While many of us are aware of
the issue of global warming, we are often uneducated on the different ways
global warming has an effect on our every day lives. Through this article the
effects of global warming are depicted through the overwhelming discovery of
future flooding in America. This flooding issue threatens approximately 4
million citizens covering a surface area larger than the state of Maryland. Scientist
predict a 1 meter sea level increase with the continuance of global warming. To
gain more information abuot this issue and who it threatens researchers are
studying the US mainland that is most likely to experience flooding from the
hid tide lines. Scientist also believve that this flooding issue stems from
global warming through thermal expansion and the melting of ice glaciers.
Thermal expansion is describe as the expansion of water as it warms. Areas that
were found at high risk include most at risk Florida, Louisiana, California,
New York andNew Jersey covering many coast lines.
This display of the effects
of global warming is really eye opening to educating us that global warming is
more than just the increase in temperatures and the melting of ice glaciers.
This type of environmental destruction can greatly affect the our home lives, daily transportation and communication. Flooding seems to hit home showing just how much our daily lives can be ruined
and ways our families could be divided on a more personal level.
Institute
of Physics (IOP) (2012, March 14). Millions of Americans at risk of flooding as
sea levels rise. ScienceDaily.
Retrieved March 16, 2012, from http://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2012/03/120314111738.htm
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