Ice Caps Melting at Alarming Rate

Over the span of 2019 so far, the polar ice caps have dwindled in size at an alarming rate to humankind. The caps have just undergone their 2nd most destructive summer in recorded history and the rate at which they are melting is dangerous. If nothing is changed soon, the Earth will run out of its Carbon Allowance, which will result in more damage and melting to the ice caps, but near irreversible by that point. The caps will melt, sea levels will rise, and the Earth will undergo extremely dangerous and abnormal shifts in the polar jet streams.

I believe that what is happening with the climate and polar ice caps is extremely alarming to anyone who can grasp the concept of the Earth dying. The polar ice caps play huge roles in the maintenance of our weather patterns as well as our global temperatures, and if nothing is done to prevent their destruction, then the Earth could be looking at some major issues in the very near future.

https://earthsky.org/earth/climate-change-warming-arctic-means-for-the-rest-of-us

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  1. AnonymousOctober 15, 2019 at 6:32 AM

    Although the ice caps melt more in the summer, the rate of ice cap growth in the winter is exponentially higher than the rate decades ago. So, while ice is melting during the summer, the growth in the winter negates most of the effect and therefore removing much of the urgency of the situation.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 15, 2019 at 6:42 AM

    As Aaron said, the icecaps regenerate over the winter so the impact of the ice caps melting is unexistant. I love how 30 years ago scientists predicted that the ice caps would be unexistant by now and yet here we are.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 17, 2019 at 7:22 AM

    In order to decrease the amount ice caps melting we need to change the way we use our fossil fuels. Without the ice caps the earth will continuously get warmer and the earths water levels will increase. Even though the ice caps are melting in the summer the are recovering small amounts during the winters. in order to reverse the melting we need to figure out a solution to decrease global warming.

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