Global Warming (Practice Summary/Response)

In Bhattacharya's (2004) article entitled " Global warming threatens millions of species", she tried to explain that global warming will have a bad effect on millions of species. In fact, climate change means that one in four land animals and plants are on the way to extinction by 2050, predicts a major new study. She took her information from two news scientists who were very alarmed about this future extinctions of species, if nothing is done.

First, Chris Thomas explained that if these species move to a new area, where the climate and the temperature didn't really change because of car and factory pollution. This change of area could decrease the extinction by ten per cent, meaning that one million in ten million species can disappear. Thomas and colleagues tried to model the different possible scenarios with the minimun loss of species, but with all this supposition a question always comes back: " where are these same conditions going to be found? ", which means where can we find a new area with the same conditions of life before the global warming.

Next, Stuart Pimm said that these species moved, but the climate also affected their habitation, which means that biodiversity is endangered like species. Then all these species can't change their aera; they don't have this possibility, they are not able to migrate, and if all the species go to a new area, this one can be smaller for all them and can it support fewer species?

Finally, both of these two scientists suggest doing everything possible, to reduce this global warming, and both of them encourage all of the different governments to do something. And they gave some examples like cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, employing new energy efficient technologies and using strategies to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That is possible if everybody does something, and we can do it. The world and its environment are in game

Reference

Bhattacharya, S. (2004, January 07). Global warming threatens millions of species
New Scientist. Retrieved October 16, 2007
from http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4545&print=true