Detail The Melting North   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8789 (Jun. 2012), page S3-S5. Topik: Climate Change; Glaciers; Global Warming Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.72 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Standing on the Greenland ice cap, it is obvious why restless modern man so reveres wild places. Everywhere you look, ice draws the eye, squeezed and chiselled by a unique coincidence of forces. The Arctic is one of the world's least explored and last wild places. Even the names of its seas and rivers are unfamiliar, though many are vast. Yet the region is anything but inviolate. A heat map of the world, colour-coded for temperature change, shows the Arctic in sizzling maroon. Since 1951 it has warmed roughly twice as much as the global average. In that period the temperature in Greenland has gone up by 1.5[degrees]C, compared with around 0.7[degrees]C globally. This disparity is expected to continue. A 2[degrees]C increase in global temperatures--which appears inevitable as greenhouse-gas emissions soar--would mean Arctic warming of 3-6[degrees]C. Almost all Arctic glaciers have receded. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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