Rising Seas, by Aarushi & Justin

August 4, 2020

The head of Environmental Studies, Karen Milan, studying sea expansion at the University of Portland yesterday stated, "For seven years the seas have taken a sharp decline is their productivity and as a healthy marine habitat. Sea rise and sea acidification are to blame. We need to stop the sea rise and the rising sea temperatures at their common source, which is global warming." The solution is to reduce the carbon dioxide we are releasing into the air. The main culprit is transportation. Ford Motor Company has now created a hydro-based car that runs on salt water. Ford plans to expand the production in 2021 so that current U.S. carbon dioxide emissions will be cut in half.

The 2020 Ford AquaCar

Recent studies show that the seas and oceans will rise 2.5 to 6.5 feet by the year 2100. There is enough water stored in the East Antarctic ice sheet to raise sea levels by 164 feet. There are hundreds of millions of people at risk from rising seas.

The sea has risen twenty inches in the past 100 years, and more than half of the ice that was originally at the north and south poles is now gone. As with glaciers and the ice caps, increased heat is causing the massive ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica to melt at an accelerated pace. Scientists also believe meltwater from above and below the seawater is seeping beneath Greenland's and West Antarctica's ice sheets, effectively lubricating ice streams and causing them to move more quickly into the sea. Moreover, higher sea temperatures are causing the massive ice shelves that extend out from Antarctica to melt from below, weaken, and break off. We can not lower the seas, but we can stop it from getting higher.

Ford and other companies are doing their best to provide the public with options to lower our carbon footprints and our sea levels.