Week 8: Climate Change in San Diego, CA - Jon Morris

It is the year 7010, and although my time on Earth is almost over, I wanted to see the land of my birth one last time, so my family and I took a space capsule down to Southern California to see what has happened to my hometown of San Diego.

People were raising the alarm concerning climate change as far back as the 1980s, and it appears that they were not wrong.   There never was a consensus in regards to whether or not climate change was affected anthropogenically, so nothing serious was done to address it.  Because the arctic sea ice has almost completely melted, the sea level has risen as much as fifteen feet in some places, and the beaches of my childhood are no more.  Most of the islands off of the coast of San Diego are no longer visible due to the rising sea levels, and the greater San Diego area now appears as if it is part of an island chain instead of a contiguous land mass.

It is really sad when you understand that much of this could have been avoided if we had done better with our stewardship of the planet.  Here is a map that represents the land loss of not only California, but the North American continent as well.  The areas highlighted in blue represent the lost land.  As you can see, San Diego is no longer a part of the visible landmass of North America.

                              Photo retrieved from National Geographic at:        https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps/

Week 8 - Fort Lauderdale

Photo retrieved from: https://www.langan.com/locations/fort-lauderdale-florida/

Using the Avenger's time travel machine, I traveled about 5,000 years into the future. It is now 7010 and I surprisingly landed on Fort Lauderdale coastal city. However, it wasn't surprising to see the difference between Fort Lauderdale in 2019 and Fort Lauderdale in 7010. The shoreline has moved up quite a bit and there seems to be less land. In other words, it seems as if the sea has swallowed up some more land. In fact when I time traveled to Antarctica of the same year,I could barely see any ice at all! Looking around to observe the cause of the rise in sea levels, I can see that people are still driving their cars a lot. I see people using coal for cooking. I suspect that the amount of coal left in the world is little now in the year of 7010; it wouldn't surprise me if we had no fossil fuels left to burn or use. All of that burning of fossil fuels has really done a number on the increase of sea levels here at Fort Lauderdale. Natural contributions to global warming took a while; at least very little change every year. With the addition of anthropogenic effects such as humans burning a lot of fossil fuels,it seems like sea levels has risen even a couple years before I came here in 7010. It's no doubt that global warming occurred here in Fort Lauderdale and it's sad because although I wished to enjoy more views of the ocean, there is even smaller views of Earth's land. It seems a little bit too late, but it seems like laws were put up to only use fossil fuels at certain times. For example, I found out that the huge line I saw was a line to get fossil fuels. The prices on fossil fuels has risen to $200 and individuals get only one type of fossil fuel per 2 weeks! So far, it seems like these laws would help moderate the drastic climate change, but it seems to be too late.Considering this 5,000 year time frame, i think people now see the consequences between global warming and burning plenty of fossil fuels. One huge important one is that there are barely any glaciers left. In fact, ever since I've time traveled, I haven't seen on glacier yet. I see some people praying to see more glaciers. Some geologists have lost their jobs because there are barely any glaciers to even study and observe. Coming back to the year of 2019, I must warn everyone of what awaits the future if we humans continue burning too much fossil fuels... But it will be hard to convince people of my experience especially because my camera does no function backwards when time traveling. 

Kaszuba - Week 8

In this week travel we will be adventuring one thousand years into the future. I will be visiting the coastal town of Ocean City, Nj. When I arrived, I noticed I was swimming in shallow water with ruins of what was once a town. It is clear that the coastal town has been swallowed up by the ocean due the water levels rising.  But also, in the distance, I see many wind mills capturing coastal breezes and turning them into energy. It looks as if we were too late to curve the damages of global warming, but the continuous efforts in 2019 for greener energy may have lessened the overall damage that could have been caused. The changes we make today towards green practices and sustainability will have drastic effects on our future. A little change can have a huge impact!

