Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
Greenland ice loss
doubles from late 2000s
Another scientific
evidence of global warming. Ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting
at a faster speed than they had been measured before, dumping 500 cu km of ice
in the oceans annually. This amount of ice sheets is equivalent of just over a millimeter
of sea level rise per year.
A millimeter a
year a big deal? Of course it is. It means sea level could rise as much as
three centimeters just in three decades, when the global population is expected
to reach 9 billion, thirty percent more than now. How much land could be lost
or how severe the climate change is going to be? Will we have enough water
then?
A lot of actions
seem to have been taken for research. But have humans made enough practical
actions to solve this clear and present problem?
Enjoy reading and
learning about this new research findings.
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