Ezra Millstein watches Florida for the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Change Campaign. Increasing sea level will threaten fresh water drinking supplies, it will threaten public health in terms of the increase in range of vector-borne diseases, and there's going to be an increase in extreme weather events like hurricane activity, which obviously has great effect in the state of Florida. With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. New research shows the world's average temperature set 16 consecutive monthly records starting in 1997, continuing concern not only about Global Warming, but also the speed with which it's happening.
Trees can adapt for example to changes in climate over centuries.
But they don't have legs, they can't pick up and move somewhere else in a 10 year time frame or a 20 year time frame. Some of these temperature changes and impacts that we're seeing really stretch the ability of places like the Everglades and the coral reefs to be able to thrive in their ecosystems. With help from its Environmental Studies Program, we're produced at the Whitaker Center at Florida Gulf Coast University and funded by the Southwest Florida Council for Environment Education. New research says it is unlikely that natural causes brought 16 consecutive months of record global temperatures, adding more credibility to claims that humans and pollution are causing global warming. This big rise in temperature that we've seen over the past couple of years probably isn't just nature.