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CLIMATE CHANGE: EFFECT ON ANIMALS

NAME: OLOWOMEYE OLABODE MICHAEL

MATRIC NUMBER 1002202

DEPARTMENT ZOOLOGY

INTRODUCTION

Over the ages, the earth’s climate has continually changed and it still experiences constant change in climate to date. The major cause of the continual change in the earth’s climate is due to the constant rise and fall in its average temperature (EPA; 2010). This change in the earth’s average temperature affects other climatic factors such as ‘the amount of precipitation, relative humidity, and wind pattern therefore bringing about a global climate change.

FIGURE 1. Earth average temperature from 1850 to 2006 (Muller; 2011)

INTRODUCTION (Contd)

FIGURE 2. Temperatures from 12,000 BC to the present, estimated from Greenland ice measurements of oxygen isotopes. (Muller; 2011)

CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Natural variability

Climate change as a result of human activities