Arctic is starting to melt

A General Article Related To Global Warming:

On 2nd of February, 2007, the United Nations scientific panel studying climate change declared that the evidence of a warming trend is "unequivocal," and that human activity has "very likely" been the driving force in that change over the last 50 years. The last report by the group, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in 2001, had found that humanity had "likely" played a role.

Arctic is starting to melt, due to the increasing temperature of the earth. Scientists are unnerved by the polar ice melt, its implications and their ability to predict it. The melting of Arctic is putting the polar bears and other inhabitants of Arctic into danger. The animals now face another threat: a changing climate.

Several countries and companies had tried to improve the situation. The Ontario provincial government of Canada had said that it would conserve a huge swath of its forest to protect polar bears and other animals and help fight climate change on the 15th of July 2008. On the same day as well, Exelon, the electric company based in Chicago, promised to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by an amount larger than its total emissions in 2008.

The sad thing is that while some countries no longer deny the science of climate change, they still insist on putting the concerns of industry over the needs of the planet. If this continues, the planet might continue to experience global warming, and a lot of innocent lives, especially the animals, might be in danger.

We might not be able to stop global warming completely, but at least we can try our best to reduce it. Just remember that while we are reducing global warming, we are increasing our own future comfortableness.

Can you imagine how will the future be like if global warming continues? You can’t, because there will be no future if it continues.


Source from: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html

Article By: Jessyca, Rainbow Society Secretary