• Question: how will the climet change affect our planet

    Asked by Megan and alissa to Áine, Victoria, Lydia, Eoin, Ciarán on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi Megan and Alissa,

      thats an important question to ask. It is actually really hard to predict how climate chance will affect our planet!
      We know there will be more extreme weather events, like storms, floods, very hard winters and so on. There will also be places where it will get hotter and dryer, and other places where it gets colder.
      The increasing temperatures will also cause sea ice in the Antarctica to melt – that will increase the sea water level and sea surface temperature.

      We are not sure how marine animals will react to that. Then all the Co2 will make the ocean also more acidic, which is bad for coral reefs because it dissolves their skeletons. Other animals that can swim might just go somewhere where its colder, so migrate North or South away from the warm Equator.

      This is all quite scary and a lot is changing. However, in a years time the politicians of the world are meeting to discuss how to deal with climate change and how to decrease the greenhouse gasses we pump out every day!

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