Currently, the global environment has become a very sensitive issue for discussion and even to think of. To talk about the environment basically, we mean the nature of the Earth which is exceptional in a disastrous condition in the present days. It has become a threat to the healthy survival of all living beings on the planet. The disaster that has affected the environment so badly involves different types of pollution, global warming, cutting down of trees, melting of glaciers, destroying the ozone layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, etc. All these disastrous factors are on the verge of destroying the environment of the Earth thus making it unable for the living beings to survive here. Suspects due to Rise in Sea Level According to the recent news it has been found that the scientists have looked at the sea level which is around 125,000 years in the past and from there they have found terrifying results. According to the study it has been seen that during the Earth’s last warm period which was 125,000 years ago, the sea levels rose to 10 meters above the present levels. According to the new research about this rise in sea level, it offers a glimpse of what might happen under the current climate change trajectory. The paper that was published previously in nature communications shows that melting ice from Antarctica was the main kind of driver from the sea level during the last interglacial period that lasted about around 10,000 years before. Therefore posed by the climatic change the rising of the sea levels is one of the biggest challenges that can prove to be a threat not only for the human civilization but also for the entire living organisms of the ecology. Even the sound predictions are crucial to this if it is made to adapt. According to this research Antarctica which was previously thought to the “sleeping giant” of sea-level rise is originally a key player in this entire game. The ice sheets of this freezing ocean can change quickly and it is done in the ways that could have huge implications for the several kinds of coastal communities and infrastructure in the future. Therefore the rise in sea level has been a serious warning from the past for the entire globe. Analysis of the Ice Ages
It is evident that the cycles of the Earth consist of both cold glacial periods or the ice ages when the large parts of the world were covered in large ice sheets, and the warmer interglacial periods when the ice thaws and the sea levels rise. The Earth is currently in an interglacial period and this is the stage which began about 10,000 years ago. But this is also true that the climate changes have caused due to the emissions of greenhouse gas over the past 200 years. These changes are faster and more extreme than experienced during the last interglacial period. This means that the previous rates of rising in sea level provide only the low-end predictions of what might happen in the future. As per the examined data from the last interglacial period it has been found that it occurred almost 125,000 to 118,000 years ago. The temperatures were up to 1°C higher than the current temperature, which is similar to those that have been projected for the near future. As per the conducted researches, it is revealed that in the last interglacial period the ice melt has caused the global seas to rise about 10 meters above the present sea level. As per the observations, the ice melted first in Antarctica and then a few thousand years later in Greenland.
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