Today I was finally back, so I gave both my blog discussions. I don't really like ranting in public because I like to keep the peace (to an extent...) so I didn't go all out like I did in my blog. Mr. Bruns, thank you for saying my rant was one of the best you've ever read. It means a lot that someone cares about my opininos, weather they agree with them or not! Today we watched the movie Planet in Peril. One-hundred-billion ice in Greenland per year is melting. Scientists don't think the entire ice sheet could melt any time soon, but every raise of sea level counts. Scientists say our burning of fossil fuels contribute to our climate change. There would usually be more snow than there is now. Greenland is much warmer than expected. Even by stoping the increase of CO2 today we will still have a sea level increase. It's not easy to land a helicopter on a glacier. A peninsula became an island because what connected it to Greenland melted and went away. In some spots ice thickness has deminished by 40% in 40 years. Greenland's map is changing becasue of climate change. Climate change will have a big inpact on future generations, and it also has a big inpact on animals and people living now. Polar bears Alaska is very hard to do. Scientists test polar bears to see how climate change effects them, because they can learn a lot from polar bears. There have been a decline in cubs and cubs and male polar bears are smaller. The ice in Alaska is also melting, just like in Greenland. Some polar bears are actually drownding while trying to swim the even-longer stretches of water. Ice is melting much faster than anyone expected. Sea ice loss has now passed predictions for the year 2050. Wow! Protecting polar bears is the first time an animal has been protected because of global warming. Along with it's habitat, it could disappear. That's where we ended today.
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