Ice Caps Global Warming

Elizabeth Kolbert, journalist for “The New Yorker” has concluded that due to global warming, frozen ices are being melted. One place that Elizabeth Kolbert has visited is the Shishmaref village. People that live in Shishmaref hunted animals with snowmobiles without a problem. Due to the ice being melted, Shishmaref got into some problems which some turned out to a disaster for them.
Elizabeth Kolbert also saw how the climate was changeable every year since 1990. The affect of the weather changing every year is that each year, it seem the hottest year in Shishmaref. Because of carbon dioxide being increased, this had an increase to seven billion metric tons which increased the temperature instead a decrease. As a result of carbon dioxide, between the years of 1990 and 2004, the temperature has been increasing to be the hottest year.
In Shishmaref, there are people that live there to hunt animals such as seals, moose, rabbit, walrus, and birds. The way that they do there hunting is by driving a snowmobile to capture the animals. Later between the fall and spring, the ice of the village started to break up which became a disaster. Because of the ices being broken apart, the hunters are now using their boats to hunt because it was too much of a risk to use their snowmobiles to hunt. There were also houses that were built and what kept them up was the permafrost. This led the houses to sink because since the permafrost was now just water, there was nothing holding the houses up. There was an island called Sarichef which ice was surrounding it. The ice was protecting the village from tornados and waves from the ocean. With it being lowered and broken down, in October 1997, it was attacked by a tornado that destroyed many houses. Later, in October 2001, the village was again destroyed by waves that were about 12 waves. This shows how global warming is affecting cold places. Because of ice being melted, not only it relates to the place, it also relates to the people that live there. As far from the ices being broken down to ice, Elizabeth Kolbert states that in the summer time, the temperature of increasing yearly due to carbon dioxide. In 1990, the temperature reaches to a limit which was called the hottest temperature ever. Now every year was seen as the hottest temperature to be reached in the summer. 1998 was the exact year that the hottest temperature was in. This shows how after 1990, the metric tons has been increasing and that is mainly a result of the temperature being high.
From this, the only way that people will focus on global warming so much is when they first see the affects of it than being warned.

Kolbert, Elizabeth. "The Climate of Man- I." The New Yorker. Copyright 2005, The New Yorker.