"The Climate of Man - 1"
Annals of Science, published in the New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert
In the 1990, researchers began to notice something unusual happening to all the glaciers in the world, melting at extremely high rates and shrinking rapidly. It was actually the beginning of global warming. The ice is now melting earlier in the spring and forming later in the fall, which was the signal that some tribes in Alaska had to move to the mainland, and couldn’t stay on the ice. The first study about global warming, in 1979, showed that greenhouse emissions could have severe affects on the environment. Unfortunately, no one paid attention to the study when it was published, and we now suffer the consequences. The world is now warmer than it has ever been, and the glaciers in Greenland and Iceland have melted 1100 feet in the last decade. It is also predicted that all the glaciers and ice will have melted by 2080 if we keep producing this much carbon dioxide and methane. In fact, humans have been the major factor to all of this, due to the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide released by humans in the last 30 years.
Annals of Science, published in the New Yorker by Elizabeth Kolbert
In the 1990, researchers began to notice something unusual happening to all the glaciers in the world, melting at extremely high rates and shrinking rapidly. It was actually the beginning of global warming. The ice is now melting earlier in the spring and forming later in the fall, which was the signal that some tribes in Alaska had to move to the mainland, and couldn’t stay on the ice. The first study about global warming, in 1979, showed that greenhouse emissions could have severe affects on the environment. Unfortunately, no one paid attention to the study when it was published, and we now suffer the consequences. The world is now warmer than it has ever been, and the glaciers in Greenland and Iceland have melted 1100 feet in the last decade. It is also predicted that all the glaciers and ice will have melted by 2080 if we keep producing this much carbon dioxide and methane. In fact, humans have been the major factor to all of this, due to the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide released by humans in the last 30 years.
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