Science Current Events #2

Science Current Events #2/ Greenland Glaciers

Everyone knows about how the glaciers are melting all over the world, but now the ice sheets in Greenland are disappearing faster then at ever. It has been said that the water level has been rising at a rate of 0.75mm , which is equal to 273 Gt( 1 Gt is equal to 1 cubic kilometre of water) each year. An author of an paper and a professer of the University Of Bristol has said, " It's clear from these results that mass loss from Greenland has been accelerating from the 1990's, and the underlying causes suggest this trend is to likely to continue in the near future..." The whole of Greenland's ice sheets are good enough to have a Global sea, rise seven metres. Fortunetly, some of the meltwater that refroze and the snowfall has helped the ice sheets from losing to much mass, otherwise the mass loss would have been double by now. The mass loss of Greenland's ice sheets has been confirmed by a new study in Science.
The loss of the ice sheets, is an effect of Global Warming. As well as the melting ice, a lot of other damages have been occuring all around the world due to Global Warming. The destruction due to Global Warming is like how all the ice is melting, how animals are getting endangered, and believe it or not us humans are being damaged the most. All of Global Warming is because of us and it is backfiring on us too. Since the water level is rising it will only harm us, and if not stop, we can atleast try our best to slow down Global Warming. We can try to recycle more often, carpool more often, turn of the lights when we aren't using them , and reuse more things instead of throwing something out after just using it once. All the small things can make a major impact on the future. The melting ice will lead to great mishap and to prevent this everyone should take part in helping to make a wonderful and safe life.

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp