Summary response

HeeJin Shin
EAP2
Writer’s Workshop
Summary Response
May 27, 2008

Antarctic Ice Shelf broken.

In the National Snow and Ice Data Center (2008) article “Antarctic Ice Shelf Disintegration Underscores a Warming World” the author state that recent satellite imagery describes how the ice shelf come to collapse due to catastrophic climate change in the south pole. The Wilkins ice shelf is the widest and oldest of floating ice on the southwest Antarctic Peninsula. But satellite images explain how the Wilkins ice shelf comes to collapse. Also the author discussed the fact that the Wilkins ice does not affect the rising of the sea level but if it collapses, the other ice will fall down, so that will affect the rising of the sea level. Most scientists say that Antarctic’s ice shelf is an important resource in the world, so people should prevent more ice from breaking up.

Maybe it’s apparent that the ice shelf collapse is a big problem. Human are faced with global warming. Now the earth is getting hotter and hotter so it brings lots of environmental problems. People have to protect the earth, which will get hard to do, but the earth is our living space, so we should keep it clean. Some causes make global warming, such as broken ozone, destroyed forest, and polluted ocean.

First, we have to prevent the breakdown of ozone. The ozone is around the earth; it also helps us to breathe and protects us from ultraviolet rays. Recently, most countries live in an industrial society, so people waste smoke that causes the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the main reason for global warming and also the broken ozone. If ozone is disappears, everyone can live more in the earth. Nobody can live on earth anymore.

Second, we should protect forest. Trees provide fresh air, but humans destroy mostly forests. Forest is an important resource in the world. It gives us many kinds of supplies, such as wood and fresh air. However, if people would try to plant seeds in the ground, it would do one important thing; save the forest

Last, we should save the ocean. The ocean pollution is a serious problem in the environment. Human are lived in an agriculture society, which at that time didn’t use chemical resources. Nowadays, most farmers are using chemical resources such as pesticide. If this chemical resource flows to water, that makes it possible for water pollution.

In conclusion, those reasons are very familiar causes, because everyone knows well about those problems. Those are definitely basic and serious problems. The earth is in human’s own hands; also there is nothing more important than the earth. Humans should focus on environmental problems and solve them.

Reference
Antarctic Ice Shelf disintegration underscores a warming world. (2008, March 25). National Snow and Ice Data Center. Retrieved May 28, 2008, from http://nsidc.org/news/press/20080325_wilkins.html