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The water levels of the Great Lakes is an indicator for the disruption to plants and animals due to climate change.  The water levels of the Great Lakes have decreased, the decline in water levels can be caused by precipitation, snowmelt runoff, drought, evaporation rates, and anthropogenic reasons.

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The surface temperature of the great Lakes has been recorded at higher temperatures.  This causes lower levels of water because the evaporation rates has increased causing lake ice to form later than usual.  Due to lower water levels, ships were forced to reduce their tonnage from 5 to 8 percent, increasing shipping costs.

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Your child is dead because of someone else's lack of compassion. This is a common occurrence to wildlife such as deer, pandas, penguins, dolphins, polar bears, zebras, and baby seals.

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For example, warming oceans become increasingly acidified, stressing corals and causing bleaching and die-offs. Warmer waters also cause the rapid melting of Arctic sea ice, which has ramifications all along the food chain: The decline of sea ice results in the loss of ice algae, which are eaten by zooplankton. Arctic cod, which feed on zooplankton, are the prey of seals, which in turn are the main food of polar bears.

Another example, in the Rocky Mountains, climate change has raised summer temperatures 0.72˚F each decade over the last 30 years for this pygmy possum while snows are melting three to five days earlier in spring. Wildflowers bloom several days earlier, with peak flowering also occurring earlier.

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Melting glaciers, early snowmelt, and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages and increase the risk of wildfires in the American West.

Rising sea levels will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern Seaboard, especially in Florida, and in other areas such as the Gulf of Mexico.

Forests, farms, and cities will face troublesome new pests, heat waves, heavy downpours, and increased flooding. All those factors will damage or destroy agriculture and fisheries.

Disruption of habitats such as coral reefs and Alpine meadows could drive many plant and animal species to extinction.

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Effects range from temperature induced changes in the timing of plant flowering/animal behavior to the ability of plants and animals to disperse to more hospitable habitats.

IPCC concluded that over the preceding 40 years, the growing season for plants had lengthened by 4 to 16 days in the Northern Hemisphere, with greatest increase in higher latitudes.
*Many species flower earlier, birds arrive at their breeding grounds earlier, insects emerge earlier in the Northern hemisphere.