AboutDr. Jesse LaPrade Expertise I am a professional environmental educator at Auburn University. My specialty is indoor air quality, including radon awareness and mitigation of all structures. I am well versed in issues involving mold and mildew in homes and other structures, as well as volatile organic compounds (odors) in homes. I teach the general public about asthma triggers such as dust, dust mites and other particulate matter, as well as pollen and the interaction of genetic inheritance with this malady.
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Past/Present clients All Alabama citizens interested in Environmental Education, including Indoor Air Quality, Radon Education and how to fix associated problems. All of these programs are fully federally grant funded; therefore, this is a no-cost service to citizens.
The temperature is increasing every year, What is the average temperature that can melt all the glaciers and By which year it may occur? I heared that it may be the year 2030 is it true? Please help me with some stastics.
Suppose all the glaciers melt then the sealevel will rise upto how much of height from the normal ground level??
Answer Hafeez:
Global warming research is not an exact science. I have heard that there may be significant glacier melt by 2030, but the actual outcome is dependant on a number of variables, such as average warming per year and where the maximum warming takes place. You can get statistics from doing a web search on "global warming". You can look at Mr. Gore's film,and book, "An Inconvenient Truth", to get the sea level expectations based on glacial melt.
Scientists such as Dr. James E. Hanson, Columbia University in New York is a leading expert on Global Warming. You may want to look at his treatise "Earth's Energy Out of Balance: The Smoking Gun for Global Warming" which will give you some insight on all of the variables involved and how they change depending on other variables.
Scientists are required to develop experimental models to better understand what we may be able to expect with Global Climate Change in the future.
To me, right now, Global Warming is a lot of "what if's" with nothing certain. We do need to take it seriously even if we think it may not actually happen. The main reason to take it seriously is because it is so damaging to the earth as we now know it that it would totally change the way we live and would wreak havoc on animals and plants and could end the earth as we now know it.
