Question

Climate change is impacting biological systems. Give 3 examples and explain how they are related to increases in temperature, CO2 or both.

Answer 1

Climate change is impacting biological systems. Give 3 examples and explain how they are related to increases in temperature, CO2 or both.

Climate change is resulting in changes in the biological systems. The three examples that show how climate change impacts change in temperature or co2 or both are:

• Range shifts: as a result of increase in temperature, there has been an increase in temperature. As a result, there have been an overall increase in the temperatures leading to melting of glaciers and warmers rovers as well as streams.
• Due to of a burning of fossil fuels, there is a release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As a result of this , there is an increase in the solar radiation that is coming in, leading to thermal imbalances. This results in warming of the climate systems.
• Changes in the land cover such as deforestation along with urbanisation. With the increase in cutting of plants, there is a shift in vegetation, altering the routes of rainfall resulting in. Changes in the natural cycle of water. This results in increased heat production and increase in temperatures.
• There also has been a substantial decrease of carbon dioxide in ocean sinks. The ocean used to serve as a large reservoir of carbon absorption, which have also reduced due to increased dumping of oil in the wared bodies causing a decrease in the absorption of ocean and thus increasing availability in the atmosphere.