Week 8

Global Warming is a very serious problem among our Earth. It is affecting so many things including wildlife, and us as human beings. In the next thousands of years I too for see our coastlines being engulfed in water this could be especially prominent in Alaska or the North or South Pole where there are many glaciers melting more and more each day affecting animals such as the polar bear. I also believe that global warming will cause us as human beings to seek new life possibly on a entirely different planet unless we make it known and work together to try and come up with a solution to save our beautiful earth and the animals including ourselves that inhabit here. Below I have posted a picture captured by satellites of what half a century of global warming has done too Antartica.



https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_antarctica.html

Week 8 - Cobe Karhoff

Today I visited the formerly great city of San Fransisco. The year is 7010 and nothing is what it use to be 5,000 years ago. San Fransisco is right on the coast of the Pacific Ocean and was once known as the city of Silicon Valley, but it is no longer a functional city due to rising water in the ocean that swallowed up the entire city. The reason for this is because of the melting ice caps which then led to the water level to rise up to 8 feet! Our society was split on the idea of global warming and if it was actually real or not and while we were arguing about this the water just continued to rise. The warmer weather caused the ice caps to melt and then submerging not only San Fransisco, but other coastal cities. Some still debate whether it was us humans who caused this warmer climate change or if it was a natural occurrence and there was no way of stopping this horrendous event.

Week 8 - Global Warming - United states coast

In 5000 years I believe that most coastal areas will be underwater and no longer livable conditions. Now with that being said most life will have to migrant further inland or to new bodies of land that are being created. We could even develop the abilities to have some cities located underwater though I see our people migrating to other worlds and terraforming them as a more likely event. Either way space will become harder and harder to find on this planet.

Week 8 Antarctica

For my final trip of the year I decided to visit the Antarctic Peninsula. The year is 7010 and the world a we know it now is gone. The seas have rose over 100 ft, the earth is experiencing extreme weather patterns and the antarctic peninsula is part of the reason. Since our global government couldn't come to an agreement about our environment we stayed on the same path as we were in in the early 2000's. Much of the ecosystem that once flourishing in the icy wasteland is now extinct or on the brink of extinction. What used to be their home is now melted into the ocean. Frozen diseases and toxins from the past unfroze and destroyed civilizations and ecosystems across the globe. As predicted the average temperature on the continent rose .5 degrees Celsius every decade and the average temperature is now 2,500 degrees warmer than it was. Even as the earth got continuously warmer no one believed that we had caused it now we don't have a planet to live on.

Week 8: Global Warming - Natural Cycles in Guangzhou, China

Guangzhou at max 1.5m rise of sea levels (Cassidy, The CITYFix)

In 5000 years from now, I think that a major coastal city like Guangzhou, China, or any other major coastal town in the world for that matter, will no longer be inhabitable, at least not as is conceived today. Indeed, there must have been a gradual shrinkage of the human population for Planet Earth to survive and our civilization to persist. A large section of humans, animals, and vegetation would have faced a degree of biological extinction. We will be recovering from a major biodiversity loss. Sea levels would have risen from 3 to 4 meters as one of the potential long-term effects of global warming.

The surviving inhabitants of Guangzhou would have harnessed major technological breakthroughs in critical sectors, such as energy and fundamental understanding of the nature of the universe. This knowledge will allow them to live precariously on a few sections of their city by, for example, farming the ocean and sees.

However, some others will be living intermittently on other planets as well. Indeed, thanks to their newly acquired knowledge, Mars and Venus will be terraformed for the convenience of migration from Earth. Simultaneously, they will be in the process of attempting to “repair” an unrecognizable Guangzhou, whose climate oscillates now between cool and too hot for human life. For example, they would try to change old transport systems or enhance the type of settlements known in this major city today.

Coastal City 7019

Here I am at the coastal city of Staten Island. 5,000 years ago you could see the beautiful skyscrapers and the wonderful little shops that brought this community together. Due to global warming and the lack of care for preventing this the people who resided in Staten Island started to experience the change on the coast.The lack of care for the environment and how we could possibly help 5,000 years ago was ignored and as we are here in the year 7010. There is no human population and what was once a beautiful coastal city is now submerged.

If only we could have maybe been more prepared in  the year 2019 and actually took advantage of recycling and protecting the environment from all of these dangerous gases we release in the air. In the year 7010 we can actually go to Staten Island and enjoy what this coastal city has to offer.

Lake Superior - 7019

Lake Superior Shores-7019

 The history books speak of the glory and wonder of Lake Superior, the largest fresh water source in the world. The beauty that the history books speaks of his difficult to imagine when visiting Lake Superior today. Because of human neglect, global warming, and human health this once great lake is no longer at its prime.

Lake Superior is over grown with algae blooms and harmful water bacteria that is killing over the sea life and affecting human health. Because climate change was ignored for years snowfall and ice cover rose and lasted for much longer increments leading to rising water levels and massive storm damage around the lake. What were once called "500 year storms" are now happening monthly.

