GET READY FOR MELTDOWN
By: Frank Lennard
I've just read Daily Planet Media front page report that the Antarctic ice cap has melted by 75 per cent over the past decade and that the ice loss is more than twice the annual flow of the River Nile when it reaches the sea.
The melting Antarctic glaciers added 192 billion tonnes of water to the ocean while the western ice sheet lost 132 billion tones. Isn't it time for the UN to call for an emergency meeting and call all the nations of the world to action.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported that there was uncertainty about ice melt from Antarctica and Greenland. There is no longer any uncertainty as the evidence shows that vast stores of frozen water on the two polar ice caps won't be stable for much longer.
The world should get ready for the big meltdown, as it appears that none of the world's leaders want to face up the global warming on planet Earth.
17 January 2008
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Daniel W.
2008-04-22 03:03:49The average temperature will raise additional 2.5 to 10.4 degrees by 2100. Climatologists believe that human activities are the main cause of global warming. Clearing land and burning fossil fuels are the main human activities that contribute to global warming. Automobiles, factories, and power plants that provide energy for houses and office buildings are places where most Carbon dioxide or CO2 is created. This greenhouse effect warms Earth through a complex process involving gases, sunlight and particles in the atmosphere. If global warming continues, there could be many damaging effects. Plants and animals that live in the sea could be harmed. Flooding, drought and increased storms could occur because of changes in weather patterns. Polar ice thawing could raise sea levels. The spreading of human disease and declining crop yields could happen in some parts of the world. Climatologists have studied two key methods to limit global warming. One method is limiting CO2 emissions by replacing fuels with energy sources that do not emit CO2. The other method is to use fossil fuels more efficiently. There is no “quick fix” to the problem of global warming.
Janie Baxter
2008-04-03 08:36:48I feel for those indigenous hunters who have lost their lives because of the melting polar cap. Joe Morrison from the North Australian Indigenous Sea Management Alliance told a climate change meeting in Darwin, Australian that hunters have gone out hunting and they have fallen through ice and so forth and people have lost their lives. The meeting has also heard how islands are being lost in the Pacific Ocean to rising sea levels. Many of the Pacific islands are very small islands and very low lying. These islands are experiencing a lot of king tides which are taking over and taking away a lot of islands and a lot of indigenous estates.
Jay Hall
2008-02-11 03:42:07It's all to blame us.