All of us are aware of the dangers that global warming seems to pose for the environment. However, only a few know that global warming doesn’t simply mean warming of the globe, but a total environment collapse, not only on the earth, but also inside it. Global climate change is going to wreak devastation in the form of flood fury, incessant rains, higher temperatures, melting ice and retreating glaciers, submerging lands and more volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis that we cannot even expect.
Global warming has a great role to play in impacting the geology of the earth. Just imagine what will happen when the ice sheets covering the entire continents of Greenland and Antarctica thaw? What about glacier retreat? The melt water of the glaciers and ice will flow into the seas and oceans nearby engulfing the surroundings. The force and amount with which the water would flow into the already fragile water bodies will determine the extent of diastrophic changes in the interior of the earth. How? The sudden thrust of a huge volume of water in the oceans in the form of melt water of glaciers and ice sheets will upset the geological movements, increase the density on the oceanic crust thereby forcing it to bend. Once the balance in the interior of the earth is disturbed, the hot spewing magma inside will be forced to burst out as lava in the form of volcanoes, which are otherwise the result of collision of continental and oceanic plate. And the same can happen on the earth as well. Once the interior of the earth is disturbed, the repercussions will be in the form of earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.
It is not for nothing that global warming is termed as doom for the earth, environment and those inhabiting it. Once initiated, it will go out of our reach to prevent the impending catastrophe that will throw life out of gear. Today, it is in our hands to stop warming the atmosphere, the way we are. Else, no one can save earth from becoming a dead planet.
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Via: Guardian