As a people, we must work to lesson the damage of our forefathers and work diligently to reclaim the beauty that once was Lake Superior.

Week 8: Global Warming

Staring out into the stars from our nice, habitable space station, it's easy to forget the conditions and ecological factors that humans needed to survive through thousands of years ago on planet Earth that we've read about on our digital textbooks. Life here in Alpha Centauri must be so luxurious compared to those people had to live through. Today, however, after days of reading and only imagining how it was, we finally get to experience it firsthand through our non-interfering time machines! The station researchers almost never let students use these, but after asking so many questions about what life on Earth was like, they finally agreed to let my class use them for the day.

Finally getting into my assigned time machine, I was initially overwhelmed by the amount of buttons and switches that were all around the single chair. As soon as I strapped myself in, however, everything went dark except for a single screen, which audibly asked, "What time and where?" Already knowing I wanted to visit London, one of the ancient cities that our textbooks always seem to mention, I had forgotten which age our professor wanted us to visit - was it 2019 or 9019? Playing it safe, I answered, "London, Earth, 7019," and closed my eyes.

View from my Time Machine (but really from the ISS Cupola, courtesy of NASA)

By the time it was over, I was already feeling the machine unexpectedly sway to and fro - I opened my eyes and realized the machine was floating in water, and looking outside, there was water as far as the eye could see, which only a few patches of land far into the distance. As I opened one of the time machine windows, a waft of extremely warm air hit my face, almost like stepping into one of the nuclear propulsion engineering rooms back home. I tapped my artificial intelligence companion watch, which confidently confirmed that yes, we were in 7019 London. Wondering why London looked like an ocean, I asked it to open my interactive textbook.

Apparently, early in the 2000s, despite the dire warnings by global warming experts and scientists, the people on Earth continued to disregard reports and evidence of skyrocketing warming trends. The most affecting trend was the global warming that resulted from the trapping of heat through gases in the Earth's atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor, mostly as a result of the rapid rise of technology and machinery during those ages. Several attempts and initiatives to reverse this climbing CO2 rate were tried towards the end of the 21st century, such as electric cars and alternate energy sources (which, personally, seem quite primitive compared to what we have on the station), but the warming of the Earth came much quicker than expected. The growing of the population led to an increasing need for agriculture and industry to feed and sustain everyone, which meant much of the land that had helped naturally keep CO2 down had to be utilized. The changing climate also resulted in an increased amount of weather and natural cataclysms. 

Apparently, at the time, there was more than five million cubic miles of ice on the Earth, which would raise the sea level more than 200 hundred feet - because of the increasing carbon footprint, the average temperature on Earth rose from 58 degrees to ultimately almost 80 degrees. Thank goodness for the temperature regulators on our space station! Because of this gradual temperature raise, the immense glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets all eventually melted to contribute to the global rising sea level, causing all coastal cities - such as London - to become relics under the water. After throwing all that information at me, my watch took a pause, then produced the following map virtually to display the difference between the Earth years of 2000 and 7000 in terms of sea level:

Europe (and London) in 7019 (courtesy of National Geographic)

I slowly realized that many of the cities I had on my list to time-travel to today - such as Venice, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Philadelphia, San Francisco - all had the same watery fate that I had before me. I also realized that my watch had continued spewing knowledge, describing how Earth's scientists went into the third millennium developing new technologies that slowly stopped and perhaps reversed the effects of global warming and the CO2 levels, but by then, the damage had already been done to Earth. Other technologies took priority at that point, which eventually lead to the necessary space colonization that was the beginning potential of my current and seemingly luxurious life in the stars. In 7019, the hope was that with humans out of the picture and the entirety of Earth deemed an Intergalactically Preserved Planet, an ice age would naturally trigger and potentially send the Earth through another cycle that would once again see ice as a dominant force in the natural system.

My watch finally concluded, reminding me that this information will be on the next test, and that it will come in handy once our space station visits Earth next year. Coincidentally, the time machine beeped, indicating that it was time for me to return to my own time. Already scheming about ways to sneak back into the time machine room soon to travel to the 2000s to actually see London at its finest, I strapped myself back into the time machine and said, "Home, present-day." 

