Science Current events

Summary-

A problem that has been occurring all over the world has been 150 years in the making and is increasing in speed. The global warming problem is taking effect more than ever. From 1846-1995 the ice has been breaking up into water faster and faster. The research that the scientists came up with is that the air temperature is increasing 1.2 degrees Celsius each century. Now they are looking specifically at the water around northern North America. What the scientists have just found out is that there was a rapid warming through 1975-2004. The rates were 5.8 and 3.3 times faster than the rate in 1846-1995. At the same time, the temperatures were increasing 0.7 degrees Celsius. Every decade, the average number of days of snowing we had was 5.0 days less. Also, the average number of the snow height went down by 1.7 cm every decade. The changes in the ice have had many affects on fish and plankton. The ice breakup has caused a mismatch for the fish. If one fish lived in 10° water and another in 20° water, then they might get mixed up because of the ice breakup. Only in the Great Lakes has the ice not been breaking apart. The big point is that global climate change will soon turn winter into spring, so to speak.

WORK CITED
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110967