So far, global warming has been known to melt ice in the polar north. Actually, Global warming also make a similar result to the layer of ice in the Antarctic. If this continues, we might soon lose the land where we stand today.
Results of recent studies published in Nature Geoscience mention that ice sheets in East Antarctica, once seen mostly unaffected by global warming, has lost billions of tons of ice since 2006 and could push sea water level rise in the future.
The study also shows that the smaller but less stable ice in the West Antarctic mass loss in a very large number. Global warming is also feared could spark rapid division of West Antarctica, melt the ice that will pushing the global ocean surface as high as five meters.
In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel for the UN climate change (IPCC) predicts sea levels will rise 18 to 59 centimeters in 2100 at the latest, by not entering the impact of ice began to crack in Greenland and Antarctica. Greater impact would have happened if they were taken into account.
Many scientists say that even if the emission of CO2, one of the causes of global warming is limited, the surface of the ocean water may be increased by about three feet. This is enough to make some small island countries and could also damage the habitable and fertile delta of the habitat of hundreds of millions of living beings.
More than 190 countries will gather in Copenhagen, in December, to design a climate change agreement to curb greenhouse gases and help poor countries cope with the consequences
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