They worry that the next century s climate will change more abruptly than it has in at least 10,000 years, which will push plants and animals to the edge of existence. When the rains began the first week of July, as Brittain returned Hong Kong to China, the Chinese saw it as a good sign. Then the rain didn t stop and thousands of people were left homeless by the worst flood they had experienced in a century. Changes in the earth s climate and physical landscape effects us and all living creatures whom we share this world with.
Flooding is just one example of the changes our planet is going through.
1996 was the worst hurricane season in recorded history. The eastern seaboard of the United States experienced more and bigger hurricanes then ever before. The Pacific ocean phenomenon, El Nino, has returned three years earlier than its seven to ten year cycle, according to Scripts Institute of Oceanography, Nasa satalites, and temperature boyies. El Nino is a warm current which was named after the Chirst Child because it is first noticeable around Christmas. El Nino last occured in 1992 and 1993.