Ice Melting from Global Warming Becoming a Huge Problem
The United Nations released a report today that suggests the world’s ice is melting at a much faster rate than anticipated. This means trouble, because as the ice melts, the sea levels will rise and hundreds of millions of people could be displaced.
“The futures of hundreds of millions of people across the world will be affected by declines in snow cover, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost and lake ice,” the Global Outlook for Ice and Snow report said.
“Impacts are likely to include significant changes in the availability of water supplies for drinking and agriculture, rising sea levels affecting low lying coasts and islands and an increase in hazards such as subsidence of currently frozen land.”
The melting ice and snow are not only a symptom of climate change — they also accelerate the effects. Snow and ice reflect solar energy, whereas water absorbs it. This causes the water around the ice to heat up, resulting in faster melts. (Al Gore does a great job of explaining this in his film An Inconvenient Truth
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