The polar ice caps are melting! 
Ice caps are making way for new spaces in the Antartica, for example a waterway in 2005 may not be there anymore in 1998. Since 1960, Anvers Island's glacial mantle has pulled its skirts in by about 30 ft annually. 
This is the making of a global phenomena- Global warming.
Earth is unstoppably entering a heat wave that could last centuries, although we don't feel it, or think a few degrees change will not change our lives drastically.
Although computerized models do not show that the arctic climate is increasing more drastically than other areas in the world, since the 1940s, temperatures have increased 3-4degrees Farenheight on average annually, and in winter (shockingly) 7-4degress Farenheight in the southern hemisphere! In the winter, the rate of global warming is ten times global average.
If we think that it is nothing to worry about, we are wrong because the climate change predictions made 30 years ago are the problems we are facing now. In two years, 1 000 square miles of the Larsen Ice Shelf have collapsed and is beginning to disintegrate more & more.
It's not the work of one man alone but of the whole world. Deforestation in Indonesia can indirectly cause the ozone layer crisis. I think it is time we wake up so that we don't walk off the edge of the earth.
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/pha0213l.jpg
http://www.palmerstation.com/history/6575/francais1.jpg
http://igloo.gsfc.nasa.gov
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/7/75/250px-Larsen_B_Collapse
2 comments:
global warming is a concerned topic nowadays. More people have noticed the serious effects global warming may result and has resulted.
In a globalized world, it seems not only the cultual, economy and technology are integrating each other, weather also joins in the fun, and adds trouble to us.
forgot to say, I'm Yunru :)
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