NASA has recently released information regarding an ice shelf in Antartica: Larsen B. The information presented predicts the ice mass will completely melt and fall away as soon as the year 2020. Scientific evidence shows that the ice shelf has existed for over 10,000 years. In 2002, Larsen B went through significant dwindling when it had lost close to half of its size compared to 1995. Now the ice mass is around 600 square miles, and studies still exhibit increasing global temperatures. The NASA study believes that losing this ice shelf could put water levels at risk.
The Earth's climate and condition directly effects the people who live in it. American history has many occurrences when the climate had a prevalent effects on the people. During the American Revolution, George Washington's troops suffered a harsh winter at Valley Forge. The Great Depression was hunted by the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains. These are only a few examples, and America will continue to have history defined by human-enviornment interaction.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/16/us/antarctica-larsen-b-ice-shelf-to-disappear/index.html
No matter how much evidence, people will still deny the effects of global warming happening right before their eyes. This would be a devastating loss and would severely effect environmental conditions, both bad things. Good article.
ReplyDeleteHow awful is it that these human-environment interactions that we are currently so aware of are also the ones that seem most truly devastating, as well as unchangeable. The permanence of these kind of predictions is genuinely hopeless due to our societal dependence and increasingly demanding neediness that continue the expansion of various causes to global warming. Sad yet true: we cannot escape it.
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Humans have really done a poor job of taking care of the environment that was handed down to us. I really hope that this could be a wake up call to try to improve things and that it really isn't all downhill from here.
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