The article “How Global Warming is Changing the Wild Kingdom” talks about how changes that are occurring in the wild kingdom are showing scientists that innumerous shift and changes are happening in the world besides the global warming effects and temperature rise that has been debated a lot lately. Several changes in the wild kingdom has occurred lately as a response to global warming. Many fish species are moving to the north in order to find cooler waters. Polar bears are suffering from global warming and are thinner and less healthy than the ones of 20 years ago. Red Fox are migrating to the north as a response to warmer climates. Besides these changes in the life of several animals around the world, scientists have come up with four possible ways that species might respond to the rise of temperatures that have been occurring lately in our planet.

The first one is what they call “divide and destroy”. By that scientists mean that species will migrate to the north or to areas where elevations are higher in order to survive. They emphasize that with the presence of humans in some of these parts in the world, it makes it harder for some species to migrate. The second response is in the timing of natural events, such as migration, egg laying, and flowering. The change in temperature has a direct effect on the natural timing of these events in some species. The third response is that humans have nothing to do with the shifts we are seeing in the animal world and that these changes are likewise natural. Scientists also says that changing certain characteristics of the surface can impact more the animal life than increasing one or two degrees of temperature. The last response is that global warming will not only affect the animal world, but also our human community as well. It says that health risks will increase, and that poor countries will suffer even more from this change. Besides that, the article says how gas prices will change as well as the sales of hybrid cars. Generally speaking, global warming is an issue that will affect the entire ecosystem that we live in.

Reference: http://www.livescience.com/3864-global-warming-changing-wild-kingdom.html