The Consequences Of Climate Change In Antarctica

I really appreciate all of the work you're doing spreading awareness about climate change while doing your own part to combat it. In this day and age, our work to change the course of our currently unsustainable civilization is more important than ever. That's why we must be very careful when discussing the changing climate and the repercussions that spring from it. Most conversations about climate change focus on the major problems that are going to occur in the future as a result of current human practices. Yet, it is evident that these changes are wreaking havoc in the present world that we all inhabit. That is why the narrative on climate change must change. Not only is climate change real, but it is impacting the earth in devastating ways at this very moment. Climate change should be treated as the atrocity of today, not the possible problem of the future.

In present day, the ocean is warmer now than it has been in the past 50 years. In the article, " Signs of Climate Change", it says that in 1960 the average ocean tempature change was -.3 degrees but in 2010 the average tempature change in the ocean was .6 degrees. Where I live the tempature is still continuing to rise more and more each year. With warmer ocean tempature comes rising sea level. In present day the sea level has rose by 7 inches in the past 100 years. In 2100 th tempature is around 15 inches higher than it is in present day. Both of these things are causing more tropical storms to happen and is also making the beach less and less

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, forests are drying and wildlife is suffering, these are all results of the apparent rise in global temperatures and it has become more

The Earth is where all known life resides. Climate change threatens this blue world. The opinion of one in four Americans who are skeptical does not matter on a fact with mountains of research on it. Global and sea surface temperatures are rising; heat waves are becoming more common; and glaciers are melting. Scientists say “humans are causing global warming” which affects the sensitivity of the climate. The rise in greenhouse levels from carbon dioxide and other pollutants from use of fossil fuels is a uniquely from humans.

In the United States only 24% of Americans believe that climate change is something to worry about and is a serious issue (Riffkin).

According to scientific research, the average temperature of the earth has risen by between ten and twenty degrees Celsius (M.L. Weitzman, 2008). These high temperatures could well be described as a ‘recipe for disaster’, and could produce results that would be catastrophic on a global scale. What is more alarming however, is that there is already a lot of evidence of predicted results of climate change, for instance, in Australia especially, severe draughts have been common in farming areas in the last few decades, there has been an increase of intense and extreme weather events, for example floods, flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes and tornados, almost all of the natural disasters listed have occurred for ‘unknown’ reasons in the past few years. Rises in sea water level and temperature due to higher acid levels caused by global warming, threaten the existence of species and in some areas, entire eco-systems resulting in the loss of natural biodiversity. ‘Climate change is pushing the world to the verge of environmental and economic collapse, whether global deniers want to believe it or not’ (N. Klein, 2011).

The melting of polar ice caps can be prevented by reducing the amounts of greenhouse gasses that are pumped into the environment daily, and that means that we need to slow the burning and consumption of our fossil fuels. The United States cannot stop this alone, so countries need to work together and help prevent the

Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent.Antarctica is the coldest of Earth's continents and is a frozen desert with little precipitation. There are countless number of animals(including penguins, blue whales, orcas, colossal squids and fur seals), fungi(such as Cryomyces antarcticus, and Cryomyces minteri), plants and other organisms. Nonetheless, the biodiversity is consistently changing over past century and strongly affected by the climate change in recent years.

The article says that the ice sheets respond very slowly to changes in climate that it would take longer than a century for any large scale melting to begin. The ten scientists that have been studying the Earth’s history are not to alarmed with the melting of Antarctica and nor are they surprised it is going to melt so fast.

The type of research I will be doing is about discovering more about the change of climate in Antarctica. The ice glaciers and its current temperature will be the key in finding out more about the changes in climate of the Antarctica land itself.

Generally speaking, why should we even be worrying about climate change? Well as we all know the world is getting hotter and hotter every year due to the amount of carbon dioxide and other fossil fuel being released into the atmosphere. Due to the world getting hotter both Antarctica and Greenland are changing rapidly. According to NASA “with global warming, the water under the ice shelves would be warmer and cause them to break up more readily, forming very large icebergs. If the ice shelves of West Antarctica were to break up, this would release more inland ice in an irreversible process, possibly leading to sea level rises of several meters”. With the amount of water increasing, this could lead to many natural disasters such as a flood,

Climate change is a problem in the world today. Climate change is destroying Antarctica, endangering hundreds of millions of lives, and can be effectively reduced by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth. With many glaciers and icebergs, it’s a cool place! There are many diverse organisms that live in Antarctica. Humans are changing the ecosystem in the worst ways. From oil spills to global warming, humans are harming not only Antarctica, but the animals and plants that call Antarctica home. People are dumping raw sewage and trash in the oceans. Although we may not realize it, Antarctica is being affected in negative ways.

There is an issue on this planet that will define this generation. The issue is climate change. Global warming. A world on the collapse as our oceans are acidified, our air polluted, our forests disappearing, and human rights issues getting worse. It seems that people are not aware of how big climate change actually is. It’s not something that only takes place on the ice caps or in the forests on the far corners of the world. This is an issue that happens here, and now. It’s real. It’s happening.

It is possible to conclude that Climate Change has rapidly picked up in the last few decades due to fossil fuel emissions caused by humans, creating a warming of the earth that is melting the glaciers causing sea levels to rise each year. The sea levels rising have already shown some low level communities living by the ocean just a preview of what can later be seen in many years to come. With the glaciers melting away, humans all around the world are losing an astronomical percentage of fresh water as well, which have been stored in glaciers on the edges of the globe. With the process already taking place in today’s world, the only thing left to do is to embrace the consequences, and find a way to slow down the process of melting and save some of the lands that will be soon under oceanic waters, or to adapt to the new world that we will be seeing in the near future.