effects of Climate Change: antarctica

The most known effect of Climate Change is the gradient of temperature and the fact that the ice of the poles melts but what are sideeffects of this gradient? 

The rising of temperature effects the activities of animals, their obsolescence and their reproduction. Their ability of rivalry and their  trophicrelation. Furthermore animals will leave their old habitat and search for a new one because they aren’t adapted to their old one and an adaption is needed to survive.

Of course, the ice will melt too and their habitat gets smaller and smaller wich is also a cause to leave it. Besides the number of rainfall will change and the sea level will rise. And the absence of ice will lead to erosion of the coasts. 

But what will happen to the animals? Let’s have a closer look at an example. 

This is krill, the most important organism in the polare seas. It’s nutriment to most nearly every creature in the antarctica, dircetly or indirectly. 

Krill eats phytoplankton which lives under massive ice. If the ice melts there will be a a big leck in the offer of nutriment for the krill wich will lead to a high number of deaths of the krill. Furthermore the rising absorption of carbon dioxide will make the oceans acid. The shell of krill is made of calcium wich is the reason why the acid sea can destroy the shells easier and baby krill die more often because their shells can’t be build. 

The missing of krill has an huge effect of every creature on the antarctica. Orcas eat seals. Seals eats cods. Cods eat herrings. Herrings eat krill. And there isn’t enough krill out there. So ther won’t be enough herrings. Consequently there won’t be enough cods. Consequently there won’t be enough seals. Consequently there won’t be enough Orcas. Huge networks of nutriment will collapse and the ecosystem will be destroyed. 

Climate Change has an huge impact of the life of millions out there. It isn’t just bad for humans but it will be the decline of millions of millions of organism.

What should humans do?

• make laws about fishing in polare seas
• use environmentally friendly methodes of fishing which don’t destroy the habitats
• don’t use routes which lead through habitats directly 
• avoid harvaries (yes, nobody does it intentional) 
• avoid tourism in arctic zones because people will detroy habitats, disturb animals, destroy organism and bring in different creatures to the habitats wich will have an negative impacts on it
• create ‘nationalpark’ zones to protect the nature
• stop Climate change

What shoul you do?

• eat less fish (which was caught near the antarctica)
• reduce the waste of plastics
• try different methodes to stop Climate Change like saving energy or stop pollution
• spreadthe message by sharing this post, telling your friends or posting about the climate crisis too

Ecosystems around the globe need us to save them because we are the ones who will kill them slowly.