| Within the next twenty years almost all of | | | | pressures, condensation and so forth, |
| the current ice structure will have melted, | | | | creating different rainfall patterns. |
| however, at present this does not concern | | | | |
| most of the world's population. While it is | | | | Â |
| true that we can live without these ice | | | | |
| masses, ecologically this is not sound. The | | | | How will the rest of the weather processes |
| planet's ecology will not be able to sustain | | | | change when around 2025 most of these ice |
| a balanced environment without its glaciers | | | | masses will have melted? We expect that for |
| and other ice masses. | | | | about five years the weather patterns will |
| | | | initially be the same, however, around 2030 |
| Â | | | | we foresee dramatic changes in the rainfall |
| | | | patterns. Once this has begun we foresee a |
| While most of humanity may think the present | | | | major change in climate within a matter of |
| melting of glaciers, Arctic ice and the ice | | | | one year. All over the planet a dramatic |
| covering mountainous areas, is a natural | | | | change in the climate affecting, in |
| event, this is not so. More and more ice is | | | | particular, the rainfall is expected to take |
| melting due to global warming as well as a | | | | place. Such changing rainfall patterns will |
| severely damaged environment which is no | | | | be ecologically disastrous for all. They are |
| longer coping. | | | | likely to become erratic, with perhaps no |
| | | | rain for longer than usual periods, or with |
| Â | | | | no rainfall at all; inland regions may be the |
| | | | worse affected by the change in climate. |
| Once this cycle of melting ice masses has | | | | |
| completed there will no longer be any ice | | | | Â |
| masses left for the many environmental | | | | |
| processes, which are all playing an important | | | | So the future looks bleak in relation to |
| part in the overall ecological balance this | | | | climate change as it stands now, with rapidly |
| planet needs. What could be the next climate | | | | declining ice masses such as the polar ice |
| phase once the ice masses have disappeared? | | | | and far more drought or flooding than before. |
| The planet could cool down to regain its | | | | |
| balance, in what for most people will be | | | | Â |
| unforeseen ways. Another possibility is that | | | | |
| the planet would change or reverse its cycle. | | | | Most of humanity has not taken much interest |
| However, none of the outcomes are a certainty | | | | in what will happen once the ice mass has |
| yet. | | | | disappeared. It is not looking ahead enough |
| | | | and has little concern for these reducing ice |
| Â | | | | masses. Humanity is not looking at the |
| | | | ever-increasing pollution problem, in |
| While some believe that land ice will only | | | | particular, atmospheric pollution, which is |
| partially disappear and that some ice will | | | | the real cause behind all of this. As a |
| always remain in the Polar Regions and | | | | result people are not taking adequate action |
| glaciers, this is not true from our | | | | to reduce their impact on the environment. |
| perspective. The planet is well on its way to | | | | |
| having almost no ice masses left within the | | | | Â |
| next twenty-five years. | | | | |
| | | | Thus, with these melting ice masses becoming |
| Â | | | | an ever-increasing problem, it is time for |
| | | | humanity to mature and look at the impact of |
| The planet's atmospheric pressure system will | | | | their present lifestyle on the environment. |
| change once these land ice masses have | | | | The ever-increasing pollution resulting from |
| disappeared. There will no longer be "water | | | | humanity's wish for luxury goods and |
| flows" as part of a balanced ecological | | | | products, which is having a serious affect on |
| structure to continue nature's cyclical | | | | the environment, cannot continue as in the |
| process in ways we currently experience. | | | | end humanity's own destiny is at stake. |
| Change will take place affecting barometric | | | | |