Polar ice cap

many believe that humans have nothing to do with this epidemic, many statistics, studies, and facts support the evidence that our species is the main cause. Our wastefulness and inefficiency has led to major spikes in greenhouse gas emissions over the past century. The global warming epidemic is leading to polar ice caps melting, and in the next couple of centuries, may cause an overall flooding of the earth as well as the extinction of such species as the polar bear. This flooding can lead to many larger problems, such as the contamination of our, and many other species’, drinking water. This cause was, in all, due to the carelessness of the human species. To…

Most generation's desire to leave a honorable legacy for future children. In the case of humanity, not only does a generation leave behind its culture, but also the state of the Earth. Over the past 50 years, there has been a significant increase in the consumption of natural resources. In addition to the depletion of fossil fuels and natural gas, this increased consumption is damaging the planet; the increased carbon dioxide levels has caused the destruction of the ozone layer, and its level of…

Greenhouse gasses are emitted from a variety of different sources around the world, and remain trapped in our atmosphere causing the heat from the sun not to reflect back, resulting in the Earth becoming warmer. The change in climate also has had a substantial impact on several different aspects of life. The melting of the polar ice caps is a notable example of how even geography can change as the large amount of ice melts and moves the shoreline farther inland. The loss of the ice caps would…

Over the past fifty years the earth has gone through numerous climate changes. Such changes include permafrost melting, receding glaciers and the disappearance of sea ice. Due to these changes the earths landscaped has changed. In the sea ice animation from Cryosphere Today, we can see how the sea ice has changed dramatically growing in the winter months and then dissipating during the summer months. Most of these changes occur not only from the climate change itself but rather from human…

contribute to sustainable prosperity for all people? I believe that we humans, and our actions, have created our once healthy planet into a dying one, and with our resources, and weather dying off, we won’t be able to sustain prosperity for anyone at all. In my opinion, sustainable prosperity for all people means that everyone has to meet their basic human needs with the confident knowledge of knowing that we won’t have to deny the future generation to have the ability to live in a sense where…

The Poles of Mars are covered in the necessary gasses, in solid form, to create a runaway greenhouse effect that will warm the climate dramatically and build up enough pressure to support human life. Both ice caps have a top layer of solid CO2 (dry ice) that go through phase shifts during the changing seasons which already contribute to the greenhouse effect (“Martian Polar Ice Caps”). Both the southern and northern poles consist of about 1.6 million cubic km of ice, making up a total of a…

unity. Light and dark holding hands signifies the unity of two complete opposites, just as Ai needs for the two kingdoms of Winter to join together and agree to join the alliance and complete his mission. The title of the book is what it is to call attention to this particular part in the novel and to hint even more so the intent of the story. The plant that Ai is on is called Gethen, but to the people of Earth it is called Winter. Winter is currently going through an ice age, and therefore…

for future climate scenarios in an attempt to possibly help the future generations. Climate change has many affects on the diversity of living organisms and the population. For example, the polar ice caps melting has a major affect polar bears. Global warming has been a major factor contributing to the decrease in polar bear population because the ice caps melt causing ice platform loss. This has affected seals, a main source of food for polar bears, so decrease in seals is a decrease in polar…

water. Loggerhead sea turtles generally nest at time periods of 2 to 4 years. They usually lay around 3 to 6 nests, which are spaced around 12 to 14 days apart. Logger sea turtles lay, on average between 100 to 126 eggs per nest. (Sea turtle conservancy) These carnivores typically feed on fish, crustaceans, and other marine wildlife. Not only are these sea turtles endangered because of evolving climate changes, but loggerhead sea turtles also play an important role within the food web.…

Climate change will hurt people, animals and the environment. Firstly, things like animal ranching, factories, and burning of fossil fuels cause the greenhouse gas. The United states and China combined are responsible for about 40% of the carbon emissions. (doc 10) Over time this will cause the environment to heat up which will melt the polar ice caps. When the ice caps melt animals that are native to the ice will die. Polar bears, penguins and other animals will have no other place to live…