North America’s North East Coast Could Face a Rise in Sea Level

Researchers said that if Greenland’s ice keeps melting as fast as it is now; this could pose a threat to the cities and areas which lie close to the sea level. Researchers have reported that the rise could be as high as 12 – 20 inches more than other coastal areas. This is because the current-rate of ice-melting in Greenland could send a lot of fresh water into the salty North Atlantic Ocean that it could modify the vast ocean circulation pattern.

This could put residents of Halifax, New York, Boston and Nova Scotia at risk as well as other areas near sea level. Drainage systems could also be affected as salty ocean water moves back to river deltas resulting to change in the biological environment.

Hu, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, said that the 7 percent annual increase of Greenland’s ice-melt rate could go on for the next 50 years because the rate of increase in climate-warming carbon dioxide is higher than what was projected by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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