The open water that eventually forms in the tropics absorbs more solar energy and initiates a faster rise in global temperatures. In a matter of centuries, a brutally hot, wet world will supplant the deep freeze. As tropical oceans thaw, seawater evaporates and works along with carbon dioxide to produce even more intense greenhouse conditions. Surface temperatures soar to more than 50 degrees Celsius,driving an intense cycle of evaporation and rainfall. Torrents of carbonic acid rain erode the rock debris left in the wake of the retreating glaciers.
Swollen rivers wash bicarbonate and other ions into the oceans, where they form carbonate sediment.
Includes live video seminars, enchanting renewal songs and a thousand page illustrated codex. A transformative network reflowering Earth's living diversity in gender reunion. The shrinking of an immense swath of Antarctic ice threatens to raise sea level-and there may be no stopping it For years, scientists have feared that the earth's ever toastier climate could melt enough polar ice to swamp populated coastal areas such as New York City. Of greatest concern is West Antarctica, which by itself harbors enough water in its frozen clutches to raise sea level by the height of a two-story home. Scientists worry about the West Antarctic ice sheet more than its counterparts in East Antarctica and Greentand, which cover bedrock that sits well above sea level.