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TOPIC 'Environment' on Nov 30, 2009 (CET) The Climate is changing right infront of your nose Almost everybody who watches television or reads magazines has heard or read about the dreadful consequences that global warming will have upon mankind. The changes that seem small to begin with are all part of a chain reaction coming from the rising in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Due to that fact that many people are stating to have found a new consequence forged by global warming, we have decided to present you with the most important changes that are happing in nature due to the climate change. The most popular weather statement in connection with global warming is also the simplest. The temperature is rising averagely. In the Antarctic the temperature has risen on average by 2.5 degrees Celsius in the last 50 years. These digits might be small but they have caused Antarctica to lose seven ice shelves in the last 20 years. The temperature rise is clearly responsible for the melting of the ice which is also having another reaction on the worlds oceans. The sea levels are rising at the dramatic speed of averagely 1.8 mm each year since 1961 and have even speeded from 1991 to 3.1 mm each year. At this rate the sea levels will have risen globally between 18 and 59 centimeters by 2100 but due to the fact that the ocean sea levels are rising and accelerating the speed in which it is rising, their might even be even more ocean by 2100. The warmer temperature does not only have an effect on the oceans but also effects wildlife in a shocking way. Animals such as birds and fish are changing their habitats as an effect of temperature change all over the world. In France for example 105 bird species were reported to have moved north approximately 100 kilometers from 1989 – 2006. 21 species of fish moved further north from the North Sea to the cooler ocean areas in the North. This could mean that the ocean around Britain will be inhabited by much more exotic fish soon. The basic thing to say about global warming is that the weather as we know it will become more and more extreme. In countries where rainfall always seemed likely now rainfall has become a certainty. On the other hand countries such as those in and around Africa have become even dryer throughout the years. The temperature rise will raise the number of Atlantic hurricanes that will cross the land and those that do will most definitely be larger than those known now although scientists do argue about the fact that weather changes have something to do with the global warming. Fact is that global warming is already happening and the effects are taking place every day and eventually they will change every day life at first in small ways but perhaps in the future global warming will play a much more important role to the future of the Earth than we know it now. Jason Grace on behalf of the BascoTec Internet Limited Technologie Park 13 33100 Paderborn Germany similar articles: Environment: Painting it Green Doesn’t Make It Green Environment: China has presented its plans against climate change Environment: China´s Yangtze river is being threatened by global warming similar reports: Renewable Energy in New Zealand Renewable Energy in Australia Energy Politics

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