Climate Change - The flora and Fauna

 

It's getting too hot to handle, year by year. Earth's climate is warming up, reaching the

extreme edges of heat and humidity. Consequently affecting the human health and 

the dear nature he lives in. 

 Evidence came to light for rapid climatic changes, compelling everyone. 

The cause of excessive heat is rising the global temperature beyond the records within a 

short span. It's Warming up the Oceans, Shrinking Ice sheets, Glacial Retreat, Decreasing 

Snow Cover, Rise in Sea Level, Declining Arctic Sea Ice, Extreme events resulting in

several rainfalls intense rainfall, and Ocean Acidification.

We human beings need plants for survival.

Everything we eat consists of plants or animals that depend on plants 

somewhere along the food chain. 

Plants also form the backbone of natural ecosystems, and they absorb 

about 30 percent of all the carbon dioxide emitted by humans each year. 

But as the impacts of imbalanced climatic changes, 

raised the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, and 

excess heat is affecting the green world.

Plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, 

and water for photosynthesis to produce 

oxygen and carbohydrates that plants use for energy and growth.

Elevated levels of CO2 from climate change may enable plants 

to benefit from the carbon fertilization 

effect and use less water to grow, but it’s not all favorable for plants. 

It makes the plant health the 

more complicated, because imbalanced climatic changes impact plants’ growth, such as nutrients, 

temperature, and water. Rising temperatures stood as the main cause of growing seasons becoming 

longer and warmer. 

Because plants will take a longer period to grow, 

they will actually use more water, offsetting 

the benefits of partially closing their stomata. 

Contrary to what scientists believed in the past, the result 

will be drier soils and less flowing current that is needed for streams and rivers. 

This could also lead to more local warming since evapotranspiration—

when plants release moisture into the air—keeps the air 

cooler. In addition, when soils are dry, 

plants become stressed and do not absorb as much CO2, which 

could limit photosynthesis. It is a known fact that even if plants absorbed excess carbon for 

photosynthesis during a wet year, the amount could not compensate for the reduced amount of CO2 

absorbed during the previous dry year. This might badly affect the plant health and reduces  

its productivity.

Warmer winters and a longer growing season also help the pests, 

pathogens, and invasive species that 

harm vegetation. During longer growing seasons, more generations of pests can reproduce in warmer 

temperatures speed up insect life cycles, 

and more pests and pathogens survive over warm winters. 

Rising temperatures are also driving some insects 

to invade new territories, sometimes with devastating 

effects on the local plants.

 Higher temperatures and an increase in moisture also make crops more vulnerable. 

Weeds, many of which thrive in heat and elevated CO2, 

already cause about 34 percent of crop losses; insects cause 18 

percent of losses, and disease 16 percent. Climate change will likely magnify these losses.

Climate change will bring more frequent and severe extreme weather events, 

including extreme precipitation, wind disturbance, heat waves, and drought. 

Extreme precipitation events can disturb plant growth, 

particularly in recently burned forests, 

and make plants more vulnerable to flooding and soils erosion. 

most frequent high winds can stress tree stands.

Many of the studies in response to the

plant life states that more plants will get stressed and 

become less productive in the future due these

unhealthy climatic changes.

The devastating human behavior against the ecosystem 

has brought the wildlife into trouble and shelter-less.

Destruction of nature led to unfavorable 

climatic changes that endangered the wildlife. We are

at the lonely each and collectively responsible for this

dramatic climate changes. We need to act in little steps each

to balance our ecosystem by planting greens and protecting our 

fossil fuels. And reduce the use of harmful gases that 

pollutes the atmosphere we live in.