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