Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Greenland


Effects of climate change in Greenland

The ice cap in Greenland now is melting because of the climate change.Global warming is happening now, bringing changes to our climate and our world. Yet the climate is changing at an accelerated pace in the region of Greenland.

Greenland

by a massive ice sheet that is roughly the size of Mexico 700,000 square miles and it's contains nearly a tenth of the feeling the globe's Greenland is the world's largest island and it's the largest dependent territory by area in the world. It also contains the world largest national pack. It's almost entirely covered world fresh water supply. The temperatures in Greenland have increased by over 4 degrees and the area of Greenland ice sheet that melts each summer has increased by 16 percent from 1979 to 2002. During the record-setting melting in 2005 satellites recorded melting in areas that have never melted in the past 27 years.This surface melting further threatens the ice sheet by causing lakes to form on the ice sheets surface.The Greenland ice sheet now dumps nearly three times as much ice into the sea as it did 10 years ago enough every few days during the melting season to supply New York City with fresh water.The amount of ice flowing into the sea from Greenland ice cap now appears to be out pacing the buildup of snow further inland and global warming is already having negative impacts.Greenland is sheet is melting faster and faster each days. Few parts of the world is climate change and the Arctic is fastest warming. At a science station in the ice covered interior of Greenland average winter temperatures rose nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit from 1991 to 2003. A rapid meltdown and fast-sliding glaciers in Greenland could raise sea levels around the world and flood coastal cities and farmland.

Effects Of People

some of the hunters have drowned after falling through thinned ice, which were due to the increase in temperature from global warming melting the thinned ice. Greenland is closely situated to the Antarctica. This predisposes Greenland to a greater impact if the ice from antarctic were to melt and worse even Greenland may one day soon enough be covered by water and no more land will be left. The earth will be rising of water because of the ice cap meting and everyone will be died.

Why did the ice melt ?

Because of the Global warming the climate change witch heat up the atmosphere the sun radiation gone down and some of them can't reflected back because of the gashouse that make the atmosphere hot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming

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