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current problems in antarctica
Title: current problems in antarctica
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 630 | Pages: 2.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
current problems in antarctica
CURRENT EVENTS of antarctica
Global Warming
If all the ice in Antarctica melted, it would raise the level of the world's oceans by over 200 feet (60 meters). The possibility of this happening in the near term is not seriously considered by scientists, for the Antarctic icecap is currently believed to be in equilibrium. However, meteorologists studying the ramifications of global warming and the greenhouse effect expect there to be a decrease in sea levels in the …showed first 75 words of 630 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 630 total…miles -- an area roughly the size of Europe. With ozone levels 10% lower in August 1995 than the previous record low (August 1994), pessimism is difficult to avoid.
Though Antarctica seems at the end of the world, its frozen wastes a distant aside in the lives of most of us, it is not unlike the canary in the coal mine -- a gauge of warning, an alarm sounding to wake the world to the danger we are all in.
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