Land ' gets better '

The Earth is not a ball in the full sense of the word, reminiscent of Geophysics. Earth's surface at the North Pole about 21 km closer to the nucleus than at the equator. This is the result ended 11 thousand. years ago the Ice Age when the planet for two and a half million years, experienced the fall of surface temperature and atmospheric. At some point, the mass of ice was so great that the ice is deformed the earth's crust and mantle, the planet priplyusnuv top and squeezing ' excess fat ' on the equator.
As a result, the reverse effect after the Ice Age Earth gradually began to return to the ideal spherical shape, says National Geographic. According to the scientists ' bulge ' at the equator each year declined by about a millimeter. But now the process of ' slimming ' suddenly turned back.
These conclusions were American researchers at the University of Colorado, examined data from the satellites of the program GRACE, measuring gravity and climate change on the planet. ' Now, these changes ( reduction of the width of the girth ) inhibit the specific reasons - said geophysicist John Weir. - The rate of ice melting in the North and South Poles, which reached 382 billion tons of ice per year, eliminated the ' slimming effect '.

All the melted ice falls into the ocean, and the mass of water rushing to the area of ​​the equator. Through this process the volume of Earth's ' waist ' every 10 years, increasing to seven millimeters. Scientists have determined that the Earth began to ' plump up ' from the beginning of the 90s. the last century, when the ice mass changes and the amount of water in the ocean for the first time acquired a large-scale nature of the Millennium.
It is believed that due to global warming climate on the planet over the last decade have become less favorable for life - these are the results of recent research in the field of Meteorology and Geophysics. Climate change is leading to large-scale disasters, which every year become more destructive. compared the Special Adviser on Climate Change, World Bank, Andrew Steer, two-thirds of European cities may soon be under water, and all are in danger of 350 million people. Previously, scientists have found that in the next century, water can take away from the territory of the major maritime powers. Thus, even before the end of the century will be under water most of Iceland, Scotland, almost all the northern islands, and many. Floods threaten as Denmark and the Netherlands. In the remaining territories of the United Kingdom, Ireland and parts of Canada's people live almost can not. And the melting of glaciers threatens the South almost all island states in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Rice Osadchy.