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WY-HI By Gabriella Giammalva
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PUBLISHING From the Roosevelt High School Yearbook Staff

Global Warming and Climate and Africa. After/ Reality

CBhy GaanbrgieellaoGniamEmaarlvtah ?Global climate change has
already had observable effects
The changing weather and effects it has on the earth is starting to make a real on the environment. Glaciers
difference. The actual term for this condition is Global Warming. It causes some have shrunk, ice on rivers and
seasons to become shorter and others longer and have drastic changes in lakes is breaking up earlier,
weather very frequently. plant and animal ranges have
shifted and trees are flowering
sooner,?NASA?s article, The
Effects of Climate Change, said.

"Both marine and terrestrial fauna have been affected by warming, but an Scientists believe that global
explicit comparison of physiological sensitivity between the marine and temperatures will continue to
terrestrial realms has been lacking,?Malin L. Pinsky said in her article, Greater rise in the following decades,
vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms. largely due to greenhouse gases
and human activities.
Climate Change is the burning of fossil fuels, which add heat-trapping gases According to NASA?s climate change article, The Intergovernmental Panel on
into the earth?s atmosphere. According to NASA?s article about climate change, Climate Change (IPCC), forecasts a temperature rise of 2.5 to 10 degrees
the atmospheric carbon dioxide level is the highest it has ever been with a level of Fahrenheit over the next century.
400. For the past 400,000 years the carbon dioxide level has never been higher
than 300. The level passed the bar in 1950 and has only been going up since then. ?According to the IPCC, the extent of climate change effects on individual regions
will vary over time and with the ability of different societal and environmental
?The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 systems to mitigate or adapt to change,?NASA?s article, The Effects of Climate
years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt Change, said.
end of the last ice age about 7,000 years ago marking the beginning of the modern
climate era ? and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are Global warming is and will continue to change the earth, atmosphere, and in the
attributed to very small variations in Earth?s orbit that change the amount of solar long run, the people of our society. Temperatures will continue to rise,
energy our planet receives,?NASA?s article, Climate Change: How Do We Know? precipitation patterns will continue to change, more droughts and heat waves will
said. continue to occur, hurricanes will become stronger and more intense, the sea level
will continue rise, and the Arctic is most likely to become ice free.
The average surface temperature of the planet has risen 1.62 degrees fahrenheit
since the late 1900?s. The five warmest years on record have taken place since ?Taken as a whole, the range of published evidence indicates that the net damage
2010, 2016 being the hottest year on record. The oceans have absorbed most of costs of climate change are likely to be significant and to increase over time,?the
the heat and have warmed as well. IPCC states in NASA?s article, The Effects of Climate Change, said.

Before/ Expectation ?The current warming trend is of Even though global warming and climate change has affected the whole earth, it
particular significance because affects each part in a different way. The western part of the United States
most of it is extremely likely (greater experiences more drastic temperature fluctuation and extreme weather
than 95 percent probability) to be conditions. The east experiences more wildlife and agricultural losses. Erosion
the result of human activity since and increasing ocean acidity also pose as big threats for the east. Latin America
has had many species extinctions in tropical areas and will continue to have more
the mid-20th century and due to changes in water, agricultural, and energy generation. Europe is at an
proceeding at a rate that is increased risk of flash flooding, erosion from storms, rising sea level, and the
unprecedented over decades to reduction of crop productivity in southern Europe. By 2020, Africa will have 50%of
millennia,?NASA?s article, Climate their agricultural production severely compromised. Freshwater will decrease in
Change: How Do We Know?said. Asia by 2050 and the death rate from disease associated with floods and droughts
are expected to rise in this area.
According to NASA?s article about
"The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human
climate change,ice sheets in activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society," the American
Association for the Advancement of Science said.
Greenland and Antarctica have

decreased in mass dramatically.

Greenland has lost an average of

286 billion tons of ice per year since 1993 and Antarctica has

1 lost 127 billion tons of ice. Glaciers have retreated in many 2
places including the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska

Tipsfor Taking Picsin Nature
By Gabriella Giammalva

Make the most of your Capture different
Natural surrounding Seasons

- Take photos of the dewy - Falling snow on trees or
morning grass in your a bird sitting on a tree
backyard branch covered in snow
during the Winter
- Find flowers in your
yard or around your - Unique creatures in the
neighborhood Summer

Get up close Shoot in the best light

- Crouch down close to - Take pictures in the
your object morning at sunrise or in
the evening during the
- Get close enough to see sunset ("golden hour")
the texture on the object
- Shaded areas and out of
- Adjust your focus and direct sunlight
depth of field

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Nature & You 6

By Gabriella Giammalva

Nature, like most things, is all around us. It helps us breathe, function, gives us
something to look at, provides animals and us food, and makes up the main part of
our earth. So why aren't we doing more to help our earth?

"I just think that there are so many people out there who don?t think this is a big
problem. I think it definitely is. When Notre Dame caught on fire, so people were
there to give billions and billions of dollars. I?ve read that all that money that went
towards that could have gone to save the great barrier reef, like why wouldn?t we
want to try and save that?If all these animals are going to extinction and all these
plants are going to extinction, they help us, they help the world function, so I really
think we need to get on that before it?s too late for us to do anything," 11th grade
high school student Anna Wagner said.

Everyone can do their part and help the earth. They don't have to be extravagant
acts, just ones that make a difference and impact our earth in a good way.

"Little things like using metal straws, not throwing your trash on the street,
cleaning up your stuff when you go to the beach, carpooling or if you have an
electric car, just recycling. There are a bunch of little things you can do [to help the
earth]. I think I have done good things and bad things, I'm definitely not doing a lot
to change my bad ways to make them good. I try to recycle and car pooling. I
would like to use a metal straw. I try not to litter. I try to do good things but I know I
do bad things to the earth too," Wagner said.

The biggest contributers of our earth's depletion take place everywhere in the
world, everyday.

"Human ignorance is the earth?s leading cause of depletion because people who
actually have the ability to do something about it don?t care and aren?t listening to
the people who know what they are talking about, which is embarrassing as a
whole. It?s really just embarrassing. It?s really the only word I can think of to
describe this climate change," 10th grade high school student Stella Moline said.

Trees and plants aren't the only things humans are harming by their everyday
activities, animals are in great danger as well. Plastic and trash is put into our
oceans everyday and it kills many of our earth's species.

"It?s so heartbreaking, honestly so heartbreaking because these animals help us
survive and they help us get rid of bad things. It?s so easy to fix the problem if you
just clean up after yourself. There are trash cans at the beach, just put it in the trash
can. It?s so easy to fix," Wagner said.

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