Essay on Analysis of "Chonicles of Ice" by Gretel Erhlich

Imagine a world with no trees, no healthy grass, no glaciers, or no living creatures at all. The cause of this tragedy could be the increase in heat in the Earth’s atmosphere due to global warming. If global warming continues to increase, the world will be left empty. The Earth has been around for a long time, and many feet have walked on it, but no one has walked on this Earth without trees, grass, or creatures. With global warming, the Earth’s meteorology gets too warm, and all of the glaciers will start to melt. Global warming occurs when an increase in the carbon dioxide levels causes the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere to rise. The Earth’s meteorology is often a subject explored in literature. For example, “Chronicles of Ice” talks

Ehrlich on the other hand, has a very different approach to the way she talks about the issue. She uses a lot of sensory images and personal experience. She mentally paints a picture for us to see what is happening. She uses very intriguing vocabulary to describe the massive glaciers. In her essay, she uses subtle personification to describe the way the ice stands. Ehrlich talks about the way people go to see the glaciers fall and fail, but they are not interested in the strength it takes for them to hold themselves together. She makes an interesting statement of how glaciers are historians and archivists of our world. She describes how they hold everything from dust, to pollen and even gasses. This helps our world to look back and be able to see the way that the environment is changing over the years. She also makes a reference that the deterioration of the glaciers is a result of our “…smokestack and tailpipe society” (271). This seemed to be a harsh statement towards society as a whole. Without the new technologies, buildings, cars and everything that is grouped in with being considered a smokestack society, our world would not be anywhere near where it is today.

Global warming is known as a slow increase in temperature over the course of an extended period of time (Simpson, 2009). Canadians have long seen this term being used across the media on a whim, but could one imagine that one of the countries most responsible for the crisis is Canada? Global warming is affecting Canadians at an unsettling rate, a notable example being the Lowell Glacier of Kluane National Park, B.C. This glacier has been losing 22 cubic kilometres of ice a year- about 22 billion cubic metres of water. Thus, specialists decided on methods to slow melting, the best solution being to cut down on “human consumption of fossil fuels” (“Unprecedented B.C glacier melt seeps into U.S climate change concerns”, 2014). Regardless of its resolution, Canada will never be able to do enough to completely solve the issue of global warming without making compromises. However, Canadians have been taking the issue more seriously. Three factors exist that

Global warming persists as one of the world’s biggest issues today that is causing several problems that include the world’s severe climate and rising sea levels while possibly being the main cause as to why all of mankind could go extinct. This global crisis is known as the steady increase in the world’s average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans that are proven to be permanently changing the world’s climate (Live Science, 2014). This phenomenon is strongly evident as Earth’s temperature has also increased by 2 degrees Celsius since the last century. As a result of this, Canadian glaciers are melting at a higher rate of 2 to 3 feet than of what it was a decade before (Lerner, 2014). All astoundingly happening while the Artic Canadian permafrost has begun to melt (Davidson,2015). The state of this issue in Canada does not seem to be improving as validated through both the scientific evidence as well as the blatant and irrefutable observable evidence.

I chose this article because I think it’s an important topic that affects Canada greatly. People all across the world are affected by climate change, but Canada will experience it more than any other place due to the fact that we are far from the equator and higher up North. This should be a concern to Canadians everywhere, because although people in Nunavut will feel warming worse than in Ontario, we are all still going to be affected by this in some way. It’s never too late to take action, and before conditions get worse, we should look into ways of reducing climate change. Not only is it worrying that people will be harmed and forced to move because of this, but we are hurting our planet, and now is the time to change that. Gregory Flato

He insists that throughout the Industrial Era, most human activities had been creating a greenhouse effect, impacting the environment and global distribution. He adopts a passionate tone in order to establish his point of view to the readers in America, who question the significance of global warming. Easterbrook appeals to the anxious emotions of his audience by listing influencing elements, such as how the weather will make countries envy each other’s territory, or how dangerous rising sea-level will drown most of the big, prosperous coastal city. Moreover, through his angle of vision, he warns the reader about the advantages the snowy cold high-latitude regions will get, and the disadvantages the humid hot low-latitude regions will suffer during the global warming. He frequently posing question includes the word “we” in it to make sure that the audiences connect with him. Easterbrook creates credibility and is persuasive toward the audience by successfully giving a future look and inevitable consequences of global warming. However, his evidence is only through his opinions and guessing without citing any sources, making it seem unreliable. Nonetheless, Easterbrook has succeeded in creating an effect on the audiences and communicating his thoughts on global

