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Global warming and life under the water

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posted on 2018-02-21, 07:35 authored by Yixuan Chen, Mo Chen, Loredana Cirillo, Haoru Meng

With the development of society, people have already stepped into a fast-developing industrial age. The use of fossil fuels, coal and petroleum has become a main source of carbon dioxide emission, which is the key of global warming. Carbon dioxide, in recent years, is known as a greenhouse gas which has caused a rise in global temperature. There are many harmful effects global warming would bring to humans. Due to dramatic climate change, it is time to raise people’s awareness towards this ecological and social issue. The purpose of this research was to find whether global warming would have any impact on life under the water and how that can be used in future predictions. This research report looked at the water data for Ontario Lake, one of the freshwater lakes among the Great Lakes. The databases of daily water surface temperature, ice concentration, and concentration of chlorophyll absorbed in water have all proven that global warming did have great influence on lacustrine organisms. Also, according to the trend that was produced from the databases, a rough future trend was able to be produced. At the end, there are also some suggestions on what people can do to reduce environmental impact.

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