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Going, Going, Going, Going What are the impacts of global warming on the Artic: Animals, glaciers, flooding, shrinking

We all know about Global warming, the increasing temperatures, heat, and the ozone melting away. Global warming has become such a major cause in our world today, spread throughout the newspapers, the Internet, and the news. What about the Artic? Where animals depend on the ice, their home and lives, but the ice is slowing making the ice melt away. Another issue circulating our minds is the casue of flooding in the Arctic Peninsula. What about the danger of melting and shrinking glaciers? In the following I will discuss the drastic changes that are happening through out the Arctic. Throughout the Arctic there is a large variety of animals, where their usual life habitats are changing due to the increasing temperatures of global warming. One of the Arctic sceices are the Polar bears who depend on the ice to hunt for food, like fish in the water. With Global warming causing the temperatures to rise in the summer by increasing amounts, Polar bears are having trouble catching food for themselves. They could eventually become extinct if the issue of heat is left un touched. If this is happing to animals then something must be down. A way to solve the solution of possible distction of polar bears, they can be put into zoos. In zoos, the bears would be well nutritioned, and have a home, that isn’t depleting. Here are a few videos that show the effects of global warming on the animals. We must take action, in the survial of the Polar Bears. Another aspect of global warming in the arctic is that there is major flooding in the artic penunsila. It could be possible because the increasing temperature is breaking apart the ice shelves causing an unstable surface. This is causing animals not to have a steady surface to live on. http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/earth/f/glaciers.20050331/ Once at site, click on video This link shows the images of the true facts of the dangers of melting ice surfaces. It has very descriptive footage of the reality of climate chage in the arctic. This next link shows that when the ice surface melts there are rising seas, which will cuase flooding. http://www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/?sid=e.f.melting_ice.20070514 Once at site click play

In the following I will discuss the issue of depleating glaciers. It might not be personally affect you, but as a whole world, getting to action on the topic of increasing temperatures is important. Receding glaciers are a major sign of climate change. Because of glaciers’ sensitivity to temperature, they are a great indicator of global climate change. One danger of melting glaciers is that immediate communities rely on glaciers for water supply. Another danger is that some communities are supsetitible to floods. Other dangers are avalanches or landslides, due to melting glaciers, caused by increasing temperature, due to Global warming. Here are some facts that scientists, have discovered about the arctic. In the summer scientists have discovered that ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 4.2 million square feet. This is about 23% more than 2 years ago. Average ice thickness decreased by about 1.13 meters, or 22 percent, between 1981 and 2000. In parts of the Arctic Ocean this year, sea surface temperatures were 3.5°C warmer than average and a full 1.5°C warmer than previously recorded. The more the ice melts the harder it is to grow back. Here is a summary of the consequences that will and have come due to less reachable water to civilians. It also examines how much fresh water is actually left in our world. Water in civilian’s lives is the most important resource that is necessary for living in a healthy environment. Water is actually my favorite drink, I drink like 5 bottles a day, if you just think about all the water is needed in our lives, think about what life would be like without it! Our world is drying up, due to Global warming. Heat is sucking up all of the after making the water source limited. Even just in my house, we leave water bowls in our rooms, and the water is constantly being absorbed in the air, because it is so dry. So finally lets think about the whole world around us, what is happening? Lets take action, and not just stand at the sidelines watching!