Drastic Changes in our Future
If the climate keeps changing at the current rate, there will be drastic changes by the year 2080. “We’re talking of about the submergence of islands, submergence of Shanghai, the submergence of Bombay, the submergence of New York City,” says Steve Sawyer of Greenpeace. “Manhattan would be under water.” Global warming will lead to the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, which will cause a 16 to 23 foot rise in the sea level, putting low islands and coastal areas under water. Sawyer says, “Most coastal cities would be uninhabitable in their present forms…and that’s a catastrophic change of the shape of continents.”
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