What is the relationship between global warming and endangered species?

Question

Please elaborate.

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Answer 1

Al Gore claims that warming is causing some animals to go extict, like polar bears. Studies show, however, that this is completely bogus, and eleven of the thirteen "families" of polar bears are thriving where Arctic temperatures are warming. It was also said that 200,000 species will die out between now and 2050, but if you think about it, that's 4000 species a year. Seems a bit overdoing it, huh? Basically, Al wants global warming to be the cause of everything, so that it can't be disproven.

Answer 2

Basically, hand-in-hand.

All species have adapted to particular niches, where variables like available food, space, temperature, etc.  are all within an acceptable range for that species.

Like with any change to the environment, warming will favor some species at the expense of others.  Killer bees, for example, may have reached the northern limit of their range in the southern US, based on which temperatures they will live in.  Once warming worsens, their range will expand with the expanding warm zone.  This could displace bees native to the regions they are moving into.

I think you know what view of warming a polar bear would take.  Every weed, bug, and spore is going to feel the stress.  Some species just will not be able to adapt quickly enough to warming, and will all die.

This doesn't mean that warming is okay because everything evens out - it means that the new extinctions are tied directly to our own negligence of the other forms of life we share the planet with.

Answer 3

of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years. each years, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.

a lot of human activity is speeding that up since we tend to overpower all the other species in one way or another.

some reasons why animals are being wiped out ,in the forrests are:

the hunting of exotic species for the consumer market

only about 10% of the animals caught survive

the hunting of animals for food by settlers

forrest fires ,that have started because of slash and burning of forrest ,to clear the land for farming, had gotten out of control

the loss of Habitat because the conditions have changed ,e.g less humidity because of surrounding farmlands ,or overpumping of rivers for human use(farming and utility)

because of contamination of the waters ,

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's

clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

In Mexico is a famous jungle that the Media has been trying to save for years

the Naturists ,and the government ,keep watch .laws are made for protection the wild and to forbid logging.

TV put out a series of documentaries

there are campaigns in the News papers

and all of this has not made the slightest difference

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day

more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees

it is an impossible situation

as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

and the Animals will continue to be trapped ,as long as people keep buying the exotic animals

CLIMATE CHANGE

And now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature ,

vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain

90% of the feral (wild) bee population in the United States has died out.

Recent studies in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have shown that bee diversity is down 80 percent in the sites researched, and that "bee species are declining or have become extinct in Britain." The studies also revealed that the numbers of wildflowers that depend on pollination have dropped by 70 percent.

If bees continue to die off so would the crops they support and with that would ensue major economic disruption and possibly famine.

Bees are not the only polinators but if these things are happening to bees we can bet on it that other insects are also in trouble ,on top of this many people are spraying for mosquitos ,with drastic effects .

so much follows the insects in the food chains ,that we can expect a lot of very bad changes in the environment .

only time will tell what is in store for us ,and that time is running now .

everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor events any more

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