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How to deal with the unpredictable consequences of global warming, melting glaciers and rising sea water?

The greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide makes glaciers melt slowly, and all the ice and snow in the Antarctic continent melt. When it flows into the ocean, the seawater will rise by about 60 meters, and the glaciers in Greenland in the northern hemisphere are also very large. If they melt completely, the sea will rise by six or seven meters. Of course, all glaciers will not melt all at once.

Some scientists have proved that the sea water is rising at a rate of two or three millimeters a year. At this rate, all the glaciers on the earth will take tens of thousands of years to melt, but there will be many accidents in the middle. As the temperature rises, methane gas buried under the Arctic glaciers will be released, accelerating the temperature rise, so this time will be shortened, so it is difficult to predict the specific time of total melting, which may be thousands of years, hundreds of years or even shorter. Therefore, we should take corresponding measures as soon as possible, such as reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

As the temperature rises, there are more and more extreme weather and the weather is changeable. Will this turn the tropics into arid areas and the original temperate zones into subtropics for a long time? This will continue to form new deserts. Will some rivers dry up? Therefore, we should protect rivers, protect water resources and build more reservoirs and dams to store a lot of fresh water.