The Effects of Climate Change. Birds are laying eggs earlier in the year

The Effects of Climate Change

Birds are laying eggs earlier in the year.

Plants are blooming earlier in the year.

Mammals are coming out of hibernation. . . earlier in the year.

Rising sea temperatures are destroying coral reefs.

Species are. . .

turning on their own kind.

Islands are disappearing.

The largest animals on the planet. . . are becoming vulnerable.

In the tundra. . .

shrubs and trees are going to take root.

Shrinkage of natural habitats. . .

force animals and humans together.

Grasslands will likely become forests.

Mothers are abandoning their babies. . . to travel north.

Ice is melting. . . worldwide!

Life sustaining trees are dying.

Extreme weather is increasing.

March of the penguins. . .is becoming a march of death.

As trees move north. . .

New England’s fiery fall foliage will disappear.

16,928 of 44,838 species. . .

are threatened with extinction.

99% of these threats are caused by man.

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

Resources

• http://www.climateandweather.net/global_warming/effects_on_animals.htm

• http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/tropics-oceans.html

• http://www.global-warming-awareness2007.org/

• http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/09/climate_100.html