Sweets Glacier is not only the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica, but also the one with the highest temperature and the most serious loss in Antarctica. Some scientists go to the South Pole to explore the Sweets Glacier. They drilled holes in the surface of the glacier and found that the temperature of the sea water at the bottom of the glacier actually reached two degrees Celsius.
The sea water has reached two degrees Celsius. What does this mean? On behalf of the bottom of the glacier, there is normal temperature water, which will not bring good influence to the glacier, but will only bring bad influence to the glacier. It will melt the bottom of the glacier, thus accelerating the melting speed of the glacier and making the glacier slide into the ocean faster and faster.
Scientists not only found normal temperature water under the Sweets glacier, but also found a huge hole. The area of this depression has exceeded 39 square kilometers. Simply put, this hole is about the size of a small city in China.
Through the study of this hole, scientists also found that some heat flows often gush out from the geomagnetic depth of this hole. These heat flows will reach the bottom of the glacier, making the Antarctic ice sheet in a higher temperature state.
The heat flow under Sweets Glacier will not only cause glaciers to melt, but also force the surrounding glaciers to melt. Some experts even pointed out that this glacier is like a "hot pot", always boiling. With the melting of glaciers, the dangers facing mankind will also increase day by day.
The heat flow under the Sweets glacier mainly comes from the melting ice layer of the ice sheet, and the process of heat flow is mainly geothermal energy. As long as the heat keeps increasing, Sweets Glacier will keep melting until it disappears.
In fact, glaciers are melting not only because of the existence of heat under the ice sheet, but also because of the impact of our human activities on the earth. In recent years, everyone has mentioned a concept that the global climate is getting warmer. But you may not know what kind of threat global warming will bring to our nature and human beings.
Glaciers in Antarctica and the Arctic are the first threats to global warming. Glaciers in Antarctica and Arctic are in normal temperature state, which will lead to melting glaciers, increasing oceans and rising sea levels, and ultimately affect our daily life.
We can't stop the heat transfer under the glacier ice sheet, but there is a way to control the global climate. As long as we reduce the emission of carbon dioxide in the air and protect our environment, our earth will not have so many natural disasters, and the earth will not be in a state of greenhouse effect.