“We have lost this glacier melting and sea level rise game,” says Professor Petteri Taalas.
The British Antarctic Survey has released new maps depicting the retreat of ice at our poles in graphic detail.
Professor Petteri Taalas, the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation of the United Nations, issued a similar dire warning.
He emphasized that the melted ice will never return and stated that the planet has “lost the glacier melting and sea level rise game.”
“We have lost this glacier melting and sea level rise game due to the already high concentration of carbon dioxide,” he stated.
Global warming may last thousands of years due to sluggish atmospheric carbon dioxide elimination.
We must accept these repercussions and higher temperatures since we cannot return to the climate of the previous century.
The uncommonly blunt language of Professor Taalas reflects growing concern about Arctic and Antarctic ice.
The Arctic region is warming up to three times quicker than the rest of the planet, and a recent study suggests that it could be devoid of summer sea ice by the 2030s, ten years earlier than previous estimates.
This is significant because the polar regions serve as the planet’s refrigerators.
Darker water absorbs heat when glaciers melt, accelerating global warming.
As more ice dissolves into the oceans as a result of global warming, sea levels rise.
This exacerbates coastal erosion and the impact of storm surges.
Ice loss destroys wildlife habitats and disrupts fragile ecosystems, ocean currents, and weather patterns.
Climate scientists worry about permafrost thawing.
25% of the land surface of the Northern Hemisphere is covered by permafrost, which stores nearly half of all organic carbon on Earth.
For all of these reasons, what occurs in the polar regions will have far-reaching consequences.
