The Ice Melting in Greenland

I've chosen this topic because this task has became very actual recently. Newspapers are full of global warming problems these days and ice melting in Greenland is one of them.

Firstly, the scientists from NASA claim that nearly the entire of the surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet had turned to slush. They say such melts might occur every 150 years. If such a rapid melting become common and it could lead to already rising sea levels.

Melt maps from satellites show that in summer, about 40 percent of the ice sheet's surface had melted. Later, it had jumped to 97 percent.

Mostly, the melt even reached Greenland's coldest and highest place, which is about 3 kilometers above sea level.

Secondly, scientists estimate that if all of Greenland's ice sheet were to melt, the global sea level would rise by 7 meters.

The fact is that such a rapid melting will add a great deal of water to the oceans and help to raise sea level and countries like the Netherlands may be affected as that half of the country could disappear under the sea level. What is more, the animals that live in the cold like polar bears, penguins, and arctic foxes,will become endangered.

To sum it up, ice melting in Greenland is nowdays a real problem to face. The question is what we can do with it. Maybe not much but sometimes even a small thing like using more economical power sources can help. It's never to late to do something for our Mother Earth.

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