Sea Animals

Sea turtles have inhabited the world's oceans since the age of the dinosaurs, but are now on the brink of extinction. The so-called leatherback's female population has plummeted from 90,000 to 2,000 in the past two decades, and the survival of threatened turtle eggs is more critical than ever.

Global warming has been another detrimental factor, as turtle nests are vulnerable to minute changes in temperature. Since the gender of the animal is determined by the amount of heat in incubation, small rises in beach temperatures can result in all-female populations, obviously a setback to species survival.

The turtles are a sad story. The conservationists are blaming fisherman for poorly laid nets, but fisherman deny the charges saying they rarely catch sea turtles. The evidence is that the sea turtles have bulging eyes and neck, which indicates that they have died due to lack of oxygen. It is my own theory that this is true. However, global warming may be the cause of these deaths, due to high pH levels in the water creating dead zones in the oceans which are bodies of water without oxygen.

The Blue Jellyfish in Australia are another example of how warming waters are reaking havoc on the marine life. More than 30,000 people were stung by the blue jellyfish in 2006, which is twice as many than in 2005. Scientists are blaming this on warming ocean temperatures which cause the jellyfish grow in numbers. This phenomenon is consistant across the world with all varieties of jellyfish growing in numbers.

We need to help out.

Animals are being affected drastically in a way process which is slowly going to affect humans, animals are soon going to have no habitats; animals in ice areas and oceans too. The water levels are going to rise up, leaving many animals without places where to give birth or just basically live. Turtles are a perfect example, when water levels rise up, their eggs are going to drown because they will never find them. Seals are another example because they need ice to live and because of global warming this is going to create a total chaos.

There's got to be emergency acts been done as a whole country so this problem doesn't continue to grow. We've got to help animals, we need to stop pollution, help with saving water and so on.

Among the things I learned today,,

Let me tell you, today my brain was like whoaa, I learned many things :D

Global warming is projected to commit over one-third of the Earth’s animal and plant species to extinction by 2050 if current greenhouse gas emissions trajectories continue — a catastrophic loss that would irreversibly reduce biodiversity and alter both ecosystems and human societies across the globe. In fact, more than a million species may be at risk of future extinction due to global warming, and we’re already seeing the first extinctions.

In my opinion, we all need to take action, and do something about our enourmous problem that we are facing right now, which is Global Warming. These trends of changes between animal change of habitat and so on should be a little red light warning us and telling us to take extreme action in this situation.

Global Warming: Effects on Animals

Global Warming 101

What I learned today, 3/09/10

Today I learned a lot of things! Starting with how to manage a website and edit our website for our project. And then I researched about what my role is about in my project and was pretty much surprised. Global Warming effects on animals is just more than just warmer climates, It creates wide changes among food, habitats, and migration among all animals on earth.

Habitat loss is one of the most obvious effects of global warming in animals; Species that rely on ice for habitat survival have had to migrate because of habitat loss when ice melts with extreme hotter climates. On rainforest for example, trees are no longer growing, because of the climates, they are more exposed to diseases, and animals that rely on these trees for shelter and food suffer when this isn't available anymore. Desserts are expanding world wide because of the warmer climates, causing a handful of big changes like, animals having to move from areas and now 'fighting' in their new environment with other animals settled there already, and alter greatly the animal population, which will eventually alter the food-web by there not being enough food for these animals.

FOOD, is greatly being affected by Global Warming. Animal populations suffering from global warming are dying or are being greatly affected causing a gap in the food web, and greatly affecting other animals that depend on them for food, and so on and so on. Also, trees and other plants are being also affected causing a late time to give out fruit or food, and many animals relying on trees for food can starve to death.

Migration among animals is very common, and lately the climate change as greatly affected these migration routes. Because of the extreme climate changes, animals like birds are changing their routes and often dying because of the harsh conditions they're not used to, and many times migrating to higher and cooler elevation where already established animals are there. Other example are seals, they need ice bergs to live on and when these melt they go in search of new habitats, and unfortunately drowning on their expedition.

All of this information is what i learned today, I am just so surpriced on how global warming is really affecting the world; Animals are being really threatened by this situation, and eventually we will.

Global Warming effects on animals

The ice is melting down from the north and south pole, which means that the water level at some point is going to rise. Causing seals to stay without habitats. Also, turtles will no longer have place to leave their nest. I also learned that bird species are changing their migration patterns, Global Warming is really affecting animals all over the world.