It's your boy!
Nevermind, I can't steal Swiz the Wiz's thunder. Anyway, this is my fifth post. Guess what that means? If you guessed I was done this project, you are completely and utterly wrong. Because guess what? I'm only half done! Or half started I guess, depending on your outlook on life. You know what I'm talking about right? Is the glass half full, or is it half empty?
Anyway, today's post is one that has been talked about for weeks now. One that the readers of this blog have been anxiously awaiting (maybe, I know I have so I'm just guessing). Todays post will be completely about a certain animal, or fish to be exact, and how exactly is global warming affecting this fish. You may be asking '' What animal could this be? What animal could possibly take up an entire post?'' And to this my friends, I would reply with, a shark. A shark could indeed take up an entire post.
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Not only do sharks have Shark Week, but they also wear hats!
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| PS: this is totally not photoshopped |
Anyway, as much as I would love to continue talking about sharks (I totally should've made sharks my subject for this blog) I should probably start relating this to global warming since that's my actual subject. So, without stalling any longer, let us begin.
Believe it or not, but sharks are usually pretty peaceful animals and don't tend to attack humans very much. However, because of global warming, the oceans are heating up and so the sharks move to different waters.. This means that sometimes they come in contact with people, and that doesn't always end well.
Also, sharks have to eat (that should be pretty obvious). And because of the rising temperatures, their food sources are either moving or dying. If they move then the sharks must follow them, which as I said before, can put them in the path of humans. And if their food source is dying, then the sharks must travel to find another sourve of food, which can also put them in contact with us.
Sharks are important, and now, I'm not saying we should fix global warming just to please the sharks (we should try and fix it, but there are a lot of other reasons too) but I think we should create mesures to help these magnificient creatures. Because of us, almost all sharks are already on the endangered list, and if we continue making it harder for them to live, they'll become extinct.
Also there's more reasons why sharks are being affected than just being put into contact with humans. Because of all the greenhouse gases, there is a lot more carbon in our atmosphere. Over a quarter of tha carbon is absorbed by the oceans. This makes the water in the oceans much more acidic.
In 2014, a study tested how newborn sharks were affected by these acid waters. So, scientists had put sharks in water with a similar PH level to what the oceans will be in 10 to 20 years. For the first month everything was normal. But after 30 days, their health started severly declining. They stopped moviing as much, they wouldn't eat and they got sick easily.
Thankfully, the scientists put them back in waters with a normal PH level, and after a while, the sharks returned to normal. But if they had been left there, you can only imagine how terrible it would've been for them. And if that is how the entire oceans are going to be, sharks are in serious trouble.
Sharks are too cool to be forced to suffer this. We should try and help sharks because they are so crucial to our lives. I mean seriously, Katy Perry's Super Bowl halftime show would've totally sucked without that Left Shark.
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| Perfect dance moves |
I also found another game that everyone should remember from their childhood. Here's the link:
Anyway, that's all for today.
Till next time,
Matt
Bibliography:
http://www.sharks-world.com/sharks_and_global_warming/
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-sharks-19221
https://www.google.ca/search?q=sharks!&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN5pGQgbXLAhWFyIMKHf1RBDcQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=643#imgrc=x09_QGD3EJDJaM%3A
