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