"The effects of greenhouse warming are starting to rear their ugly head," said Mark Serreze, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
This will cause changes to the Earth's ecosystem and even economics. Some countries will win in these changes, and some will suffer. "There are winners and losers in this game but on balance I think it's negative," Serreze said. For Russia, "the shipping routes are going to open, they will see economic benefit from that," he continued. "For Canada, this could be an economic boom."
A U.S. Geological Survey says that for the wildlife and fish it will be very difficult to adapt the new weather. For example polar bears can't survive ice melt.
"It will have all these other geostrategic issues," Mead Treadwell, chair of the US Arctic Research Commission in Anchorage, Alaska, said in an interview.
Melting ice is not the only change in the ecosystem. Planting season also will result in a disorder, which will cause major difficulties to agriculture. Skiing business will suffer as well, US Alaskan border will have oil spills. Even the national defense will need changes. In other words, ice melting will have a great environmental and strategic impact on us.
So what should we do to stop global warming and to protect the Earth from this tragic destiny? Scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions limitation will slow down ice melting.
By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ
Posted December 12th, 2006 by ruzik_tuzik
