“The rift has accelerated since end of the last year", reported all the major news agencies in North America and elsewhere.
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Climate change is impacting all living beings
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Apr 20,2017 , 04:02 AM IST
“The rift has accelerated since end of the last year", reported all
the major news agencies in North America and elsewhere. "It may get
close to a full break, never seen before in the history."
This "breaking news" is about Antarctica's fourth-largest ice
shelf, Larsen C, measuring 48,600 sq km, five times the area of Israel,
irreversibly breaking away, several kilometres at a time, from its
mother continent due to exceptionally high temperatures.
NASA and British Antarctic Survey scientists have in the last
three decades observed a dramatic collapsing of smaller parts, Larsen A
and B, as noted by the Nobel Prize-winning Inter-governmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC). Larsen C, which is the largest of the three, is
now clinging by the umbilical cord of about 25 km before finally
breaking away.
The ABC drama is captivating, because these would constitute some
of the world's biggest icebergs ever to break off from an Antarctic ice
shelf. What is more, it is taking place early in 2017, when the ABC of
the "disruptive" policies of US President Donald Trump on climate change
have also started unfolding.
The year gone by has decidedly broken the temperature record as
the warmest year since modern observations began in 1880. The National
Snow and Ice Data Centre at Boulder, Colorado, has recorded that the
cover of Arctic ice, which expands and contracts in an annual cycle
during winter and summer, probably reached its maximum size this year on
March 7, when it spanned 14.42 million square kilometres, breaking the
record as the smallest winter maximum extent ever observed in records
dating to 1979.
While melting of the floating icebergs does not cause the sea
level to rise, melting of the large volume icebergs makes the way to
glaciers from the land mass of the Arctic and Antarctic to pour into the
oceans, resulting in the sea level rising. What is more frightening is
that loss of ice would cause more global warming because the heat from
the Sun would get absorbed and not get reflected back due to loss of
white cover of ice. The vicious feedback loop could trigger
record-breaking runaway warming never seen in human history.
This is called permafrost, because of the permanency of ice there.
A study released by Nature Climate Change on April 10 has revealed that
global warming will thaw about 20 per cent more permafrost than
previously thought, potentially releasing significant amounts of
greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide trapped under the layer
of ice into the Earth's atmosphere.
Around 35 million people live in the permafrost zone. A widespread
thaw could cause the ground to become unstable, putting roads and
buildings at risk of collapse. Such runaway release of greenhouse gases
has already begun as the Arctic is warming at around twice the rate as
the rest of the world. There is fear of not only mass coastal migration
of human population due to rising sea levels but also from high latitude
regions. The entire biodiversity is likely to be in mass-migration in
search of survival.
Rising temperatures and sea levels, increasing acidity of the
oceans due to additional absorbed carbon dioxide, escalation of
intensity and surge of frequency of extreme weather events like droughts
and floods are forcing land-based bio-species to move polewards by an
average of 17 km per decade -- and marine species by 72 km per decade as
per new analysis recently presented by the University of Tasmania.
The New Scientist magazine said in March 2017 that ticks that
spread Lyme disease in animals and humans is predicted to cause major
Lyme disease outbreaks in areas that have not faced the threats any time
before. The benefits to humans being provided by other species, and the
complex ecosystems they live in, are also at risk due to rising
temperatures and acidity of oceans.
A pioneering study by Science last year stated that current
warming (just one degree Celsius) has already left an obvious mark on 77
of 94 different species and ecological processes. The study hints at
possible genetic changes due to climate change and even physical traits
including body size and shape.
A study released in March by the American Psychological
Association (APA) says that climate change also takes a significant toll
on mental health. The loss of personal and professional identity, loss
of a sense of control, feelings of helplessness, fear and fatalism, and
worry about actual or potential impact of climate change can lead to
stress that can build over time and eventually lead to stress-related
problems such as substance abuse and depression, according to research
reviewed in the report. Do not we already witness this transformation
among the leaders and among us who elect them? (The writer is Chairman
of TERRE Policy Centre)
By Rajendra Shende
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