While modern humans are anxious about the possibility that rising sea levels may engulf land, it is inconceivable and surprising that the waters of Ireland continue to sink, that is, the relative height of Ireland's land is rising, as if it has become a prominent corner of the earth, so can Ireland become the only surviving new continent in the Bible, the new Noah's Ark, after all other continents have been gradually swallowed up by the sea? Many people will think about it, so let's see what kind of transformation is taking place in the sea level of this Ireland at the physical level. The sea lagoon in one village in Ireland has become shallower and shallower, almost impossible to navigate, and ships have almost bottomed out, potentially causing disasters at any time.
So what exactly causes the ground to rise and sink? It turns out that global warming has led to the rapid disintegration of glaciers as icebergs melt, and some parts of Ireland have just been pressed by heavy icebergs, and as icebergs dissolve at super-rapid speeds not seen in the past 200 years, the pressed Irish land is highly reduced and rising.
About a tenth of Ireland's land is covered by glaciers, but according to NASA statistics, melting icebergs in the Arctic have caused Ireland to lose 10 billion tons of ice each year, and by 2200, it is estimated that Ireland's icebergs will all be gone. The faster the glacier dissolves, the faster the land rises, and the ascent height is about 3.8 centimeters per year.
But in addition to the dissolution of global warming icebergs, another factor that causes the sea around Ireland to sink is the Earth's gravity. Melting icebergs have led to a surge in global ocean water, leading to sea level rise, but this rise has not been average, such as around Ireland and Greenland. Any object with mass has gravity, and the greater the mass, the stronger the earth's gravitational pull. The ice layer is very heavy, and its strong Earth's gravitational pull drags the sea water closer to the ice layer, and when the ice melts, the Earth's gravity rapidly weakens, causing the sea to overflow everywhere. NASA scientists point out that for every 1 meter increase in global average sea level due to gravitational changes caused by the melting of ice, the sea surface around Ireland will sink by 0.2 meters. However, the change in Ireland's ice layer has not yet reached such a large scale, if all of Ireland's iceberg glaciers dissolve, then the average global sea level rises by 1 cm, but the terrible thing is that the melting of icebergs in Greenland and the Arctic region is enough to create disaster. If Greenland's glaciers melted, the global sea would rise by 7.5 meters. If the icebergs in the Arctic melt, it will cause the global sea surface to rise by 60 meters
Even if humans now use green methods to obtain energy, although it can slow global warming, it will not completely prevent global warming. The latest scientific evidence suggests that if humans completely stop burning oil, sea level rise will continue until 2050.
However, the environmentally friendly energy emissions we are now embarking on will have a huge and far-reaching impact on the natural environment after 2050. Therefore, everything has inertia and lag, and only by doing a good job in the present and preparing in advance can we ensure a basically safe world and tomorrow.