Week Post Four: Ice Caps Are Melting

The melting of the polar ice caps not only endangers the polar bears, but create four other problems for the Earth. First, it will make the sea levels rise because there are 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in these ice caps and researchers say that if everything melts, then the sea levels can rise up to 230 feet! Second, since the ice caps are made out of fresh water, the fresh water will mix in with the salt water from the ocean. This will alter ocean currents, which control temperatures. This change will make north-east America and Western Europe a little cooler. Third, the altering of the sea levels, the melting of the ice caps and the desalination of the ocean are all forcing animals to adapt, those who are able to adapt will survive, and those who aren’t able to, won’t. Fourth, because there are less and less polar ice caps, there is less and less white. White makes the sunlight reflect into space, and because there is less, that means that less sunlight is being reflected and more is being absorbed by the dark ocean.

All I really have to say is that we really should just change at least one of our ways to contribute to saving ourselves from global warming. Would one rather end up drowning?