Saturday, October 8, 2011

New atlas shows extent of climate change

10:38 PM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

new island in the world on the map as the Arctic Uunartoq Qeqertaq, or the island of warming, it is recognized officially

If you've never heard of Uunartoq Qeqertaq may be because it is one of the new islands in the world, appearing in 2006 on the east coast of Greenland, 340 miles north of the Arctic Circle when the ice has declined due to global warming. On Thursday, the New Earth - translated from the Inuit and the Warming Island -. It was considered by cartographers sufficiently permanent to be included in a new edition of the world's most comprehensive Atlas

Qeqertaq Uunartoq
joined the southern Sudan and nearly 7,000 other countries and places added or changed since the last edition of the Times Atlas, understanding the world, reflecting the political change in Africa, administrative changes in China, expansion of cities in developing countries, climate change, and major infrastructure projects that changed the course of rivers, lakes and coasts.
  • world's largest physical changes in recent years it has been especially near the poles, where the climate was more extreme. Greenland seems to brown around the edges substantial, having lost about 15%, or 300,000 square miles of permanent ice cover. Antarctica is smaller, after the breakup of the Larsen B and Wilkins ice shelves.
  • But the Aral Sea in Central Asia, already reduced to only 25% size 80 years ago, is now more important than it was five years ago, thanks the reorientation of the water in Kazakhstan. Elsewhere in Asia, the islands appear out of the mouths of the Ganges and the Yangtze River such as the amount of sediment brought from the Himalayas and the internal changes in China.
  • sections of the Rio Grande, Yellow, Colorado and Tigris rivers are drying out each summer. In Mongolia, Ongyin Gol was made to allow the extraction of gold, while the Colorado River in those days, it reaches the sea in most years. "We are more concerned than in the near future the major geographical features will disappear forever. Greenland could reach a tipping point in 30 years, "says Jethro Lennox, editor of the Atlas.

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