Project 3_Marah Westcott

 

Penn, J. L., Deutsch, C. (2022). Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warning. Science, vol. 376  (6592), 524-526. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe9039

The study by researchers at Princeton University—published in the journal Science—used a model to estimate how various levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions would cause marine animals to lose their habitats and go extinct. Under a high-emission scenario that causes global air temperatures to jump by 4.9 degrees Celsius over the next century and keep rising thereafter, around 30% of ocean-dwelling animals may go extinct by the year 2300, an event that would "rival the severity of past mass extinctions" over hundreds of millions of years. These extinctions would be triggered by a increase in the ocean's temperature, which threatens marine animals across the globe by both taking away their usual habitats and causing water to hold less oxygen. However, under a low-emission scenario that causes air temperature increases to stop at 1.9 degrees Celsius by 2100, the severity of any marine animal extinctions would shrink by 70%, the study found.

Song: The Fall by Lovejoy 

In this project, I used a lot of keyframes to show the text moving up and getting bigger. I also used a dip to black at the end and a fade in at the beginning, since it starts at an odd moment of the song.