exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.” Al Gore According to the National Snow and Ice Data (NSIDC)‚ since 1979 the arctic sea ice minimum extent has shrunk by more than 50% and even greater amounts of ice have been lost in the corresponding thinning of the ice. Many scientists are now agreeing that the Arctic may be completely ice-free during the summers as soon as the end of this decade. This will undoubtedly cause the type of environmental blow-back that
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* As the polar ice caps melt‚ the sea levels around the world will rise. * When the sea levels did rise‚ many islands would be lost and‚ because most of the islands are poor‚ they may not be able to be evacuated in time. It is predicted that places such as London‚ Los Angeles‚ New York‚ Tokyo and Shanghai‚ were millions of the world’s population live‚ will find themselves submerged in icy water. * In 100 years‚ the sea level has been believed to rise over 6 inches. Scientists have predicted
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contribute to changes in global climate patterns” (http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basicinfo.html right sidebar). The climate of the earth has made many changes since before written history. From the first recorded ice age about 800 to 600 million years ago all the way up to the present day long summer. The planet during one of these changes expienced a warming trend. This occurred fifty-five million years ago. This rise in temperature is believed to have been caused by a natural gas -presumably methane
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Melting Ice Caps The Arctic is global warming’s canary in the coal mine. It is a highly sensitive area which is profoundly affected by the changing climate. The average temperature in the Arctic is rising twice as fast as elsewhere in the world (nrdc.org). Because of this‚ the ice cap is getting thinner‚ melting away‚ and rupturing. Here is an example of this; the largest ice block in the Arctic‚ the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf‚ had been around for 3000 years before it started cracking in 2000 (nrdc
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The young teen climbs up the stairs and smiles. Looking down at her phone‚ she doesn’t realize that she just killed a polar bear. She runs back downstairs‚ realizing she left the faucet on‚ and the lights too‚ but it is too late. This is carbon Footprints and climate change are real‚ and this is it. If the climate change keeps changing at this level‚ the polar caps will melt. Even the slightest spike in your carbon footprint can negatively impact the environment. This is not some extraterrestrial
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Climate Change Relating To Polar Ice Climate changes occur naturally over long periods of time on Earth‚ and it has been this way throughout Earth’s history. Currently‚ anthropological influences on earth have triggered a quickening rise in global temperatures and this in turn is causing a rapid change in earth’s climate. One of the major changes currently happening on earth is the melting of the polar ice caps. Major impacts relating to the melting of the polar ice caps include changes in ocean
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blocks away closes at 10 pm. f) Bob bought a new blue shirt with a golf club on the back for twenty dollars. g)For the past two days the clouds have come out at 3 pm and it has started raining at 3:15 pm. h)George did not sleep at all last night because he was up finishing his pape i) Ice cream melts faster on a warm summer day than on a cold winter day. ) The teller at the bank with brown hair and brown eyes and is taller than the other tellers. - it can be tested by considering other
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possibly other ice caps. The extra infrared radiation captured by atmosphere through the greenhouse effect is transferred into the Arctic ice caps as potential energy where the water (H2O) molecules vibrate faster and break their bonds due to the process of latent heat‚ where the temperature of the ice is prevented from falling or rising until the bonds break and a state change occurs. Thus increasing sea
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seen trucks out spreading a mixture of sand and salt on the streets after a snowfall to help deice the road. Do we sometimes dump ice cubes into a drink to help keep cool on a hot summer day? Have we ever watched the ice cubes melt and wondered how we could make them melt more slowly—or even faster? In this science activity we will get to try some different‚ common household substances to try and answer this question: What will help a solid ice cube turn into a liquid puddle the fastest? This basic chemistry project can give we some clues
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The loss of polar ice over the coming decades will lead to irreversible climate change and alter the face of the planet. The earth as we know it is a unique planet composed of global masses of air‚ land and sea. Each body interacts with each other in unique physical and biochemical ways and minute changes in one mass can lead to irreversible changes to another. Climatology is that scientific endeavour that monitors climate systems to explain loss of polar ice. The variables impacting climate and
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