A study published in late November 2012 in the journal Science estimates that the melting of
ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland had raised global sea levels by 11.1
millimeters (0.43 inch) since 1992. That represents one-fifth of the total
sea-level rise increase in that period. Other contributors include the
expansion of the sea water from warming, and the melting of glaciers, as for
instance on mountains. In the 1990's, melting of the polar ice sheets in the
Antarctica and Greenland was responsible for about 10 percent of the global
sea-level rise, but by 2012 the effect had risen to 30 percent.[1]
The study does not, however, uncover the underlying cause, or association,
lying in a complexity in human nature itself. Our species has vaunted to the
top of the food chain and leveraged a brain capable of engineering
technological advances that would have seemed magical even just in the
nineteenth century, and yet we seem hard-wired to accelerate our course to a
self-destructive extinction. This lack of balance is reflected in the
increasing extremes in the global climate. In this essay, I begin with the
study and steadily work toward uncovering the underlying, subterranean culprit, which would go on to produce record-high carbon-emissions in 2017.
The entire essay is at "Oceans Arising on Edifices of Arrogance"
