Are We Destroying Wildlife by Causing Climate Change?

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Climate change has been in the news recently for a variety of reasons, so I wanted to explore the effect this is having on wildlife but also dive into what climate change actually means, what’s causing it and, ultimately, the extent to which we are to blame.

00:00 Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Animals
02:27 What is Climate Change & Global Warming?
03:12 What Causes Climate Change?
07:03 Are We Responsible for Climate Change?
08:10 Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Animals
09:48 Effects of Climate Change on Land Animals
13:10 What is Being Done to Combat Climate Change?

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Creative Commons Attribution
Climate change is no hoax – Mark Dixon / Flickr CC BY 2.0
I don´t believe in global warming – Matt Brown / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Ice Age Fauna – Mauricio Antón Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5
The world is dying sign – Ivan Radic / Flickr CC BY 2.0
The signing of the Paris Agreement x 2 – Gobierno de Chile / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
COP 21 Display – Guilhem Vellut Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
COP 21 Columns – Presidencia de la República Mexicana / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0
Paris Protest (Black & White) – kellybdc / Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.0

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Additional Attribution
Wind Farm – Al3xanderD / Pixabay
Clouds – Marc Wieland / Unsplash
Earth – Daniel Olah / Unsplash
Scientists launching an ozonesonde balloon – NOAA / Unsplash
1.5% – Mika Baumeister / Unsplash
Homeless man – KasunChamara / Pixabay
Surgery – sasint / Pixabay

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Unless stated above, all still images are used under license from Shutterstock.com. Thank you to everyone who makes their work available for use. Covering all of the wonderful species in these videos would not be possible without your incredible work.

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Sources & Further Reading
Listed below are the sources used to create the video.

→ Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Animals
WWF
https://www.wwf.org.uk/where-we-work/arctic
About the Arctic
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/arctic
Arctic species affected by climate change
https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/11-arctic-species-affected-climate-change
Animal Diversity
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Ursus_maritimus/

→ What is Climate Change
United Nations
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/what-is-climate-change
Al Jazeera English – What is Climate Change? | Start Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcBXmj1nMTQ
BBC Earth – When The World Gets 1℃ Hotter | Climate Change: The Facts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsjcG7hTmo

→ What Causes Climate Change?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle
When did the last ice age end?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-thawed-the-last-ice-age/#
Greenhouse effect
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/greenhouse-effect
Fluctuations in earth’s temperature
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been
Main sources of anthropogenic greenhouse gasses
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-geology/climate-change/how-does-the-greenhouse-effect-work/
Causes of Climate Change | Met Office
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/climate-change/causes-of-climate-change
The scientific consensus on human-caused climate change
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/10/more-999-studies-agree-humans-caused-climate-change
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966
Naturally occurring CO2 Levels

Full Source List (there were too many for the character limit so I’ve included a link to a Google Doc with the full source list for this video)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MMqKYuqqXrW7EF_i5_1ScRyS6Ex5lYAAYCEA75ioO7g/edit?usp=sharing

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