References:
Carr, A. (2017, March 27). We're Due For Another Ice Age But Climate Change May Push It Back Another 100,000 Years, Researchers Say. Retrieved from https://weather.com/news/climate/news/ice-age-climate-change-earth-glacial-interglacial-period
Folger, T. (2013, September). Rising Seas. Retrieved from https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/09/rising-seas-coastal-impact-climate-change/
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Week 8: Morgan Florence

Imagine, as you walk outside to escort your child to school, a reflection of a green fog lurks over you from the green house bubble of pollutants. Vehicles will no longer be an option of transportation due to the increase of fumes. Most days you are advised to stay indoors due to the dense amount of carbon monoxide in the air the heat index exceeding ‘black flag’ conditions.

Waste concentration in the world will have exceeded the vacancy of personal space. Mid 5000 there was a boom of population, creating less space for building and industry creation. Although there is less space, production does not stop, which means pollution does not either. Fumes from trash improperly disposed of will reek from a mile away, the trash buried in the ground (to help make space)- contaminates the scarce water sources needed to survive. Rations of potable water will be provided to families of priority. Fish industries will no longer be at work, warm water species will take over all bodies of water, thus killing off the cold water fish that are considered to be the backbone of the industry. Children will be taught the meaning and significance of the once had ‘glaciers’, as these will no longer be, as the melting resulted in emergence flooding in parts or the world.

Around year 5000, increase of population created less space for building and less job opportunities. By 1710, the population has decreased as life expectancy and the value of life has declined greatly within 2000 years. Techniques of burying trash, resulting in other contamination was meant to adapt to the issues rather than make them worse. Natural contributions to global warming such as glaciers melting- creating emergence flooding in countries create hardening affects from the initial impact from the 1500 to 1710, due to the constant treading of the environment and the people.

Week 8 - Kody Johnson

Bahrain was once a beautiful island in the Persian Gulf. Due to much abuse from humans, Bahrain has suffered a massive amount of coastal erosion. Due to rising sea levels, Bahrain lost over half of its already small land mass. Due to most of the countries population being located near the coast, the country had to rebuild and move closer into the center of the island. This impacted the economy in a serious way. The shifting of the climate over time affected the water supply, causing many Bahraini citizens to have to go without water for extended periods of time. What was once a beautiful island is now devastated due to global warming. Most of the population had to flee to the mainland to survive.

Week 7 - Kody Johnson

Death Valley is an interesting place. Very little seems to grow in the valley, but it is rich with what appear to be igneous rocks. The first stop that I chose is the Ibex Dunes. The dunes appear to begin with sands at the bottom but turn to rough igneous rocks as you move towards the top. There appears to be a possible road in between the sinking spot of the dunes. Before getting to the dunes, the land is quite flat, which leads me to believe that there may have been water in the area at some point. Some questions I would have about this location would be concerning the dip between the dunes. Is that a road between them and how far does that spot sink? It could be possible that the divide was created due to water erosion. I can’t quite tell from this picture, but it appears some of the hills may have folding present.

The next stop on the trip will be Saratoga Springs. I chose this stop due to the little vegetation with running water. The rock near the spring appears to be the sedimentary rock sandstone. The vegetation is very dry and scattered. A question I would have about this place would be what is the source of the water for the spring? Could there be a nearby river to supply the spring with water? The nearby hills appear to be dark in color. This tells me the hills are more than likely made up of sedimentary rocks due to the color and appearance of the hills. Without further analysis, it’s hard to say for sure.

The final stop on our tour will be the Split Cinder Cone. This is an interesting place due to the offset of the hills as well as the vibrant color of it. The split is more than likely due to some sort of fault line. I’m curious to know the type of rock that makes up these hills. The rock leading up to the hills appears to be sand stone. One thing that leads me to believe there is a fault here is the decline to the Split Cinder Cone with a rise on the other side.

