How Melting Polar Ice Affects Ocean Levels
Some researchers have seen how much the polar ice melting affects the rising levels of the ocean. What is shown here is that this is a true concept because the water will rise as much as the ice melts. This is happening in the north and south pole during the past century. This have been a big environmental issue but has never been really take action on it, from the research you can see that if all the ice melts in the south pole sea levels will increase by meters or 200 feet.This could be a major problem due to the fact that even the slightest rise of water it will cause flooding in low elevation areas. In 2007, researched reported that 634 million people live in locations where its less than nine meters above sea level which is only 30 feet and is very dangerous.
I chose this article because its very interesting how much the rise f sea levels can affect us. By the rising of sea level we can lose a lot of land maybe even land where we grow crops and that's not very beneficial to any of us. It is also interesting because we never though that such big change will happen so soon , we think that the rise will affect us in some way but not such a big impact but we are wrong because it can risk the life of many people. What is most interesting to me is that we focus on what it will affect us but not those animals living and depending on these areas and i think we choudl be catious of that as well. This reminds me of the time i saw a video which compared the rise of carbon and global warming and it reminded me of how much resources we use and how dependent we are that we don't pay attention on how much harm we cause. What i think is significant about this article is that we can see how this affects us over the period. It is important to keep in my in our every day life of what we do and how big our actions are and this article helped with that. The next steps are just moving on with life but in a different path which is helping the ecosystem. |
Title:Seashore Science: How Melting Polar Ice Affects Ocean LevelsAuthor:
By Science Buddies http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bring-science-home-sealevel-rise&page=2 Date: January 10th 2013 |