Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Global Warming Photo Essay

A diagram of the greenhouse effect, the scientific cause for global climate change. It was posted on the Union for Concerned Scientists website.

Greenland's ice sheet, the earth's second-largest reservoir of fresh water, is melting three times as fast, as it has in the past five years. These shocking discovery was published in Journal Science, and reported by the Boston Globe.

A photo of the polar ice caps melting. It is both beautiful and ominous. Credit

Glaciers in between Yakutat bay and the Stikine Icefield, which stretches into northwestern British Columbia, have been melting at twice the rate scientists originally estimated. Credit

This is Male the capital city of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. With maximum elevation of only eight feet above sea-level, no other nation has taken potential climate change as seriously. In order, to help defend against rising water levels, a sea wall has been built to surround Male.

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