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increase even more, and by the end of this century the ratio is expected to climb yet again and
become 50:1.
Caption: Damage caused by hurricane Sandy to Mantoloking, New Jersey.
And the extreme heat will also make way for more extreme weather and natural disasters, such as with the extreme heat, there will be a lack of rain as the atmosphere will store more moisture, so more droughts will occur, and as this happens it will heat up even more, as the sun’ s energy heats the air and the land’ s surface instead of evaporating water as it usually would as there is no water to evaporate. The increased temperatures along with the stronger winds as I mentioned while explaining hurricanes will also mean more forest fires, which again mean more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere so the Earth again, heats up even more.
What are the organisms is the melting permafrost effecting?
And with these changes and increases, New Zealand ' s native species are going to come under threat.
Over half of 50,000 New Zealand species are found nowhere else in the world. 75 % plus of our vascular plants, 93 % of alpine plants, 80 % of 20,000 invertebrates, 71 % of our bird species, and 70,000 species of our land animals are all endemic. But because of the rising temperature our native animals are becoming severely threatened. With the permafrost melting, as I said earlier, temperatures will rise. This means that because of global warming there will be increased fire