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Polar ice melts! More to it than manmade climate change

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The amount of ice that has been melting away in the North pole has been on the rise due to manmade climate change, although, that’s not the only reason.

This year, a record amount of ice melted. People from around the world find the rapidly melting ice very alarming. Some people thought that the melting of ice was spectacular.

I think calling this ‘spectacular’ would be undermining the event.

Researchers think there is more reasons behind the ice to melt than just simple man made climate change. That’s why this calls for yet another research.

Technically, climate change only causes a fraction of the ice to melt away. Huge changes in the ice shelfs must be due to a different reason. The cause of this kind of ice melt can be attributed to human beings.

As a result of pollution from auto emissions and plastic (human contribution), global warming is on the rise, which increases the ice melt. Thus, this recent environmental event in the North pole is considered to be the earth’s signal to us.

Contrary to the popular belief that melting of ice increases the level of water in the sea, scientists believe that the sea ice doesn’t really add to the volume.

Although, the melting ice could increase the ocean’s level by 7 meters.This is because the entire volume is already in the water. But, scientists fear that the melting ice could result in adding to the global warming.

The only way the ice melt could be prevented is by putting a curb on greenhouse gases as well as emissions. Also, a huge amount of political attention has been given to the this issue. The final goal is to come up with better ways to prevent the climate change.

This will, in turn, prevent the category 4 and 5 hurricanes from occurring in future.


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Reuters

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