Climate Change Information Report

This is an information report about Climate Change.

Climate Change
Climate Change has a big effect on our environment. It changes it, making animals migrate from their homes. And we need to do something about it.

How Climate Change is made
What our problems are made of is the overload of greenhouse gasses.
Greenhouse gasses are gasses, like Carbon Dioxide, or CO2, that trap heat in the atmosphere and radiate some out. It’s what keeps us warm! But since we keep using fossil fuels such as coal and oil, we get more Greenhouse gasses. If we cut down trees, we get more Greenhouse gasses, because trees take in CO2 and “Breathe” out Oxygen.
So what is wrong with Greenhouse Gasses? You ask. Well, if there are too many gasses in the atmosphere then it gets too hot. This causes the north and south poles and glaciers to melt, and this causes seas to rise. Earth warming up makes more storms and forest fires.
Another way for our planet to warm up is that carbon dioxide burns holes in the Ozone layer, which is what protects us from the Sun’s UV radiation. If there is no Ozone, then more of the sun's rays will get to the greenhouse gasses. We will also get more sunburnt, which is actually mild radiation poisoning.
Did you know?
Fake Christmas trees emit more CO2 than if you cut down a real tree!

What Climate Change does
Imagine Earth during global warming as a giant stove. Imagine putting an ice cube on that stove. That ice cube is the north and south poles. What will happen when you put the ice on it?
The ice will melt. The same thing is happening every day; and when ice does that, it makes water. More water means seas will rise, and rising seas means more tsunamis and floods.
The heating up of the atmosphere leads to more forest fires, and animals will have to leave their habitats.
It also makes more storms, and lightning can make more forest fires!

What effect it has on animals and their habitats
Food webs are an important part of an ecosystem. If one animal dies out or moves habitats, then the whole web shakes. Like when you touch a spider web, the entire thing wobbles.
This is the food web of some of the animals of the savanna.

Say we remove all the plants. With nothing to eat, animals like mice, insects, giraffes, and rhinos die off. When they’re gone, the other animals that eat them can’t eat anything. Then they die, and it goes on and on until there’s nothing left.
So, how do the trees disappear? Well, just light an entire forest on fire and the web will be gone.
Frequent lightning storms and forest fires made because of Climate Change can do this. And it’s not just fire. The habitats can flood too, and the trees can also go then.


Conclusion
People are always saying that climate change is coming in the near future. Climate change isn’t coming. It’s here, and we need to do something about it.