“We did not expect that the ice sheets can react to warming on such a short time scale.”

– Konrad Steffen, Geographer, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Carbondioxide is a Greenhouse gas. It means that this gas traps the radiation which tries to get out of the planet earth. Trapping of this gas causes the energy associated with the radiation to raise the temperature of the planet. The glaciers present at the poles of the planet absorb this energy and melt. They gush in to the oceans of the planet raising the water level. An average American emits 5 tons of carbon annually. Scientists say that eventually such activities will submerge island nations, cause floods in the cities and the people living in the coastal regions will be facing the danger of destructive storms. So, are the efforts to get adopted to an underwater life already beginning? An underwater meeting conducted by the government of Maldives recently suggests so.

What compelled the Maldives government to take such steps is the fact that in couples of years the island nation will be submerged completely underwater. The meeting was held to garner the attention of the carbondioxide emitting nations of the world about the future outcomes. The cabinet signed a document in the meeting urging the developed and the developing nations to minimize the emission of the dreadful carbondioxide gas.

According to an estimation, 1 out of 10 persons in the world live in the low-lying region and face danger from the rising sea levels. This fact poses threats to millions of people living in the coastal regions of America too. Apart from floods, powerful hurricanes can also cause havoc. Particularly the southeast of United States and northeast of california are the vulnerable regions to get affected majorly by the rising sea levels.

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