Why The Arctic Sea Ice Disappear

Scientists have given numerous warnings that human-caused, or anthropogenic, climate change is not only occurring now, but accelerating more quickly than predicted (Maibach, Myers, and Leiserowitz 295). Global warming contributes to climate change as a result of the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (“Global Warming”). The level of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere has increased significantly over the years. Patterns of warming are sufficient to conclude that this increase has coincided with the start of the Industrial Revolution (“Global Warming”). By analyzing carbon dioxide pockets that have been trapped in Antarctic ice, scientists can assuredly confirm the correlation between recent warming

The arctic is estimated to be ice free by 2030 due to global warming and the melting of the ice caps.

At the present rate of global warming most of the frozen portions of the Arctic may disappear by the end of this century.

Economic growth is vital to sustain human life; however, the unsustainable consumption of natural resources to attain this demand is leading to self-destruction. The Earth is facing environmental changes, including climate changes, which are altering the Earth system. Significantly higher thermal expansion is inescapable if the increasing pollution by carbon dioxide emission continues relentlessly. One evidence of this change is global warming and its impact in the Arctic Ice. The critical role of the Arctic in the global climate system implies that Arctic Ice changes will have far-reaching connotations for, and feedbacks to, the entire Earth. Currently, the warning signs include: rapid diminishing of sea ice, increased mass

Global climate change is an issue being debated all over the world from the recent presidential debates late last year to documentaries being created on either side of the global warming debate. Currently, the world is experiencing many tremendous changes including warming or the earth and rising of our oceans. “The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, caused by the changing climate” ”(Gillis, 2). Some believe that global warming exists while

One of the global warming changes our planet is going through is the melting of glaciers in the Arctic sea. John Hawkins states, “How much Arctic ice really matters is an open question since the very limited evidence we have suggests that a few

In one of the anecdote about Al gore’s trip to North Pole to measure ice thickness, Booker reported, “The men going on this expedition had to be airlifted back because the ice was too thick to measure with an electronic instrument” (Booker, 2015). In addition, Booker also provide another anecdote that shows “Canadian scientists studying the effect of climate change on Arctic ice ..had to suspend their research because their vessel was trapped in the thickest summer ice” (Booker 2015). With these two anecdotes, Booker believe the Arctic has not experienced the effects of climate change because the Arctic is still seen as a very cold, dangerous place. Empirically speaking, it is difficult to conduct research by sending humans to measure glaciers’ thickness in the Arctic, but this difficulty does not disprove any of the satellites data supporting the effects of climate change. The informations we have yet to find can not dismiss the evidences we do have that support how climate change is affecting ocean sea levels and

American environmentalist Jeff Goodell once said, “Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.” The destruction of the Polar Regions has caused major implications for the Earth today and has caused a positive feedback loop that ultimately will cause them to deplete further. The Polar Regions have slowly faded away due to the lack of precautions humans have taken to protect them, such as the use of chlorofluorocarbons, the destruction of the ozone layer, and the accelerated process of the Greenhouse Effect.

The cryosphere refers to the frozen water part of the Earth system including the frozen parts of the ocean, such as waters surrounding the Arctic. Recent studies show that the cryosphere is generally in a poor state, and scientific agreement stated that average global temperatures will continues to increase over the next century. This means that the existing risk to these climatically sensitive areas is increasing. In the past 20 years, the amount of summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased dramatically, and could even disappear completely within the next hundred years. Evidence shows that some of these depletions in the cryosphere are human-induced, specifically the fragmentation of sea ice when oil tankers break through the frozen waters to make a passageway. This fragmentation leads to global sea rise and habitat destruction for large predators such as polar bears and seals, in addition to other Arctic wildlife.

Climate change or colloquially known as global warming, now pose a new threat to civilization as the levels of greenhouse gases (GHG) are soaring to new levels. The most significant contributor to greenhouse gasses would be Carbon Dioxide (Co2). The levels of Carbon Dioxide (Co2) gas have risen to levels civilization has not seen before. As such, the effects of these levels are not known to civilization as data gathered from the ice cores drilled in the Antarctica only shows data up to 650,000 years ago. However we can conclude that present CO2 concentrations are higher compared to any time in the last 650,000 years (IPCC 2007). Current carbon dioxide concentrations are hovering around 389 parts per million (ppm) as of September 2011,

Over 35 years ago, climatologist Wally Broecker coined the term global warming in a paper outlining the trends that he was noticing with temperature and C02 levels (Stefan). Ever since then, the debate has heated up on the controversy of global warming. Politicians have even used the issue to boost their campaigns. Some question whether the earth’s temperature is rising at an unusual rate. Scientists perform experiments from glacial ice to observe the correlation between carbon dioxide levels and temperature. Scientists have changed the debate over the years from debating whether global warming was actually happening to the current debate about what is causing global warming. Therefore, the term global warming in this paper refers to

“An acceleration of these climatic trends is projected to occur during this century, due to ongoing increases in concentrations of green houses gases in global atmosphere. While green house gas emissions do not primarily originate in the arctic, they are projected to bring wide-range changes and impacts to arctic. These arctic changes will, in turn, impact the planet as a whole. For this reason, people outside the arctic have a great stake in what is happening there. For example, climatic processes unique to the arctic have significant effects on global and regional climate. The arctic also provides important natural resources to the rest of the world (such as oil, gas, and fish) that will be affected by climate change. And melting of arctic

From the movie “Water World” I think that if it really happens, it would be the end of the world because people can’t survive. If the Ice Caps are melting, humans should stop litering and throwing garbage to the sea, it’s because when it floods, it is way worse and they will be disgusted from what they did. Because the sea ice is floating on the ocean already and is in equilibrium with it. Sea ice varies significantly from season to season and from year to year, and the extent of its natural variability is not yet fully known. The scale of ice in the Antartica, 2.3 kilometres thick, if that Ice were to melt we are done for. Not many people realize that Global Warming is happening and doesn’t care about their surroundings, humans need to see what really happens during Global Warming, this cannot be avoided, because bad things will happen when they ignore this. Ice Melting can cause a huge amount of water going into Cities, Provinces, and Countries. The amount of water from big Ice can ruin homes and kill people. Humans

The ice surface across the globe is receding at an alarming rate year after year, as the water and globe warm the ice is not able to stay frozen.

In 2007, the Arctic reached a 30-year low for sea ice (University of Colorado at Boulder). This is because of global warming or what scientists refer to climate change. The issue with global warming is that it has impactions for damage to future generations. Prevention of a global climate change depends on early detection of human-made effects on climate. The current views on global warming are; those who do not think that the Earth is undergoing a climate change, others that believe the Earth is going through a climate change due to humans, and some who believe that Earth is going through a climate change but is not because of human activities. In order to understand global warming, we have to look to technical