Farge has been tracking glaciers in Glacier National Park for 25 years. The degrading ice fields are measured and photographed often. A once famous Boulder Glacier has been left to slush, with the same still happening to many Glaciers. In the park 50 glaciers existed in the mid nineteen fifties, now only 25 are left. In 1977 Gore made a speech on Grinnell Glacier about climate change. With the once 15-20 foot drop they were worried about falling ice. Today, the drop isn’t even to your kneecap. Cloud Glacier Peak is predicted to die in 2035. The decline has led to a loss of homes for many species. Animals that live near glacier edges enjoyed the conditioned temperatures, are now losing that. With the loss of these Glacier sea levels are rising

In the first passage, “The Last Wilderness Preserve”, the author argues that Antarctica should be kept away from humans, so the continent can preserve in its natural splendor. In the passage it states, “Global warming, a gradual heating of the planet thought

The melting glaciers and ice caps will have, and in places are already having, major impacts on coastal and inland communities, cause social and economic upheavals, and greatly impact the diversity and distribution of species – not to mention changing the appearance of beloved landscapes. The Earth is hurting in the mountains of Eastern KY and WV, with mountaintop removal practices and the filling of hundreds of miles of headwaters with toxic sludge, and the disease and destruction brought to the lives of the people whose homes and heritage are found there. We see it hurting in the Amazon region, the world’s largest and most diverse forest, which is predicted to be 50% gone by 2050 – almost unimaginable.

Mendenhall Glacier is the most recent environmental victim of a warmer planet. First measured in 1911, the glacier has receded by more than 2900 meters (Braasch, G. 2011). The marvelous thing about glaciers is that they can regenerate their mass through snowfall, but they can lose their mass due to sublimation, water evaporating from the ice, and melting. Sadly, this isn’t the case anymore as the summers out heat whatever the glaciers had tried to regenerate during the winters. Since 1980, glaciers on average have melted 17 meters of water (“NOAA Climate.gov”. 2017). When glaciers melt, the resulting water adds to overall volume of the ocean. According to The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the global average of rising sea levels has been 3.4 millimeters a year since 1993 (“NOAA Climate.gov”. 2017). Before 1993, the average rise of sea level a year was only at

No 'National Imperative' For Icebreakers is an article published by Kamala Keller on The Arctic Newswire. It was published on August 26, 2015. This article would be in the political and environmental categories.

Although holes, in the ozone layer are natural, the pollutants cause by deforestation, and fracking, can, and in fact, do, destroy the ozone layer, continually allowing the sun to emit more UV rays into the atmosphere heating the earth’s surface. The natural, or not so natural heating of the earth is a very important aspect to look at, when talking about the reasons behind global warming. In the painting, by Chantal Bilodeau, one is able to see a polar bear stranded on an iceberg in the middle of an ocean where it is unable to make the lengthy swim back to a larger land or ice mass. This photo represents the effects of climate change in terms of ocean levels rising due to melting polar ice caps. If these polar ice caps, melt, even 50%, the water levels will increase 20 meters in height, flooding the majority of coastal cities, including, New York, California, Dubai and many others. The melting of the polar icecaps, will kill hundreds of arctic species, leaving them either to migrate with the help of animal protection programs, or they will die of inhabitation along with millions of humans who will die because of severe and dangerous floods in some of the worlds most inhabited cities. For these reasons, it is clear that climate change, is an ingoing issue that can be classified as human based, and naturally based if one considered the change in pace, due to human actions. Whether, people consider it a natural phenomenon, hoax, or take responsibility for their actions, Global warming is clearly a worldwide problem that is going to eventually cause extinction of the human race if it is not resolved in the next decades, as said by both Lynas, and Klein in their outstanding scientific non-fiction

The Inuit need to understand the natural patterns of arctic wildlife because the world has become more unprudible. In the video it states “ The environment has become more unpredictable.” This states that global warming has caused the ice to melt and causes the arctic to become more unprudible. In conclusion, the arctic has become more unprudible. Part 7:19

The Long Thaw by David Archer discusses what has been a topic of great debate during the last couple of years: global warming. He begins by explaining the fundamental cause of global warming—the greenhouse effect, something we have all heard plenty about but haven’t really understood. Archer presents his ideas in a way that educates us all on the topic by delineating the sequential history of this issue which has been a topic of discussion since the 19th century. By providing a sound explanation on what causes global warming and what it will mean for the future, I feel I learned a great deal about this oh so important issue which affects us all as a planet. One thing Archer points out is how relatively new global warming is to us, and this is because we’ve had such

The argument’s main idea is that melting glaciers may have a negative impact on the environment, but they are allowing scientists to make new discoveries. The author, Alan Burdick, develops this argument by explaining that glaciers are melting at a rapid rate, which causes disruptions in the ecosystem. However, scientists are able to find artifacts that were once frozen in the glaciers. These artifacts would have been unavailable to scientists if the glaciers had not started melting. Many of the ancient items are in perfect condition because they were frozen in the ice. One example of a recent finding is a wooden box that is believed to have stored food. The article shows how these artifacts help scientists have a better understanding of the