Recently, scientists have announced the
Bramble Cay Melomys, a species of rodents that lived only in the island Bramble Cay, have become extinct. However, scientists had also found that these tiny, cute and furry rodents have gone extinct due to human induced climate change, making it the first mammal victim of a
wildly changing climate.
Climate change is one big topic that is all over the media these days, the two words that is becoming the fountain head for many debates and discussions.
So, what is this climate change? In simple terms, climate change refers to the significant, long-term changes in the global climate. It is already proven that climate change has the potential to disrupt and reshape lives. What's more, the World Health Organization expects 2,50,000 additional deaths a year between 2030and 2050 due to climate change. We are also familiar with climate activists like Greta Thunberg, Boyan Slat, Al Gore and many world leaders campaigning hard against climate change. This is all because of the hazardous impact on the environment that may be caused if this phenomenon is left unchecked.
What are these effects? Let us go through some of them :
*Increase in global temperature*, which leads to:
*Melting of Glaciers*, as a result of which there will be a :
*Rise in Sea level*,
*Increase in precipitation and Imbalance of monsoon* which can become a major cause for :
*Floods*,
*Extinction of species* (as we saw in the beginning of the article ), that may cause:
*Ecological Imbalance*,
*Ocean Acidification* and the list remains *endless*.
So climate change is a problem that shouldn't be ignored, by anyone at anytime. In fact, it has already started creating problems on our planet.
That is the reason why we decided to address one problem that we faced in our state Kerala in the recent years as a result of climate change - Floods.