Did you know that glaciers are melting at a rate of 9% every decade?
By emisle
@emisle (3822)
Ireland
December 24, 2006 7:57pm CST
Needless to say, this is disastrous. Ireland alone will have many more inland lakes, not to mention much of the coast will disappear.
And of course there will be way more flooding, and i don't know what will happen to the polar bears, seals and penguins.
And it's too late to stop it, even it all pollution was to stop tomorrow, it would still take hundreds of years for the global warming carbons to disappear from the atmosphere....and we've no one to blame but ourselves.
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@kids91911 (4363)
• United States
25 Dec 06
No I did not know that but then again I learn something new every minute on mylot.
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@aimee750 (1116)
• United States
2 Jan 07
I was just watching something on the news about large chunks breaking off the glaciers and how fast they are melting. And then there was something on the news the other day about polar bears becoming an endangered species. What a shame that we are making such a negative impact on the environment.
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
1 Jan 07
Well, I didn't know that. Good luck conviencing people to change the way the handle the environment.
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
1 Jan 07
I'm sure there are developers in Ireland who are happy about this--think of all the new lakeside golf courses they can build alongside all the new lakes!
If I owned any oceanfront property I think I would sell it, before it becomes under-ocean property!
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@nobodyspecial (1011)
• United States
2 Jan 07
The earth has gone through many cycles over it's long life...and will no doubt go through many more.
Prior to the last Ice Age the earth was for the most part tropical, as evidenced by fossils, land mass today was ocean bottom thousands of years ago.
As always the life forms on this planet will adjust, evolve or work their environment to suit their needs.
Science allows us to think it (we) know a lot, but science also acknowleges it knows not nearly enough.
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@BittyBiddy (2903)
• Ireland
2 Jan 07
I know. It's scarey. All we can do is try to slow it down a little by doing our bit with the environment.
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@Shujakhan (192)
• Pakistan
25 Dec 06
yes.ratio is so much that all glaciers in our country pakistan will melt in next 20 years.scientists are saying that we should have to save the water but there are nodams in which we can sve it in other countries i dont know waht scientists say about their own countries.
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@angadp (199)
• India
25 Dec 06
That's amazing emisle. The Tsunami that hit our country(india)was also due to global warming(as described by the scientists). The great Himalayas where every year there is less and less snowfall clearly indicates the gravity of the situation.
