Hither to, the general opinion,
based on what experts have told us is that liquefaction of ice sheets, glaciers
etc. is as a result of global warming, at least to the best of their knowledge.
Guess what, another emerging factor is coming to the fore,
compelling experts to revise their parochial, so to speak, position based on
global warming projection base. It has
been discovered and realized that another rising factor is coming into play.
That factor is the algae-growing factor. The fast-growing algae on Greenland
ice sheet. The fear expressed by experts is that the algae spread might be adding
to ice liquefaction and therefore accelerating ice-liquefaction process.
I have mentioned Greenland. Let
me go on to say a little more about this ice sheet. This ice sheet is located
between the Arctic Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. The ice sheet as an autonomous
territory, is part of the Denmark kingdom. It is inhabited mainly by Inuits. Inuits
can be found in Alaska- USA and Canada as well. The USA call them Eskimos. They
are Asiatic. They originally migrated from Siberia.
Greenland is a huge ice sheet.
When and as it liquefies, it pours liquefaction into the Arctic and Atlantic
oceans-north and south respectively eating into land masses as such. From north
to south, with Greenland as the topmost point in the north, the Atlantic Ocean
runs along 4 continents (east and west) namely North America, South America,
Europe and Africa.
Let me lend practicality to what
I have said so far. I live on the Gulf of Guinea, the West African coast of the
Atlantic Ocean, specifically Ghana. Horizontally, from my side of the Atlantic
Ocean (I live on 3rd Otswe Street, South La Estates, La Dadekotopon
Municipality-shares border with Accra Metropolis, and Accra is the capital of
Ghana), I should end up in South America. I should end up in French Guiana,
Suriname or Guyana. After my street, there is another street which is closer to
the beach than the 3rd Otswe Street- 4th Ostwe Street.
Between the 4th Otswe Street and the beach (Atlantic Ocean) there
are hotels, night clubs, restaurants, bars, churches and others. Some of those
are Labadi Beach Hotel, La Palm Hotel, Artists Alliance, Tawala and Sandbox. My
residence on the 3rd Otswe Street is about 200 meters from the
Atlantic Ocean.
When Greenland liquefies, as it
is doing, thanks to global warming, liquefaction finds its way into two oceans-
as I have already indicated, the Atlantic and the Arctic oceans. Those oceans
are the oceans rise in sea levels hit directly as a result of liquefaction of
Greenland. The liquefaction as it is generally known, is an attribution to
global warming. But another phenomenon is occurring as I have hinted. A phenomenon that has hither to not been
factored into climate change attribution. That emerging attribution is fast
growing algae on Greenland ice sheets. This is the attribution that experts
suspect might be a game changer! A large
patch of algae growth on the Greenland ice sheet coincided with increase liquefaction
of ice. So, is the growth of algae a mere coincidence in ice liquefaction or is
it a catalyst of ice liquefaction? Research is ongoing but there is the
inclination to think that algae catalyzes liquefaction of ice.
Therefore, as and when sea level
increase accelerates, and for that matter the need for sea water to find space,
the space between the beach and my street (3rd Otswe Street) should
get submerged. The restaurants, hotels, churches etc. should be swallowed up
first, then the fourth street and so on and so forth. The other side of the
Atlantic Ocean, with coastal cities like New York will be submerged too.
The long and short of it is that growth of
algae appears to be adding up to the melting of ice sheet on Greenland. Already
global warming is doing a lot of damage to liquefaction of ice. Addition of
algae growth to global warming as attribution of liquefaction speeds up the
liquefaction process. The end result is that more land mass will be lost to the
oceans at a quicker rate. Loss of landmass means loss of Tawala, Sandbox,
Labadi Beach Hotel, Royal Palm Hotel etc., and places on the other side of the
Atlantic Ocean like New York, New Jersey, Canada, Brazil and others along the
Atlantic Ocean, from Greenland down, vertically from north to south.
I have tried, on purpose, to be as graphic as
possible so as to show you how you can personally be affected by the way we are
mishandling the natural environment i.e. the release of greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere etc.. Even at current projections, based on known attribution
such as global warming, the future of the natural environment is gloomy enough,
let alone the addition of new attribution (algae).
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