Alarming Rise in Sea Level- Global Warming

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Global warming is catalyzing the melting of Antarctic ice causing alarming rise in sea level 

The human civilization has immensely developed since last few decades in the field of advance science and technology but their progress is occurring at the cost of compromising with our own mother nature. Our progress in the field of advance science and technology has lead to the imbalance of our ecosystem as well as the Earth's atmosphere. Vehicles and industries itself emits huge amount of smoke which mainly contains carbon dioxide, the major cause for global warming. Apart from this our environment is polluted from several other sources that cause the total amount of carbon dioxide to rise in our atmosphere. Other than carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and CFC also contribute to the rise of the average global temperature and this phenomenon is known as Global Warming. The release of these gases from different sources have drastically increased which in turn are trapping the incoming solar radiation and not allowing to escape the outgoing terrestrial radiation thus causing rise in our average global temperature. Scientists and environmentalists have been repeatedly warning about the consequences of global warming by different means but all are in vain as we are too busy with our progress in the field of advance science and technology. Our action is hurting our very own mother Earth and now we will have to face the consequences.

A recent shocking report from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory over a broad period of study from 1992 to 2017 has revealed that the increasing melting of Antarctic ice has lead to global rise in sea level by 0.3 inches. Before the year 2012 the antarctic ice was melting at the steady rate of nearly 83.8 billion tons per year whose contribution to the rise in sea level was nearly 0.008 inches per year. But after 2012 the loss of polar ice has abruptly increased to nearly 241.4 billion tons i.e. almost triple than it was before 2012. This drastic rise is contributing to nearly 0.02 inches rise in sea level per year. The report further shows that the ice caps of West Antarctica are badly affected with a drastic increase in their melting and the ice caps of North Antarctica  have also severely increased, whereas only the ice caps of East Antarctica are relatively stable than others in the melting process. Antarctica lying in the south pole contains very massive amount of ice frozen in its landmass and melting of this ice can leads to an alarming rise in sea level of nearly 190 feet. According to NASA, the contribution of Antarctica ice to global rise in sea levels is nearly 7.5 times than any other source of frozen landmass in our world combined. Thus it is really alarming that in our race for achieving advancement in science and technology, we are threatening our very own existence in future. The alarming rise in global warming gases over last 25 years have accelerated the melting of Antarctica ice caps. Moreover the habitat, ecosystem and wildlife of Antarctica are adversely affected by the gradual increase in the melting of these polar ice caps. Now it is high time for human civilization to carefully think about controlling the emission of global warming gases in our atmosphere in order to prevent the melting of polar ice caps which is causing rise in sea level. It is not that our civilization should stop progressing in the field of advance science and technology but side by side they should take care of their very own home Earth. By the use of advance technology combined with rigorous effort and hard thinking we can find out certain technologies or solutions that will help us to control the emission of harmful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere keeping the natural balance. If NASA's present alarming report has not strike us hard in our mind then unfortunately we are threatening the very own existence of us and more possibility for our future generations.