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Issue
Melting Glaciers and Ice Caps
Although it is normal for large ice formations to melt in the summer, temperatures are low enough to make up for the summer melt. However due to global warming, the summer temperature is so hot that the winter freeze isn’t enough to compensate for it (1).
What exactly is being affected?
Due to the rising global surface and water temperatures, glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets have been melting at an accelerating speed (4).
What is happening to them?
It has recently been proven that Antarctica is most definitely going to melt, and the process is unstoppable (1). The rate at which its ice is melting has increased by 77% since 1973 (2). The Greenland ice sheet has been experiencing record melting rates, which seriously affects the sea level because it is the second largest ice body in the world. Other glaciers include smaller ones in the Alps, Andes, Himalayas, and Alaska (1).
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