What happens next?

	"The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it." Wallace Broecker

What happens next is not good news for people or penguins. The thing that bothers me is that the ice of the poles is melting. Some of it already is melting fast. The Arctic sea ice gets less every year and the great frozen continent of Antarctica (my home) is losing ice too. Other seas, like the North Sea, are warming too. This means that fish which need colder waters have to swim north and this can have bad effects of both fishing and seabirds.

As you know, penguins like ice. Without very cold water and ice, we get too hot because, like polar bears, we're built for cold weather. But for you people, it will be much worse.
For a start, all the ice that melts will start to fill up the oceans and make them overflow on land. And the water itself will take up more space simply because it is warmer. That will make it overflow even more onto the land.

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