Week 8 - Eric Valero

I was born in Houston, and at my birth the city was near the Gulf of Mexico, but not a coastal city. It took some time to travel from the city to the beach. When I returned 5000 years in the future, the situation was quite different. In 5000 years, the environment on Earth is still teeming with life- the atmosphere is similar to the Pliocene period of Earth's history. Rising levels of CO2 have allowed plant life to flourish by nourishing plants and raising global temperatures, resulting in a more tropical-like environment further from the equator. Sea life has struggled, on the other hand, as a result of rising ocean acidity, also from excess C02. Many coral reefs have died off as a result. Most notably, even with a modest 3M of sea level rise from partially melted glacier runoff (in the early Pliocene, sea levels were 40 M higher than today), Houston is now a coastal city. It is possible that further runaway greenhouse warming may some day submerge much of the world in oceans, reclaiming the land which was revealed as global temperatures dropped and sea levels plummeted in the ancient past. This is not likely though, as fossil fuel use has dropped entirely out of human behavior, it ran out long ago. Instead, nuclear, solar, wind, and other renewables power human activity. These carbon neutral power sources do not contribute to global warming. The beef industry also became economically unsustainable as the human population grew, and has been replaced by meatless alternatives for the vast majority of human consumption. This has also reduced the effects humans have on global warming. So, as it is, I can sit back in my future chair on my future coast in future Houston, enjoy the rising tide and warm weather, and take pleasure in the fact that the Earth did not provide us with enough resources to self destruct before scarcity forced us in another direction.

Week 8- Global Warming - Meagan Valero

What once was beautiful tropical islands here in Tahiti some 5,000 years ago have now been washed away due to global warming. The affects of rising tides has forced 270 thousand inhibitors to abandon their homes and seek shelter else where. Due to the lack of support regarding global warming the Tahitian people began to feel the affect of climate change long before the sea levels started to rise at a dangerous rate. Many small villages saw a great impact on their local economy. The tourism industry was of great importance to the French Polynesian economy but due to the cost of rebuilding beach front hotels and resorts from erosion and needing to push back tourist areas in-land, the area because an unpopular vacation spot. Visiting now this once tropical paradise we are left with nothing more then ocean as far as the eye can see. However we are able to spot glimpses of the peak of Mont Orohena, which was once the highest peak in the French Polynesian islands. We can only hope now that the people of the world see the disastrous affect of global warming and put more emphasis on the need for renewable energy we can hope to reduce the sea levels and once again enjoy the tropical nature of Tahiti. Unfortunately, the islands may never again be inhabitable but we can hope to reduce the risk of it happening to other beautiful islands like it.

Week8- Global Warming 
(Bethsaida Colina)

5,000 thousand years ago the world was totally different as the world we know today. In 2019, our planet was beautiful and full of life despite the effects of global warming that were starting back then. The society didn’t change their habits, they kept having the same lifestyles, and they didn’t do anything to help our planet from climate change. Therefore, the sea level was increasing because the glaciers were melting due to high temperatures around the world. 

Human activities were changing the natural greenhouse. The greenhouse effect is warming that results when the atmosphere traps heat radiating from Earth toward space. The consequences of changing the natural atmospheric greenhouse were difficult to predict, but certain effects were warmer conditions in some regions of the world especially in the north and south pole. The rising of the temperature ended up melting the glaciers and flooding the beaches around the world. 

My favorite beaches were the Riviera Maya, the water was crystalline, light blue with turquoise color, and with amazing weather all year long. After the glaciers melted, the Riviera Maya disappeared under the water. People who used to live near the beach lost their houses and land. The sea level rise and flooded a sixth part of the Mexican country. After this catastrophe, society changed their habits in order to help the planet, but it was already too late because the worst was coming. People started panicking and invented new ways to save the planet; however, their inventions kept contaminating the world and wasting a big portion of our clean water. Here are couple pictures of Riviera Maya from 2019.

Riviera Maya 2019

Resorts 2019

2000 years later, the planet had only two-thirds of water, some green areas became deserts, volcanoes were exploding constantly, and earthquakes were more frequently in California, Mexico, Pacific Islands, and Chile. Humanity was vanishing and facing their biggest fear and challenge of all times. Our planet was dying and screaming for help. 

Year 4020

The richest people in the world gathered together in order to save the world and humanity. It took them close to 1000 years to reverse climate change. The new inventions helped to create new glaciers and filtrated all the gases in the atmosphere such as Nitrous Oxide, Carbon Dioxide, and Methane in order to reverse the greenhouse effect. Humanity worked so hard to save what we have today. Now, our planet is in developing thanks to the newest technology, the core is stable and the tectonic plates aren’t crashing as frequent as they used to crash. Our planet is healing, and we must keep working together to save the planet and humanity. 

