How Does Alaska Live As A Result Of Climate Change

Climate change has affected us in many ways, but it was even more influential on organisms and their community. The Earth is gradually heating and we are left to deal with the consequences. Homes are being destroyed, organisms are dying, and resources are running low. Since 1880, Our Earth’s temperature had increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius. Climate change is affecting the Earth and scientists say that one more degree will greatly affect people from all over the world. There are many consequences of climate change and each one has a great impact on all of us, but organisms’ homes are being destroyed and thousands of species are dying out. These organisms are imperative to our world and how it functions.

In Henry Fountain’s “Alaska’s Permafrost is Thawing”, Fountain discusses how Alaska’s permafrost is slowly thawing away. Alaska is known for its vast, snowy landscape, but that soon could be all gone. This article is directed towards people who are interested in the warming of Alaska. As the Arctic is warming at an alarming rate, wildlife is slowing disappearing and sea levels are rising.

"Climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system that persists for several decades or longer" (Montgomery, 2015). Climate change (or global warming) can be caused by a natural progress such as sun 's radiations and volcanoes, or it can be caused by human 's actions such as land use, deforestation, and pollution. (Hardy, 2003).This phenomenon not only affects the environment, but it also affects human lives. Alaska is the largest state in the United States. It includes lands on both sides of the Arctic Circle. Sixteen national wildlife refuges are home to a great variety of flora and fauna. In the past 60 years. The Alaska 's environment changed drastically; the climate is warming up as twice as much in comparison to all the other states. This essay will discuss firstly the climate change in the Alaskan environment. Then it will highlight the changes in the ocean and costs, the effects that global warming is having on Alaska 's natives and the melting permafrost. It will then finally address who is responsible for this effects and some measures that can be taken.

Climate change has recently become a very large issue and at the forefront of it all are the Artic Polar Bears. These Artic Polar Bears have been labeled as vulnerable by National Geographic. This vulnerable label comes from a multitude of issues with the most significant being climate change. Artic Polar Bears are dying rapidly because these large carnivores are victims of the climate change, oil exploration, toxic pollution, and overhunting, all these and many more reasons are leading them to extinction and something needs to be done about it.

Using the film and their theories, Bears shows the possible outcomes of Climate Change in Alaska and on the bears, and how they affect the other. Michael Carey emphasizes the idea that people once thought of Alaska as an “unchanging, eternal face,” but now consider it the “center of national and international climate change discussion.” Monika P. Calef treated Alaska’s Climate Change and what Bears portrays from a vegetation perspective, claiming that with the decrease of tundra areas due to Climate Change, forested areas were growing due to Alaska’s warmer temperatures, as well as causing other habitats to change and give other resources. Lowell H. Suring with his ideas of human impact related that other environmental factors influenced the “availability of important foods” for bears. Each of these articles relates to how Bears change what Alaska means to us as an unchangeable wilderness to a wilderness that is changing due to Climate Change. In addition, Bears means to us that Climate Change will not only change the life of the Alaskan bears, but it will change the lives of those who are also in our environment and any others in the future that come after

Global warming has caused ice to melt and this is bad for the the polar bears. Polar bears have to swim more to get to another ice. Polar bears have to swim farther to get to another ice gap to get food. These animals are getting extinct because all the ice is melting so they have nowhere to lay down and when they swim to go to another ice gap the ice gaps are too far so they getting exhausted and then they end up drowning.

Bears and the relationship that it shows between Sky and her cubs leaves us with asking, what it means for us to pass on climate change to our prosperity. What we are passing on is the ways of adaptation and how our idealized image of Alaska’s changing environment has became problematic and forced us to reconsider what Alaska originally meant to us. In the end how we think becomes problematic in that climate change has changed the nature of Alaska despite the fact that our definition of Alaska has become subject to change. However the way that Alaska means to us, our idealized images and ways of adaptation might be better understood by future generations, who may find the answers, to fixing the issues mentioned by the discussed scientific studies and underlying examples portrayed in the film.

