A article by science daily explains how a 2 degree change in the climate in Antarctica would result in at least one free ice chain summer but if there is a a limited warning of 2 degree they would limit the possibility of a ice free summer by 30% 2100. The scientist explain how they never knew how even a .5 degree change can effect so much in the environment. The ice shelves are melting no getting around it but for the possibility that there could be ice free summer is not good since so many organism live on them. This change could change the world forever.
Vegetation Changes At Rate Similar to Post Ice Age Period
Noah Frack Scientist have discovered through the research of fossilized pollen samples that todays plant are changing at a rapid rate. This rate rivals that of plants at the end of the ice age retaking land the had previously been uninhabitable due to icy conditions. They adapted to the increase of temperatures by 10 degrees as the ice retreated to the poles. the changes of vegetation today have been correlated to the damages caused insensitive agriculture and creation of the earliest cities and civilizations. This research brings my mind to the true scale of the earth and simply how little an individual is compared to the lifetime of the earth. When thinking about it, if plant are just now seeming to show signs of evolution from the creation of the earliest cities and begging of mankind's domination of the earth, it brings the realization of how slow this process is. It puts into perspective the true scale of the cosmic universe. Simultaneously give me fear of what is to co...
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