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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