How Does Climate Change Impact the Lives of Arctic Animals? Growing up, I had always heard people talk about global warming and climate change. I never really understood what that meant, and I felt like it didn’t concern me. Over the summer I visited the San Diego zoo and I was very fascinated by the polar bears. I vas also intrigued by the the zoo’s habitats for the animals that were used to living in a colder climate. The zoo had managed to make those animals feel comfortable even in sunny San Diego. I was recently asked to do a research project of my choice. I wanted to do something that interested me, but I just couldn’t think of anything. Then, I thought back to my trip last summer and remembered how interested I was in the polar bears. This led me to the question, “How does climate change impact the lives of Arctic animals?”

A primary response to change is the ability of individuals to modify their behavior patterns relation to spatial distribution and phenological shifts. However, for species living in environmental extremes, they have little opportunity to regulate the climate-warming changes to their physical environment and must display plasticity in their key behaviors to cope with the changes. Polar bears face the dilemma of remaining with ice that has retreated past biologically-productive shallow waters or to move away from the retreating sea ice to the shore which can lead to inadequate resources and exposure to risk factors. There was an investigation on polar bears from Alaska’s southern Beaufort Sea (SB) subpopulation to see if the rapid environmental

As the global temperature around the world increases, winter becomes short-lived, making it harder for polar bears, who depends on the ice sheet, to scavenge for seals. Once their habitat changes, the polar bears start to act strangely by eating food they rarely eat such as dolphins and humans’ leftovers. Even if they could find some food, it is not sustainable enough to feed the entire population, leading them into extinction. There are hundreds of climate-related articles relaying the effects of climate change happening upon, not just on animals, but also humans. As an effect of the abnormal changes in the climate, people experience negative changes in their natural environment, either through the weather or the atmosphere. As a result, people

If there is no effort done to help stop global warming, more than half of the Earth’s species will go extinct. Climate change poses a threat to to Earth’s essential species, because an increase in temperature will not be suitable for arctic animals

The animals in Alaska can be as scary as watching the scariest movie ever.The animals include bears,moose,and elk.It can be hard to explore because of this I know this because I saw it in the video.It can be especially dangerous in spring because there are babies and the mother of the animals can be very scary.I know what animals are there because it showed them in the national geographic video.Though the animals look nice they can be mean.They

Polar bears are the most known animals for the impacts of climate change on species. Global warming has been most prominent in the Arctic, and this trend is expected to continue. Their dependence on sea ice makes them highly vulnerable to a changing climate. Polar bears greatly rely on the sea ice environment for traveling, hunting, mating, resting, and in some areas, maternal dens (WWF). Specifically, they depend heavily on sea ice-dependent prey such as seals. Additionally, their long generation time and low reproductive rate may limit their ability to adapt to changes in the environment. Every time people breathe or burn something, oxygen in the air is converted to carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide is used by plants to breathe and is converted back to oxygen, creating a cycle. If there is an increase in oxygen burning, for example, burning a lot of coal or oil to generate electricity or run cars, and cut down trees, the amount of carbon dioxide in the air is increased. This makes the air thicker and warms up the earth. The amount of warming is only a few degrees but it is enough to disturb the fragile balance of nature, which in turn will melt the polar ice, raise sea levels, cause violent hurricanes and endanger species such as polar bears. The polar bears are just one example of endangered animals because of the high demand of human need for energy which is acquired by burning fossil fuels.

Did you know that Climate change is affecting people all around the world? Climate change is a very bad thing that has been going on for hundreds of years. So many things are being affected by climate change. Things that are being affected are trees, plants, animals, and even people. One reason that climate change is happening is that the earth is always in orbit so the climate is always changing. Climate change isn’t only nature, climate change is caused from humans, the sun, and animals. We are causing climate change by burning things. Scientists predicted this and they’re using models to predict climate change. Snow leopards in the Himalayas are dieing off. Asian Rhinos depend on floodplain grasslands and climate change changes the seasonal patterns the Rhinos go off of. Orang-utans are also one of the species at risk from deforestation. The ice that the Polar Bears use for homes are slowly starting to melt which means they are becoming more and more crowded.

The danger of climate change is the decline in access for food because they use ice platforms to hunt and the drifting ice caps are allowing the polar bears to spend for time on land and rely