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National Geographic's Six Degrees Can Change The World

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Six Degrees Can Change The World The Earth is currently 1.5 degrees fahrenheit warmer than it should be. The effects of the slow warming, called global warming, are illustrated in The National Geographic’s “Six Degrees Can Change the World.” In the video, the changes which would occur in the world as the average temperature is increasing degree by degree include habitats dying and a different world from the one people currently inhabit. There are many effects of global warming, and, fortunately, some ways humans can prevent the world from heating up past its current temperature. Global warming is the gradual increase in the overall temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is caused by the emission of Co2, mostly through fossil fuels (coal, oil, and gas). Small marine animals in the ocean use the Co2 in water to build new shells or skeletons; however, too much Co2 in the oceans turns the water very acidic, which can dissolve the animals shells and prevent them from absorbing it. Losing these animals also results in losing coral reefs, which, if lost, ends the lives of over fifty thousand species of marine animals. The loss of these animals would disrupt the food chain, the water cycle, and it could have drastic effects. …show more content…

This has already caused many changes, from droughts to overheating summers to glacier melting. To put it into perspective, if the world warms another degree, the arctic will be without ice for half a year, and flooding, droughts, and hurricanes will occur. If the globe continues warming at this rate, within decades glaciers could disappear altogether. The disappearing of glaciers would result in arctic animals’ homes and lives becoming destroyed, as well as flooding to coastal cities and much more. All in all, the effect of one raised degree of warmth is extremely

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