Rising Sea Levels : Increased Range And Abundance Of Pest?

Rising sea level can be caused by a variety of factors and can have an effect or influence even more. Future changes in sea level may impact human populations around the world and many other aspects of life on Earth more than many initially thought. The U.S. coast of the Gulf of Mexico is on track to be one of the most impacted by further sea level rise and the outcome could be detrimental to the entire coastline.

Many communities are suffering due to coastal erosion. One example is the village of Cocodrie, LA in Terrebonne Parish. This village’s small population and its 220 residential and commercial buildings are surrounded by marshes. In Cocodrie, there is no barrier against hurricanes. Local marinas play host to recreational and commercial fishing, and The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium is located in Cocodrie. This facility of around 100,000 square ft houses laboratories, classrooms, and a research center. Infrastructure that will be affected by coastal erosion includes paved highway, dirt roads, a bridge, water supply systems, and natural gas lines. By 2050, Cocodrie will be surrounded by open water as the marshlands around the village give way to rising sea levels. Another community affected by this issue is Yscloskey, LA in St. Bernard Parish. The most important part of the economy here is fishing, and highways link the parish to New Orleans fishing communities. The Yscloskey area lies outside of the protective levees and is quite vulnerable to storms. Though losses in Yscloskey are not predicted to be as great as those in Cocodrie, a 16 percent loss by 2050 leaves the infrastructure of Yscloskey even more vulnerable (Coast 2050, 1998, p. 64-66). Local residents in these areas are watching the land disappear along with the beachfronts and Cyprus swamps that were on that land (Marshall, 2014).

Over the past few years, the population of the seabirds along the coast of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest has dramatically decreased. They have been reported seen dead along pubic beaches, struggling for air. These birds have lived in a mild climate, mostly cool and rocky beaches. The food source is mostly krill, plankton, and zooplankton.

Decades of research suggest that sea-levels are rising, and will continue to rise as a result of climate change. This rise will have the most immediate and significant impact on

Despite the increased population in Japan, the continental Asian population continues to decline. There are various causes leading to the decline of their populations. The major threat is the loss and degradation of wetlands in its breeding and wintering grounds. These areas are used for conversion to agriculture, aquaculture, and industrial development. Due to habitat loss, the winter range in China is now only 8% of what it was in the 1980s. This decline of habitat also is leading to the over-concentration of cranes at a few sites. In China, wetlands are becoming drier as a result of surrounding development. In Russia and China, spring fires destroy suitable nesting grounds, allowing predators access to nests and destroying breeding

Leading scientists advise climate change will cause increases to the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Rising sea levels pose a significant risk to coastal communities, while the world’s oceans could become too acidic to support coral reefs and other calcifying marine organisms.

Due rise in temperatures, icebergs and ice crust will melt, what by the way will force sea-level rise and flood islands and continents. If Earth’s oceans water levels will continue to rise, it may also influence on the amount of fallouts, which may destroy living environment and habitat of different species.

The rising sea levels are associated with almost every region of the U.S., besides those on tectonic plates or landlocked regions. According to the report, most regions have a large majority of their gross domestic product, GDP, and population living in costal counties. This is a problem for areas like the South East which has thirty six percent of it’s inhabitants living on the coast and thirty three percent of its GDP coming from its coasts. “In Florida, because of the porous limestone on which the major southern cities are built, even modest sea level rise comes at a significant economic cost.”1 Within the next half a century it reasonable to assume, based on the evidence from the report, that between fifteen and twenty three billion dollars of existing property in the South East will be submerged by the rising sea levels. Furthermore, there is a “1-in-100 chance that more than $682 billion in property will

Approximately one-third of the world's population lives within 100 miles (160 kilometers) of the coast. Therefore, if for instance, the global sea levels will rise by just 0.6 meters within the next century, the cost to human society will be enormous. Bangladesh, a country that is nearly at sea level, would lose millions of acres to flooding. If for example, sea levels will rise by 2 meters, approximately 28 percent of the whole country will be flooded and 27 percent of the population will be displaced. Without seawalls, many of Indonesia's seaside rice paddies would be destroyed by salt water, and groundwater reserves for many coastal cities around the world would become contaminated with salt, rendering the water undrinkable. In the

We can expect a rise in sea levels worldwide due to the two massive ice sheets melting in Antarctica and greenland. We can expect an increase in the number of natural disasters. " And even if they become less frequent globally, hurricanes specifically could still become more frequent in some particular areas," said atmospheric scientist Adam Sobe (HarperWave, 2014). "Additionally, scientists are confident that hurricanes will become more intense due to climate change."

Many places near the coast of North America, has been exposed to the effects of the rise in the sea level. According to the article entitled “Climate Change Impacts in North America”, “A recent study by researchers at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, published in Nature Geoscience, used forecast models to predict that weaker ocean currents in the Atlantic resulting from global warming could pose a special danger to cities on the U.S. eastern coastline. In addition to rising global sea levels, North America may face additional hazards” (Lee). If these sea levels continue to rise, cities along the coasts will soon be underwater, forcing many companies to go out of business and many residents to move away. Also, all the specie’s habitats near the coast will be demolished. Furthermore, the beach, a place where the bright sun shines on the glimmering sands with turtles and crabs crawling all around, will now become a sorrowful place where there is only water splashing into the land, getting ready to rise

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is a government driven agency that is directing one of its aims to decrease global warming, to the extent where the sea level rises pose no threat to human or marine life. This authority has been significantly effective in respect to the Queensland Framework article, in its designed strategies to tackle global warming by pointedly implementing hybrid powered cars to facilitate the ice cap melting dilemma. Additionally, in relation to both articles there is a major Federal reform being imposed, which gyrates entirely around the notion of more sustainable practices that will support the coast life. This notable Federal response is an extreme asset to coastal management, as it plans to assign funding to calm the effects of global warming; and essentially overcome coastal issues. Both of these Government scaled responses are appreciably effective in the subject of coastal management, and as stated by a federal party, ‘through constant funding and government aid, the issue with the Coast, will hopefully be

Due to the rise in temperature, most Australian animals will be required to migrate to locations with climate conditions which are suitable for them for breeding, nesting, growing or feeding (The Problems That Climate Change Causes for Wildlife, 2013). A great example would be the whale. Whales require vast amount of krill for its diet. However, with the increase in temperature of the ocean, krill population will decrease as they only live within a small range of

Last but not least, global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt. The melting of the polar ice caps will cause the sea levels to rise all over the world. If the sea levels rise just a metre

Birds are a group of animal which consist of many species, all of which play various roles in several ecological niches. Birds are considered ‘biologically successful’ due in fact to the number of species present. Currently, there are approximately 10,000 species of birds, which is almost double the amount of species of mammals or amphibians. The differences which separate birds from mammals and make them more successful are the presence of large yolked eggs, which support the offspring until birth, and the absence of lactation which allows for greater energy usage and efficiency. Birds have developed these adaptations over the course of thousands of years. Additionally, birds are considered ‘biologically successful’ due to the fact that they are found on almost every continent on Earth. Examples include several species of birds in the forests of North and South America and Asia, several species of birds in the cities of Europe, and the flocks of the presence of ostriches and various other birds in the planes of Africa and Australia, and very notably, the existence of penguins in