefore, the people should take responsibility for making these problems. The earth is not only the monopoly of the people. If we are not concerned about these problems, we will be in danger in the near future. The people are connected with the environment and with each other.

In conclusion, in the past, the people used the fossil fuel in the industrial development and destroyed the forests in agricultural development. These caused global warming. As a result, it not only caused many disasters like the rise of the sea level, a change in the precipitation, flood, drought, and typhoons, as temperature rose, but also it increased the scale and frequency of disasters. Then, it will threaten the people. For that reason, we should care about environment. We are not able to live without helping nature. These problems are not only for experts anymore. It is not too late yet. We should find out what we can do. We are in nature too.


Reference

Hirsch T. (2005, October 5). Animals ‘hit by global warming'. BBC NEWS. Retrieved Otober 20, 2008, from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4313726.stm.