Global Warming And Its Effect On The Global Environment

Kelp forests are seen as the ultimate ecological engineer in coastal areas. They exist in marine environments spanning in southern California, Aleutian Islands, and the western north Atlantic. Light, latitude, and water temperature and nutrients all play a role in facilitating the growth of kelp forests all around the world, (Bolton). Kelp specifically dominates the shallow rocky coasts of the world‘s cold water marine habitats. Although they look as a free-growing plant, they are in fact primarily of brown algae. These structures provide food and shelter to a huge mix of biota, including crabs, sea urchins, mollusks, and other marine organisms (Steneck). The fronds, or large leaves of the kelp are the distinctive feature that can represent where a specific kelp may be found. The sizes of these organisms can range from the smallest found near California and Alaska at 5m to giant kelp up to 45m in length found on the west coasts of North and South America (Hamilton).

When trees are burned, CO2 is relinquished. The burning of astronomically immense areas of trees is known as deforestation. Human activities integrate more CO2 into the atmosphere through activities like the burning of fossil fuels. The guiding question of this investigation is, “Which carbon cycle process affects atmospheric carbon the most?” The researchers initially wanted to learn 2 things. First, the researchers wanted to learn how much carbon engenderment there would be if they incremented the amount of fossil fuels burnt by a certain amount. The researchers also wanted to learn how much carbon engenderment there would be if they incremented the amount of deforestation.

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.

Kelp forests are “a source of food and habitat for dozens of other coastal species” (qtd. in Soulé et al 1240). Therefore, to maintain the diversity and richness of the coastal marine ecology, kelp forests should be preserved.

Deforestation is another known contributor to global climate change. This is by contributing to global warming. According to Nanda (2011), trees are the main absorber of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Therefore, deforestation contributes global warming because less carbon dioxide was absorbed. Furthermore, decaying of these trees produces carbon dioxide. Therefore, governments should make legislation aimed at conserving and rehabilitating destroyed forests (Solomon et al., 2011).

Forests control the amounts of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere therefore contributing to global warming. However we as a planet have a problem… deforestation.

Forests play a critical role in mitigating climate change because they act as a carbon sink soaking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise be free in the atmosphere and contribute to ongoing changes in climate patterns. Deforestation undermines this important carbon sink function. It is estimated that 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions are the

The marine biome is tremendously impacted by the effects of climate change. The sea levels have been rising, the water temperature has been rising, organism’s habitats have been destroyed, the tides are coming in stronger, the ocean is acidifying and many more things that will end up impacting all of us and the rest of the world in a very big way. Climate change is real and the proof is right in front of us. Flooding in major cities, el nino, more frequent natural disasters, wildfires, heat waves, and so much more. The facts are right there, we have just been too blind, too egotistical, to imperfect, to realize that we have changed the world. We did not mean to but we did so we need to fix what we caused.

The main factors in this climate change are observed to be the increase in temperatures and the resulting acidification of the oceans. The previously mentioned changes and others in the report are readily observable, such as the uptake of anthropogenic carbon since 1750 that has led to the ocean becoming more acidic, with an average decrease in pH of 0.1 units and in some instances blatantly obvious, even to the average layperson. It is difficult to conclude what the rate of change in the future will be and the effects of observed ocean acidification on the marine biosphere.

Among the seaweed diversity, Gracillaria and Sargassum wightii are most dominant species all through the years. The overall percentage of seaweed was more in 2012-13 (8%) and minimum during 2009-10

Coral reefs have been a phenomenon for many years, often puzzling marine biologists between random acts of coral bleaching or the death of a coral reef in its entirety. Global warming and rising sea temperatures has had a major effect on coral communities, often causing mass coral bleaching events that wipe out coral communities. The migration of invasive algae, Symbiodinium, has allowed for the protection of coral reefs against rising sea temperatures. Although protecting the coral reefs from bleaching events, the presence of Symbiodinium trenchii causes a decreased rate of calcification, the process by which new coral reefs are built. A study conducted in the Persian/Arabian Gulf sampled coral located in the hottest sea locations. These samples underwent genetic testing and Hume et al. (2015) concluded that a new species of Symbiodinium was present in the gulf. Another study performed by Keshavmurthy et al. (2014) in Taiwan took samples from eight water regions. The samples underwent Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, along with other genetic tests. It was determined that thermally tolerant clade C was present in the tested water regions. Much of the abnormal existence of Symbiodinium among various coral reefs demonstrates the impact of invasive species among ecological environments. The impact of the algae on the environment has both helped and hindered coral communities. As

Climate change has many long lasting effects on the diversity and distribution of species. In time, evolution will be a major part in helping us understand how climate change has had a major effect on all species and all levels of biodiversity. The most significant change in climate is global warming, which causes a vast temperature increase around the world. Lately researchers have noticed a change within species due to climate change, and are predicting future struggles and risks amongst them (Ross, 2009). Global warming has a large effect on all ecosystems but most attention has been given towards the ocean and arctic as they are the most sensitive and easily affected by global warming. This paper will discuss how global warming declines

Deforestation is a process of cutting down too many trees and it largely affects the climate. The Amazon rain forest is a perfect example of this. In the past 40 years a full 20% has been removed from that single rainforest alone.When cutting down trees the process of photosynthesis can not take place. Therefore large amounts of carbon dioxide are left in the air, and there is less oxygen. These C02 bonds interfere with the C03 in the ozone. Global warming is greatly affected by deforestation due to the increase in greenhouse gases it causes. Tens of Millions of acres are being cut down each week. These acres are as large as Italy. When these trees have been burned carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere. Trees are 50% carbon dioxide, so when deforestation takes place lots of carbon dioxide is released. It accounts for 25% of carbon dioxide emissions.

Global warming is a major problem when providing a suitable habitat and lifestyle for ample marine life. With sea levels rising there are consequences to plant life in coastal wetlands that can not handle the amount of water being provided. The wetlands are important in their job to protect the species they contain and for stabilizing coastlines. Storms are increasing in magnitude and severity, causing the transport of nutrients to marine life to be disturbed. As shores move further inland animals will have to move and adapt, history has shown how this can decrease populations. In the future both rare and abundant species could become locally extinct, with rare species on the verge of becoming totally extinct.

Previously, efforts have been made into taking measures into preventing climate degradation caused by deforestation. REDD was suggested as climate change mitigation