This is the latest news on global warming. The Icy Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic is no longer half as icy as it used to be 50 years ago. And the warming temperatures are to be blamed. The latest research on the same by University of Colorado at Boulder claims that the island will vanish by the middle of the century. Geological sciences Professor Gifford Miller of CU-Boulder’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research said: “Even with no additional warming, we are sure the ice caps will disappear in 50 years or less.”
Lying above the Arctic Circle, this island is located on the west of Greenland and is the fifth largest island in the world with an area of 196,000 square miles. The study also indicates two significant bursts of Baffin Island ice cap around 1280 A.D. and 1450 A.D. These findings prove that these eruptions were responsible for the Little Ice Age, which was a period between 1250 to 1850 and resulted in the cooling of Northern Hemisphere.
The Arctic’s temperature has been rising in the recent past due to the greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere. Apparently, the temperature has risen by seven degrees Fahrenheit since 1991.
Via NewsWire