Global Warming Causing Extinction!

Global warming is seen by some as a lie or spruced up fable being used as a platform to boost the Democratic party into the White House. Next Friday we will see the true effects of global warming as a panel will reveal the effects it is having on ceratin species and whether or not these animals will later become extinct as a result of the "fabled" global warming.

"Changes in climate are now affecting physical and biological systems on every continent," says a draft obtained by The Associated Press of a report on warming's impacts, to be issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the authoritative U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and more than 100 governments.

With the panel declaring in February that nearly all of the effects of global warming are being caused by manmade resources, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a now overwhelming problem. Animal and plant life alike are feeling the effects of global warming and sea levels are rising at a rate never before recorded.

"Hundreds of species have already changed their ranges, and ecosystems are being disrupted," said University of Michigan ecologist Rosina Bierbaum, former head of the U.S. IPCC delegation. "It is clear that a number of species are going to be lost."

The effects of global warming are already being seen elsewhere on animal life. In San Juan Puerto Rico, the nocturnal calls of indigenous frogs have fallen silent. It is believed the climate warming on a little bit has left the frogs susceptible to a fungus that maims and later kills them. The true root of the problem is in the effect of global warming on the frog's habitat. The climate temperature rise from 1970-2000 was 2 degrees and this small climb has resulted in perfect conditions harboring the cold-blooded amphibian's lifestyle.

Also being affected by the warmer climate is the Great Barrier Reef off the shores of Sydney, Australia. The temperature rises projected over the next 50 years may not only have an effect on the coral itself by stripping away most of its color but on the $4 billion in tourism revenue produced by the reef each year. People are not going to want to come see the rainbow-like coral reef if it no longer resembles a rainbow.

Global warming is a real effect our lives have on the environment. Changing out emissions and lifestyles is the only way to stop these effects.

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