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The point of no return

By Megan Pardoe - Nashua | Aug 22, 2020

Climate change has always been a looming threat. But we have hit a point of no return with Greenland’s ice sheets. These ice sheets help to hold back the rising sea levels allowing coastal cities not to flood.

Greenland has been suffering from the effects of climate change for decades. But the point of no return has been hit. Scientists calculated that with the rising temperature and lack of snowfall the ice sheets in Greenland will not be able to maintain themselves. This will cause a rise of 18 feet in the world’s sea levels. Thus pushing rising waters into coastal cities causing major flooding.

Even if emissions are lowered by half with the 2050 goal, this would not help these ice sheets to return to normality. The goal would not be to build back the ice sheets of Greenland but to prevent the flooding of coastal cities.

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