Arctic animals grow tired of swimming with the amount of ice left
In past years many animals and people have been displaced by Global Warming, which until pretty recently most people failed to acknowledge. Penguins especially feel the effects, with other animals such as sea lions and polar bears know all too well. Many animals see first hand what human pollution is doing to our precious world.
Starting in 1975, global warming became a harsh reality for our watery friend the penguins when large sheets of ice began to melt, and break of into the water. Even the iconic iceberg that sunk the Titanic melted under the intense rays of sun that stream through the newly torn holes in our ozone. The broken sheets of ice now float in the ocean and melt even faster.
Our animal friends use ice sheets that are attached to one another as there homes. Imagine waking up one day and and stepping outside to be surrounded by open water, not land, or a source of food in sight. Adult animals and penguins can withstand the means to get back to land, but many must leave their newly borns behind, or watch them suffer and die in the water. This is mainly because of the animal cycle to have babies in the spring, which is when the ice melts very fast. While a seal lion can enjoy a free meal, the polar bear pup's mother, does not end up happy.
Ex Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee once said "The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it." This quote is incredibly true, and it is about time we think of affective ways to stop global warming.
First of all, Global warming is caused by The green house affect, which is the warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. Certain gases in the atmosphere block heat from escaping. This affect created tears in the O-zone which is the protective outer layer of Earth's atmosphere. These tears are created by the out put of fossil fuels, and the chemicals chlorine and bromine. According to National Geographic "Such deterioration (of the holes) allows large amounts of ultraviolet B rays to reach Earth, which can cause skin cancer and cataracts in humans and harm animals as well." And Earth needs both of those. (Arguably.)
Ways to help put an end to Global warming are as simple are having your kids carpool, turning off your computer when you leave your house, and even turning off a light. These are all extremely simple things to do to not only stop global arming from increasing, but to also help your wallet out with the electricity bill. With solutions as simple as these, it would seem to be really easy to stop the continuation of destroying of animals homes, and even causing huge floods and changes in the water currents. That affects thing in the same species of us.
As time goes on it is our job as parents and as brothers and sisters to make sure that the future is always better, but maybe not in this case brighter. Turn off your lights and enjoy the outside a little more. The arctic animals thank you.
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