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GREENLAND!!!!

Greenland is one of the countries that are getting affected the most by all of the global warming and climate change here are some reasons why.

climate change facts:

glaciers are melting on 6 continents

if it continues all glaciers could be gone by 2030

arctic sea ice has shrunk by 250 milion acres

Greenlands facts:

Greenlands ice sheet is bout 8% of the earth's grounded ice

more than 11 cubic mile of ice is melting along Greenland's coast yearly which is 7%of the annual sea level rise

it absorbs up to 4 times as much energy from the sun as unmelted snow which reflects the sun

Greenland is the world's largest island

The ice cap is 3000 meters thick

The snow falls on the ice cap and increases it by 5cm each year

affecting the people:
greenland is covered by 630,000 cubic miles of ice if this ice melts then the sea levels will rise dramatically and areas of lood will flood and go under water which is going to affect thousands of people as their homes are going to be lost. if Greendland's ice all melted everyone living their would have to find somewhere else to live and it would also raise the sea levels heaps also all the ice is breaking of causing loss of land. Such a rise would swamp low-lying Pacific islands and warming could trigger more hurricanes, droughts, spread deserts and drive thousands of species to extinction, which would also up set the food chain

natural resources:
coal, iron ore, lead, zinc, molybdenum, diamonds, gold, platinum, niobium, tantalite, uranium, fish, seals, whales, hydropower, possible oil and gas.

Greenland is located between the arctic and atlantic oceans greenland before climate changes

The total area of Greenland is 2,166,066 km squared and the ice sheet covers 1,755,637 km squared that is enough to raise the sea levels by 23 feet.

good things: this is the first time in Greenland that they are able to raise cattle and harvest crops.

i quote: The world's target for stopping global warming should be based on the point at which the melting of the great Greenland ice sheet becomes irreversible, says the Government's chief scientific adviser, Sir David King. He also says The international community must limit the atmospheric level of the principal greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (C02), to below the point where the Greenland ice begins to melt in a runaway manner, Sir David said. This figure is not yet precisely known - but much scientific effort is being expended on finding it out.

helping the problem: i think we should pin point a area that needs to be sorted out the most or the one that is doing the most damage and try and just complete that one instead of trying to fix hundreds of problems

A miniature Christmas tree bulb dissipates about 1 watt, mostly as heat. Human-made greenhouse gases provide almost 2 watts of heat per square meter of Earth's surface. So the addition of such gases to the atmosphere through fossil fuel burning and other activities is equivalent to placing "two tiny bulbs over every square meter of Earth's surface, burning night and day," says James E. Hansen.

Study of climate history has shown that small forces maintained long enough, can cause climate change. Unless big reductions are made in fossil fuel use, the atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is now at 370 ppm is expected to reach 560–1,000 ppm by the end of this century. This will raise heating due to greenhouse gases to at least and average global temperatures a further 1.4–5.8 °degrees.

scientist knew that the ice was melting but not this fast it is disapearing 3 times faster than what the scientists predicted.