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Small thawing glaciers throw big threats this century: Experts

Small thawing glaciers throw big threats this century

If you are fixing your eyes on the large Greenland and Antarctica glaciers, counting their devastating effects that may soon let open on the seas, rising levels and flooding banks, displacing millions of humans, giving birth to the same number of refugees in turn – then for now, stop worrying.

The threat of mass disruption on the planet has now been discovered to be coming from the small thawing glaciers more, compared to the huge ones sitting high at the poles.

This century, in particular, is threatened by the small thawing glaciers, researchers warn.

You must be pondering on how can the only 1 percent of the water tied up on these glaciers create havoc down on the seas and lands!

True, the big ice sheets contain the vast majority of the world’s ice, but, one percent could account for 60 percent of an anticipated rise in the world’s sea level by the year 2100.

In a telephone interview, the lead author of the study, Mark Meier of the University of Colorado-Boulder said,

If we had almost a foot (of sea-level rise) just due to the small glaciers, add that to the amount due to the ice sheets, which could be appreciable by 2100, and add to that the ocean warming which will cause it to expand in volume, then we get a rise that we can’t ignore.

So, small thaws can bring big changes in the planet’s ecosystem and the lives of humans. Better choose out a ‘green’ lifestyle to lessen your global warming-triggering carbon footprints, which in turn could “still” be able to help you from such gruesome threats from nature.

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