3. Image Selection

 

Here are some excerpts from various news sites on how climate change affects the subject matter featured in my piece:

polar bear - the melting of the Arctic sea ice threatens polar bear survival

glacier - Climate change is heating up the Arctic faster than anywhere else

migrating birds - birds turning into zombie-like killers to defend limited resources

smoke stacks -  Greenhouse gases cause the climate to warm by trapping heat from the Sun in the Earth's atmosphere

hurricane pattern - Warmer sea surface temperatures could intensify tropical storm wind speeds, potentially delivering more damage if they make landfall. Based on complex modeling, NOAA has suggested that an increase in Category 4 and 5 hurricanes

burning trees - climate change makes wildfires more common, larger, and more intense