The Polar Ice Caps To Date

Global warming has been here Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, when we started releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. In today’s world global warming has been such a big impact, in most of the news to date. Global warming has affected the polar ice caps causing many implications for the planet especially for icebergs and the ice in the Arctic or Antarctic and to the world oceans.

The total global temperature has increase among the years 1850 to 2005 is 0.76°C (1.36°F) and the rate of warming averaged over the last 50 years is nearly twice that for the last 100 years. This makes specialist and scientist watch the ice caps very closely. Scientist believe now is because of “harbinger of things to come”.

Because Global warming has affected Arctic’s temperature and region, the temperature is rising twice as fast than anywhere else in the world. The polar ice caps are getting thinner and melting cause the ice to crack. The melting of the polar ice caps are already affecting native people, wildlife and plants.

Wildlife such as Polar bears, whales, walrus and seals are changing their feeding and migration patterns, making it harder for native people to hunt them. And along Arctic coastlines, entire villages will be uprooted because they're in danger of being swamped. The native people of the Arctic are viewing global warming as a threat to their cultural identity and their very survival.

A bigger question that we are asking ourselves if the melting of the polar ice caps are going to affect any other region besides the polar and the answer is yes. While the ice is melting from the Arctic the sea level will begin to rise causing the low-lying areas around the world with beach erosion, coastal flooding, and contamination of freshwater supplies.

Can we stop global warming and the Ice Caps from melting; the answer is yes we can! We need to stop wasting energy such as fossil fuel, oil, coal and gas and start generating other wise to use a different source of energy such as wind, sun and modernized power planets. With today’s technology in the world we can do a lot to prevent and stop global warming and the ice caps from melting. 

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