Reference

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

Death Valley Field Trip

On the first stop of our Death Valley field trip, we will go to Darwin falls. Darwin falls is divided into the upper and lower sections with a grotto in between. It is located on the Western edge of Death Valley. The canyon that covers this fall is walled by dramatic plutonic rock. This fall is said to be fed by volcanic tableland of the Darwin Bench.

                                                                      after examing this picture I am wondering what kind of rocks compose the falls itself? I would also like to discover how the volcanic tableland plays a role in producing and upkeeping the contents of this fall.

The next stop we will make is Amargosa Range this stop has been identified as a mountain range and characterized by the U-shaped river that flows clockwise around it. It has been said that this mountain range is composed of three different mountain groups which are grapvine, funeral and black. 

In looking at this picture I am curious to know how the shadow is being projected in that overview of the picture? Is this because of the lighting or rock sediment? I would also like to explore the deposits and what type of rocks created this mountain range. 

The last stop we will make is Racetrack Playa, is considered a scenic dry lake that features sailing stones that inscribes a racetrack imprint. The playa has been considered to be exceptionally flat. It is said that this occurrence is due to a major influx of fine-grained sediment that has accumulated at the north end.

After seeing this picture I wonder how is this rock leaving a trial on the ground. It appears that the ground has a hard texture, but if this trial is being left by the rock does it mean that the ground is sand? I would like to explore the geological makeup of the ground and how certain minerals my react in its environment. 

Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Amargosa-Range

https://digital-photography-school.com/is-visiting-the-racetrack-playa-in-death-valley-worth-it/

https://thesandyfeet.com/darwin-falls-death-valley/

Global Warming - Old New York

     What once was a thriving metropolitan center is nothing more than a reminder of the inaction of humankind fifty centuries ago. Over the past 5,000 years, sea levels of the Earth’s oceans continued to rise. Glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica continued to melt faster than they could freeze, resulting in the dramatic rise in sea level that consumed the once bustling town.

The continued consumption of fossil fuels and the resultant increase in carbon dioxide levels “cooked” the glaciers that remained in 2019. The increased levels of carbon dioxide trapped more heat each year, slowly raising the global temperature. The oceans did their best to absorb as much carbon dioxide as possible but eventually, they reached their capacity and the levels of carbon dioxide skyrocketed without an effective carbon sink. The greenhouse effect, which kept our planet warm enough for millennia became too strong, causing temperatures to be too high for the glaciers to survive.

     As sea levels rose, New York City, like many other coastal cities began to flood. Around the year 3000 New York City was no longer habitable. Today New York City is no longer habitable because of the degree to which sea levels rose.

     Luckily, over the past several centuries, efforts have been made to lower carbon dioxide levels in the oceans and atmosphere. As these efforts have begun to lower the greenhouse effect, glaciers are beginning to form faster than they melted. Scientists today are predicting that any year now the specific orientation earth and degree of the elliptical rotation around the sun will combine to result in a cooling period for Earth. We can only hope that the cooling temperatures will pull back the excess water into glaciers without threatening too much of civilization. If this new cooling period occurs, hopefully, humankind learned their lesson the first time of the damage that can be done when excess levels of carbon dioxide are put into our atmosphere, and instead opt for renewable energy to prevent this from becoming a cycle.

Week 8 Global Warming-Delia Madril

Santa Cruz, California

Santa Cruz used to be considered one of the most beautiful and fun places to visit. Fast forward to the year 7010 and a lot has changed. Sea level rise has put this coastal area at the forefront of the impacts of climate change. The energy of ocean waves in this area has been growing globally, which has caused a connection between ocean warming and the increase in the wave energy. The sea level has continued to rise and has disrupted the effects by allowing more waves to approach the shore areas. 

Human impacts have contributed to increases in stream temperature, which has negatively affected the aquatic organisms in the area. The biggest changes to the area are where humans and the ocean have met. The sea level rise and storms have led to climate change. Shoreline erosion and habitat loss have occurred. The presence of humans have added to the temperature rise and everything has felt the stress. Snowfall has decreased in many areas that are reliant on snowfall to provide water. Because of this the water run-off could no longer balance with evaporation because more water was coming into the ocean and much less was actually going out. This is a big reason that the sea level has rose in Santa Cruz, California. Global warming is in full affect in this area. It will never be the same as it used to be. People will not be able to enjoy the outside activities that Santa Cruz provides, because most of the beautiful areas have been wiped out.