Photo Gallery: Things that won't be there anymore -- if we don't act quickly on global warming

Weekly angst: My husband has a video, "Things That Aren't There Anymore," about places he remembers from his youth in Pittsburgh -- like an ice cream shop, an amusement park and a shopping arcade. The grandkids -- Bryan, Evan and Sabrina -- laugh at the title and the concept. But they won't be laughing if they end up showing their own grandkids video of all the natural things from their youth that won't be there anymore, thanks to global warming and our unwillingness to stop it. Here are some of the things they may find only in captivity at a zoo, dead and stuffed in a museum or on a video -- if we don't get serious about greenhouse gases.


Snows of Kilimanjaro
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Tambako The Jaguar.)


King penguins
(Photo from Flickr and photographer nao-cha.)



Miniature Key deer in Florida Keys
(Photo from Flickr and photographer key lime pie/anna wiz.)


Glaciers at Glacier National Park
(Photo from Flickr and photographer rbeforee.)


Staghorn coral
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Stuart Hamilton.)


Australian Koala bears
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Dabe Murphy.)


Polar bears
(Photo from Flickr and photographer davipt/Bruno Rodrigues


Rare narwhal whales in the Arctic
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Chris Corwin.)


Maldive Islands, just 3 feet above sea level
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Merlin_1/Simon.)


Summer Arctic sea ice
(Photo from Flickr and photographer Tunde Pecsvari.)


Harp seals
(Photo from Flickr and photographer yeimaya/Gale.)


Walruses
(Photo from Flickr and YukonWhiteLight/Amanda Graham.)