{"id":527,"date":"2025-10-06T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=527"},"modified":"2025-10-06T13:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:32:29","slug":"global-climate-change-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/global-climate-change-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Global climate change and evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every now and then, a new story is made by the media about Climate\nChange. The idea that humans evolved over the time from other species is the \u201cTheory\nof Evolution\u201d, and is the subject of controversy. Another controversial science\ntopic often talked about by the news media is, global warming or global climate\nchange. The average temperature of the Earth is increasing every year. So how\ndoes one affect the other? The majority of scientists believe both global\nclimate, and evolution change to be true.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global climate change<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before connecting the two controversial scientific subjects, it is\nfirst important to understand what they are? Every year the average temperature\nof all places on Earth increases. This increase in temperature seems to be\ncausing many potential environmental issues like larger areas are becoming\naffected by droughts, melting of the polar ice caps<\/strong> more extreme natural\ndisasters<\/strong> like tornadoes and hurricanes<\/strong>. To keep some heat\ntrapped in our atmosphere Greenhouse gases<\/strong>, like carbon dioxide, are\nnecessary. Specialists have linked the jump in temperature to an overall\nincrease in the number of greenhouse gases in the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controversy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The average global<\/strong> temperature of Earth is increasing and\nIt would be really hard to dispute that. Some scientists are suggesting it is\nstill a controversial subject because many people do not believe that humans\nare causing global climate <\/strong>change to speed up. Earth cyclically becomes\nhotter and colder over long periods of time, which is true and many opponents\nof the idea claim that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, current human lifestyles do add greenhouse\ngases into the air at a very high rate. Some greenhouse gases are expelled from\nfactories into the atmosphere. Many types of greenhouse gases are released by\nModern automobiles including carbon dioxide, and that’s when it gets trapped\ninto the atmosphere. Humans are cutting Forest down to create more living and\nagriculture space and that is how forests are disappearing these days. It is\nquite an easy thing to understand that more we cut down the trees more the\nforest will disappear, If the mature trees are less will have less Oxygen\nbecause of the process of photosynthesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effect on evolution<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As we all know, Evolution is simply defined as the change in\nspecies over the years, how does global warming change<\/strong> a species?  Charles Darwin has driven through the process\nof natural selection. In other words, within a population, the individuals that\nhave traits that are better suited to whatever their immediate environment is\nwill live long enough to reproduce and pass down those favorable traits and\nadaptations to their offspring. if the individuals who have less favorable\ntraits for the environment will either have to move to a more suitable\nenvironment, or they will disappear and those traits will never be available in\nthe gene pool for new generations of offspring. This would create the strongest\nspecies to live long lives in any environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polar bears and other endangered species<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Due to global climate change<\/strong>, polar bears<\/strong> are currently on the endangered species list. Northern polar regions<\/strong> of Earth areas where there is very thick ice are where the polar bears<\/strong> live. They hold very dense coats of fur and layers upon layers of fat to remain warm. The Polar bear<\/strong> has grown skilled ice fishermen in order to survive they rely on fish that live under the ice as a primary food source. Unfortunately, because of the melting polar ice caps<\/strong>, the polar bears<\/strong> are finding their once favorable adaptations to be obsolete and they are not adapting quickly enough. The temperatures are increasing in those areas which makes the extra fur and fat on the polar bears<\/strong> more of a problem than a favorable adaptation. The thick ice that was once there to walk on is now too thin to hold the weight of the polar bears<\/strong> nowadays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There will be no more polar bears<\/strong> If the current increase\nin temperature keeps up or accelerates. Those polar bears<\/strong> who have the\ngenes to be a great swimmer will live a bit longer than those who do not have\nthe genes. But, eventually, all will most likely disappear since evolution\ntakes many generations and there just is not much time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many more other species all over the Earth that are in\nthe same sort of predicaments as polar bears<\/strong>. Other animals need to\nadjust with the changing temperatures, and still, others have to deal with\ntheir changing due to human interference and habitats disappearing or there is\nno doubt that change in global climate is causing problems and increasing the\nneed for a quicker pace of evolution in order to avoid mass extinctions all\nover the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every now and then, a new story is made by the media about Climate Change. The idea that humans evolved over the time from other species is the \u201cTheory of Evolution\u201d, and is the subject of controversy. Another controversial science topic often talked about by the news media is, global warming or global climate change. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}