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8. How will climate change affect humans and other species in the future?
In the future, if the goal of the Paris Agreement is not reached, to limit the increase in global temperature to 2 °C or less from its pre-industrial level, this would have serious consequences for humans and the other species that inhabit the Earth.
The climate is changing at a speed that is unprecedented. Not all living beings have the ability to adapt to these changes. Some say that if climate change does not stop, about a quarter or more of the planet’s species could become extinct.
Global warming affects everyone, but especially the fauna that inhabit the cold seas and the polar regions. Because of this, some species are in greater danger than others. The best-known example is that of polar bears, which, seeing their habitats reduced by the thawing of ice, find it difficult to obtain their nutrients with fatal consequences in many cases. There are other factors, other than climate change, that also affect the species, in some cases until their extinction. Among them we can consider the displacement of their habitats due to the human expansion on the planet. For example, due to the deforestation of the forests, the orangutan of Borneo, one of the most common and emblematic species of the island, is on the verge of extinction. To this we can add environmental pollution. Finally, mention should be made of the lack of capacity to adapt to climate change of many species, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
Other FAQs about Climate Change
1. What is climate change and what is its origin?
2. What are the causes of global warming?
3. What are the consequences of climate change?
4. Are there examples of recent climate changes on Earth?
5. Why and how much will sea level rise in the future?
6. What are glaciers, icefield and Arctic ice and why are they related to climate change?
7. Is permafrost a climatic weather bomb due to global warming?
8. How will climate change affect humans and other species in the future?
9. What is the role of mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change?
10. How can we lose the fight against climate change?
11. What would happen if climate change could not be stopped?
12. Why the Amazon rainforest is the lung of the world?
13. Is the Amazon forest in danger of disappearing?
14. Have we reached the Anthropocene?
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Pioneers of Climate Change
At all times and in all sciences, there have always been visionaries, those people who anticipate situations long before other persons can glimpse them. This is the case of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician and physicist, who in 1824 calculated that an object the size of the Earth and with a similar distance from the sun, it should be much colder to what our planet is really like. He affirmed that it was maintained with a temperate climate because the atmosphere retains the heat as if it were under glass. Thus, Fourier has the honor of being the first to use the greenhouse analogy…
Climate change, what is it and what are its causes?
Anthropogenic climate change is the variation of climate status attributed to human activity that alters the composition of the atmosphere and has consequences on the entire planet. The main cause of climate change is global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), of anthropogenic origin, among which CO2 is the most frequent. The sources responsible for these emissions are the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas, used mainly in industry and transport.
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