Climate Change and Flora

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Introduction

Climate changes are seriously affecting flora worldwide due to global warming that has been greatly assisted by human environmental abuses since the Industrial Revolution.

This is having dramatic affects on the flora and plant life on the planet, and will continue to worsen rapidly over the next century, threatening the existence of plant life on the planet and spell a potential extinction of not only plants, but animals and human beings worldwide.

What is global warming and climate change?

Global warming is now a mainly human fuelled environmental cycle whereby toxins are being released into the atmosphere through pollution, creating greenhouse gases that are breaking down the ozone layer that protects all life on the planet from the sun's harmful infra-red radiation.

These gases are forming a smog above the planet, trapping the radiation inside and increasing temperatures, very similar to a greenhouse that is used to grow plants. However, the affects of this greenhouse affect is upsetting the very balance of life on the planet because the smog is acting like thickening glass window panes, concentrating the gases, the radiation and the heat, allowing for no escape. CO2 has risen 30% since the Industrial Revolution alone.

What affect is this having on flora worldwide?

With the world temperature having risen 0.5°C over the past 100 years, the affect on flora and plant life on the planet has been dramatic.

They include:

Crop failure - lack of water
Climatic changes in local areas affecting survival of local plants
Plants are migrating through spores and seeds, carried to regions that they are not native to
Dramatic weather systems are washing away and killing flora and trees, stopping the vital CO2 and oxygen exchange needed for life on the planet
Dramatic weather and temperature changes are killing of some plants and the bees that pollinate them
Polluted soils are starving vital flora and plants of nutrients, while encouraging the growth of weeds

Other effects include:

Increasing PH levels in soil, creating an imbalance between plant species
Thinning soil layers are more susceptible to erosion and increased acidity - plants with deeper root systems can no longer survive and smaller systems are being blown away
Increasing conifer plantations are helping to absorb pollution, but allowing more acid rain to reach the soil so that more toxins are entering the water table - local plants requiring less toxic soil are dying
Increasing rainfall resulting in increased soil erosion and toxicity - some plants are being washed away in floods and landslides
Higher altitude plants are being suffocated both by soil toxins and an overabundance of greenhouse gases and are unable to cope with processing these toxins and releasing needed oxygen back into the atmosphere

What examples of these affects have been found recently?

Some recent affects on world flora recently, include:

decreased lichen - alpine regions
vineyards - southwestern England
growing bananas - Cornwall, England
death of 3000+ trees - Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada

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