It's me, Saanvi. We all know that the new year, 2016 has started. It is time to do something new. While making your resolutions and actually preparing to take action on them, give a thought to our environmental problems. Think about what will happen with global warming and pollution and deforestation if you don't help. No life will be left on Earth. Is that what you want?
Probably not, which is why I ask of you to help. This year, the only thing I reinforce is to go green. Help save our planet! It's like when they say, "It's now or never." and it's always true. You can save it now, or wait for the destruction and then cry about it.
Below is a piece of writing I have written about rising sea levels which is a cause of global warming. Global warming is the major problem, and then other problems like rising sea levels are some of the causes.
Read it below:
Apart from
global warming which is a worldwide problem, have you ever thought about rising
sea levels? It’s a problem, and we’ve got to do something about it!
As water gets warmer, it takes up more space.
Each water droplet only expands a little bit, but when you have multiple
droplets and you have multiplied the expansion over the depth of the ocean, all
the water is added up, and it causes sea levels to rise. Large ice formations
like glaciers and ice sheets add more water to the ocean, which is another
reason sea levels are rising. But these are not the only causes of rising sea
levels.
Global warming is a big problem, and
rising sea levels has a connection with this problem. Because of loss on ice
and expansion of seawater-which has primarily been caused by global warming-
are the main causes of sea levels. The Union of concerned scientists’ website
states, “Tide gauges around the world have recorded the long-term rise in sea
level since 1870.”
In addition, human activities such
as burning coal and oil and cutting down trees in tropical
forests-deforestation, is proven to be rising the temperature of our planet.
Those rising temperatures are warm ocean waters, which get larger as the
temperature increases.
Along with ice loss on land,
groundwater withdrawal contributes about 10 percent to rising sea levels, which
was observed in 1972- 2008. Even today, scientists believe that part of the
reason that sea levels are rising is because of groundwater withdrawal.
Over the next centuries, scientists predict
that even if global
warming were to drop to zero by next year, scientists predict another 1.2 to
2.6 feet of global sea level rise by another five to six years as oceans and
land ice adjust to the changes we have already made to the atmosphere of the
Earth.
Loss of
ice sheets will affect mostly countries like Greenland and Antarctica, so we
must do something to prevent sea levels rising even more. It will put our coasts at risk- and then all
the seas will have warmer temperatures and affect our animals. The animals
might even get extinct because they can’t make their journey and in the winter,
they will not get food for their young. It will mess up life and oceans. It
will also affect people who live near the ocean. We have to save our planet!
There must be something we can do to help!
So what can we do?
To limit sea level rise, we need to work towards deep
reductions in the global warming emissions; we must fulfil our duties and help
the ocean the way it helps us. If we maintain islands and wetlands, it can help
us defend coastlines. Additionally, it would be helpful if we took measures
like flood- proofing structures so we could try to work together. We could also
build walls which will ensure that there is no flooding or damage, but will not
guarantee long protection. You can also donate to help scientists conduct more
research, but in my opinion, the best way to help is to work together to reduce
global warming emissions. Help our planet!
My References
http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impacts/signs/sea-level.h
© Copyright 2016. Rising Sea Levels By Saanvi. No part of this production may be reproduced or copied and pasted by any means. It may only be read, not claimed as your own.
To find out more go to my global warming project that my friend helped me to make by using the link below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KDpn3xPdQQZdc47TFHUPMFcbO3l27wcDWa3Q6d9YIIw/pub
(Copy and paste this link into your address bar and then view the project or if the link is blue, click)
Remember to go green everyone!
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