Third of Plants and Animals could Disappear due to Global Warming
28 December 2009 | Green News | No Comments
Global warming is a phenomenon that can affect us, humans, but at the same time also can affect many plants and animals. Things that are happening currently on the planet are not simple at all. Researchers have realized about the seriousness of things and announced that a large number of animals and plants should migrate to North to prevent global warming effects. Unfortunately third of these animals and plants, can not migrate at high altitudes and this is a serious problem.
Considering these issues, researchers calculated the average movement speed of flora and fauna on earth surface (0.42 kilometers per year). Scott Loarie and David Ackerly from Stanford and Barkely Universities, have calculated the movement speed using the A12B scenario (This scenario belongs to GIEC). Experts have also calculated that in mountains, tropical and subtropical areas transition speeds will be only 0.08 kilometers per year for coniferous forests (1.26 kilometers/year in flooded prairies, mangroves and desert regions).
So, thinking about what will happen, we hope that animals and plants will be able to adapt to these new climate conditions. In addition, it is our duty to help them move to higher altitudes. How we do this thing? It’s simple! We need to strive as much as we can to maintain constant or even to reduce CO2 emissions.
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