Argumentative Essay About Melting Glacierss

Global warming is a threat to humanity. As an international student from Singapore, I am alarmed about the catastrophic consequences of climate change. It is already happening in our lives. Rising sea levels caused by the melting glaciers poses a direct threat to my home. Island nations and coastal cities will suffer the inevitable if we do not act now. In six degrees, Mark Lynas warned the impending arctic tipping point, once passed, the melting of the glaciers cannot be reversed, leading to a loss of habitable environment. However, I believe that the situation is worse than what Lynas anticipated.

Despite some efforts from the international to curb the increasing carbon emissions, glaciers are melting faster than ever. These melting glaciers result in far more dire consequences than just rising sea levels. On top of losing habitable land on coastal areas, the loss of permafrost ice layers release massive amounts of methane gas, further amplifying the greenhouse effect. This creates a positive feedback loop bringing Earth’s temperature up and over the tipping point faster than original projections. There is overwhelming evidence to suggest that, once
It will be written in a scholarly but not esoteric fashion directed to the general public and members of the academia alike. I will include scholarly articles for scientific evidence and media mediums for popular opinion. The first supporting scientific source is a research paper on Arctic Climate Tipping points by Dr. Timothy M. Lenton, climate change professor at university of exeter. He provides a credible analysis of the approaching arctic tipping point by using quantitative analysis of declining arctic ice sheet from 2000 to the present. His models suggests that the decline of ice sheets further accelerated effects of global