Climate Change At Places Near The Poles

Mountain people living at glaciers near the poles are the first places on earth that noticed something odd about honeybee behavior. Later this led to the baffling disappearance of whole hives of honeybees, which is now known as colony collapse disorder in North America.

Climate Change Affects Creatures And Human

Climatic change is a critical factor in the evolution of social behavior of these creatures. Among them are honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, ants, termites, many wasps as well as certain kinds of shrimp and the naked mole rat.

Not only is climate change affecting the creatures, there is also increases in rates of skin cancers among mountain people world wide. A record of melting traces the beginnings of increased melting to about 1750 when the first industrial coal-driven applications were being devised half a globe away. It was not, however, until the industrial revolution that the pace of melting began to increase.

Human Error Worsen Climate Change Effect

A poor plan can easily be seen in South-eastern Alaska’s once mighty Sitka Spruce populations that formed a temperate rain forest. Forest ownership laws allowed people from out-of-state to own land in Alaska. Due to climate change, the Spruce Bark Beetle was able to spread unchecked through this natural near-monoculture of a mature forest.

The absentee owners allowed the pest to escape their site. It could have been, at least temporarily, contained by cutting away the host trees for a distance around the observed infestation. It was not and has since spread to nearly the entire state, leaving a scarred ghost forest in its wake.

Part of any plan to manage the massive resource of several different forest types must be a procedure for mitigating the effects of climate change. Plans for dealing with the aftermath of such a disaster, regular monitoring and protective measures are all part of a sustainable forest management plan.