Deteriorating climate doesn't care about politics

Chlorofluorocarbons, methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride, Freon, methyl chloroform, halons and CO2. These are all components that are destroying the ozone and atmosphere. Some of these components are outlawed in this country. The point of all of this? Global warming is mostly man-made.

The Arctic is not the fastest warming spot on the planet; it is Antarctica. Over the past few decades, the water has warmed by more than a degree Fahrenheit, in the western Antarctic. The rate at which ice is melting and eroding has quadrupled.

In 2015 and 2016, a 225-square-mile chunk of ice broke the Pine Island ice shelf and drifted away on the Amundsen Sea.

The west Antarctic ice sheet is up to two and a half miles thick and twice the size of Texas. If all that vulnerable ice were to become unmoored, break into pieces and float away, it would raise the sea level by roughly 10 feet drowning coasts around the world.

"These are the fastest retreating glaciers on the face of the earth," says Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California.

So what is the bottom line? The earth is warming at a frightening rate and doesn't care if you are liberal or conservative.

Thomas Carras

Elk Grove