Student Name: Jinfan, Qiang
Student Number: 1002688834
Course Code: ERS0101
On October 29th, 2012, Hurricane Sandy suddenly changed its direction towards the northeast coast of the USA and caused 43 dead, more than one hundred homes were burned in that night. This disaster warned people to think more about the effects of rising sea in our daily and future life. It has become to common sense that the major reason of rising sea level is our fossil-fuel-driven civilization. Burning causes carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, the overall temperature in the earth's atmosphere increased gradually. We call it "global warming". Due to the higher temperature, the ice mountain on land started melting. Climate scientists estimated that Greenland and Antarctic combined have lost on average about 50 cubic miles of ice each year since 1992. On the other hand, a physical fact of thermal expansion, water grows in volume as it warms. …show more content…
Safety is in the first place to be concerned. Living place will also face a huge change. As the sea level raises continuously, the people live in coastal cities are in the potential risk of being flooded. And flood also causes the troubles of freshwater use and electrical transformers. Freshwater and electricity are the two big needs in everyone's life. If these two needs will not be satisfied, people will start moving to other places. Additionally, coastal cities usually have a stronger economic power because of the convenient and developed transportation. Those coastal cities held 9% of global GDP. If those cities were ruined by flooding or covered by a sea, the consequences could be
Student Number: 1002688834
Course Code: ERS0101
On October 29th, 2012, Hurricane Sandy suddenly changed its direction towards the northeast coast of the USA and caused 43 dead, more than one hundred homes were burned in that night. This disaster warned people to think more about the effects of rising sea in our daily and future life. It has become to common sense that the major reason of rising sea level is our fossil-fuel-driven civilization. Burning causes carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, the overall temperature in the earth's atmosphere increased gradually. We call it "global warming". Due to the higher temperature, the ice mountain on land started melting. Climate scientists estimated that Greenland and Antarctic combined have lost on average about 50 cubic miles of ice each year since 1992. On the other hand, a physical fact of thermal expansion, water grows in volume as it warms. …show more content…
Safety is in the first place to be concerned. Living place will also face a huge change. As the sea level raises continuously, the people live in coastal cities are in the potential risk of being flooded. And flood also causes the troubles of freshwater use and electrical transformers. Freshwater and electricity are the two big needs in everyone's life. If these two needs will not be satisfied, people will start moving to other places. Additionally, coastal cities usually have a stronger economic power because of the convenient and developed transportation. Those coastal cities held 9% of global GDP. If those cities were ruined by flooding or covered by a sea, the consequences could be