Friday, April 15, 2011

Glacier Melting due to Global Warming

A stern threat and warning visible in the Horizon at a little distant future is that the world's “Glaciers” are melting up to 100 times faster than any time during the last 350 years, as revealed by a study of Patagonia, South America as reported in the journal Nature Geoscience. Glaciers everywhere in the world are retreating and could be losing ice more quickly than many experts realize. The resultant impact in due course could be in the following manner:


1) As the Glaciers are melting, sea-water level would increase and swallow some of the areas along the coastal regions of many countries.

2) The global temperature as a whole might increase disturbing the natural balance of hot and cold atmosphere.

3) The quantum of fresh water resources would get reduced in the long run.


There could be some unknown and unanticipated impact too disturbing the natural growth and sustenance of different species of flora and fauna in the immediate future. Let the global leaders sit together again and chalk out a strategy for checking and controlling pollution levels on account of mindless industrialisation. Sooner the better.

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