America's role in the world

In Antarctica there is a serious issue that needs to be addressed immediately. There is about fifty five percent of mass lost from the ice shelves in Antarctica. The ice is melting at the ice-ocean boundary. With this happening it affects wildlife, and can cause serious damage with flooding. The ice shelves act like a plug in a bottle, without the glaciers in the ocean, when they melts it will allow the water to accelerate into the sea, and the water levels will rise leaving serious problems such as warming too much which is causing human health. Jane J. Lee, Reporter from National Geographic states that, “"Continued warming of the ocean will slowly increase ice shelf thinning," the study authors wrote. And that could affect the ability of ice shelves to regulate the flow of glaciers into the ocean.” (Lee). With the ocean constantly getting warmer because of global warming, and the glaciers melting from the bottom up, the world is going to be affected, and not in a good way. Another statement from the Union Of Concerned Scientists explains that, “ Everyone of the past 37 years has been warmer than the 20th Century average. The 12 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998. The hottest year ever recorded for the contiguous United States occurred in 2012.” (Global). In 2012 when the united states occurred to be the hottest, is when we were affected the most with the glaciers melting. If this continues to increase throughout time soon there will be no ice shelves, and much wildlife will go extinct.