How Climate Change Affect Penguins

Climate Change: How is This Effecting Life of Penguins?

What is climate change? Climate change is when the climate has a drastic difference in weather in the past. Does this mean it changes from summer to winter? No. When the weather changes from summer to winter, it is a huge difference in temperature but its considered a normal routine. It doesn’t do enough to hurt the environment. When the climate changes, this means it is changing in a way that it has never changed before. The most common type of climate change would be global warming. Global warming is when the Earths surface is warming up do to the amount of CO2 in the air. Global warming effects many animals of the polar regions including penguins, polar bears, whales and many …show more content…
Penguins have recently become a huge factor in animals getting harmed. To start, climate has influenced life of penguins for years. For a long time, climate changes helped penguins. Recently it’s been proven that the climate is no longer helping penguins but instead harming them. In recent studies done by the papers Scientific Reports, it’s been estimated that by 2060, over thirty percent of the Adélie penguins on Earth will be gone. In another study, in 2099 the population will have a decline of around 60 percent. During the cold winters of Antarctica, penguins, such as Emperor penguins (largest penguins; growing up to four feet tall), create huddles to keep each other warm. Huddles can become broken up by gusts of warm air. If global warming continues to be a problem, penguin huddles will be broken up when they feel as if it’s too warm. Antarctica is surrounded by ice bergs. An iceberg is also known as a large mass of ice that has been frozen for billions of years. They froze from the freezing cold air that surrounds that area of the world. Global warming can make these icebergs melt which means