The global temperatures around the world are constantly increasing day by day. Even the polar regions known to have the coldest temperatures are slowly warming up and the area of sea ice around Antarctica has now hit a record low.
Scientists are reporting that they have never seen such extreme situations before and according to them, the ice extent is expected to shrink even further before this year's melting season ends, which means that there is now less sea ice surrounding the Antarctica continent than at any time in recent history.
The concern about the Antarctica ice melting has been there for a very long time. Scientists using climate models have suggested the giant West Antarctic ice sheet which sits on the continent is doomed to collapse due to levels of global heating.
Researchers have further warned that the increasing loss of sea ice exposes ice sheets and their glaciers to waves that accelerate their disintegration and melting.
Moreover, this news comes as a concern after the data that has been published by the World Meteorological Organization which states that sea levels have now been rising faster than ever before in the last few decades and will continue to rise in the future putting millions of people at risk.
The World's Meteorological Organization's data has said that global warming has caused ice loss and glacier melts worldwide. It also caused the thermal expansion of water, a phenomenon by which any object that is subjected to heat expands.
The ocean is heating up faster over the past century than since the end of the last deglacial transition which was around 11,000 years ago.
Moreover, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned about the threat posed by rising sea levels to hundreds of millions of people living in low-lying coastal areas and also small island states as new data has revealed that seas have risen pretty rapidly since the 1900s.
It's even said that sea level rise now threatens massive orders of entire populations on a biblical scale so urgent action is required to reverse the risk of global temperatures if it is not controlled then global warming will increase at an exponential rate.
As once the glaciers are gone, the protective cover of the earth will also be lost.
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