Climate change is now something that we cannot close your eyes to, and governments all over the world have finally realized that they have to sit up and take notice. These are some of the things that many scientists predict will happen it we carry on polluting the atmosphere with CO2 emissions.
Short term: by the year 2050
- More than a third of the world's plant and animal species will have become extinct.
- The ice in the Arctic Sea will melt every summer, causing the extinction of polar bears, and many glaciers, for example on Mount Kilimanjaro, will have melted completely.
- 50% of the worlds ski resorts will have closed down due to lack of snow.
