Climate change is a hard concept for President Trump to understand. The president thinks humans haven’t contributed to hotter summers and frequent life-threatening storms. But the evidence that the planet is in the process of reorganizing land masses and oceans is obvious to climate scientists. The scientists that track glacier and permafrost melting think those changes and others will alter how people experience life on the planet.
Some climate scientists think the melting permafrost will release dormant organism into the atmosphere. Those organisms will spread serious diseases that didn’t exist before climate change hit the point of serious global disruption.
According to Forbes, climate change erased a tiny mammal from the planet in 2009. The mammal that Forbes listed as extinct is a tiny rodent on an Australian island. Scientist call the rodent the Bramble Cay melomy. Bramble Cay is the only island this mouse-looking creature inhabited, according to scientists. Bramble Cay is a 12-acre grass-and- sand island that sits in the Torres Strait. The Torres Strait is close to Papua New Guinea. Bramble Cay is also the breeding ground for green turtles, according to the Forbes article.
There are scientists who still believe the tiny rodent may still live on Papua New Guinea. But the Bramble Cay melomy vanished on Bramble Cay in 2009, so it’s doubtful the rodents made it to Papua New Guinea before rising sea levels, fierce storms, and hotter temperatures took their breeding grounds away.
But the disappearance of the Bramble Cay melomy is not the only climate change victim. The insect population is under climate change attack too. Scientists predict the entire insect population will disappear by the end of the century unless people become aware of insect extermination issue. If the insects disappear, humans won’t be far behind. Insects are the foundation that keeps the food chain intact.
Most climate change scientists believe the damage climate change damage is irreversible. Humans may slow down these Earth changes, but without the support of countries like the United States that won’t happen. Climate change is a national emergency. And the disappearance of the Bramble Cay melomy proves that point even though that tiny rodent never made front page news.
