Ice in the Arctic
Summary: Over the past years the frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean has been starting to melt away very slowly. On September 16th there was an all time record low for the frozen cap.This is not a good thing at all and the NASA satellite shows that the sea ice extent has melted down to 1.32 million sq miles! But the NSIDS says wind overtime can change and compact the ice floes to help reduce the sea extent. During the winter the ice grows back but on a thin layer and in the summer it all gets melted away plus some ice that wasn't built up in the winter so it slowly shrinks overtime. The thickness of the ice is also declining which is going to make the ice melt even faster. Also there was a cyclone recently which took off a chunk of the ice and contributed to the all time record low on September 16th.Picture: The picture just shows an older picture of the arctic on the top and a more recent one on the bottom. It shows that the ice has melted away over the years.
Opinion/Reflection: I was surprised that the arctic has been shrinking this much. Also that there was an all time record low just a couple days ago. This is definitely effecting many species of animals that live there which probably is messing up the food webs too. Soon those animals wont have a home and will become extinct species. I have heard about this in the news and I have heard about global warming too in my personal life and i think people should be more concerned about this issue.
Questions: 1) Do you think there is anything that we can do to help stop this?
2) What do you think will happen after the all ice melts away?
3)Do you think we will ever find a way to stop the ice shrinkage later in the future?
My opinion on this article is that this is wrong. I don't think it should be melting this much. I think we need to stop this otherwise there will be a lot of flooding and that could damage cities and residential areas around the world. Also all the animals that live there will become extinct. And that could harm the food chain because if you remove one animal it could affect the rest.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good article to expand on this topic - http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0927/1224324469890.html
ReplyDeleteAnswers to questions:
ReplyDelete1.Yes, I believe that by contributing less fossil fuels and polution to the world we can maybe slow down the melting.
2.I believe alot of species will go extinct.
3.I'm sure it's possible with the increase in technology but there's not much I can predict as of right now.