Melting Of Glaciers

Im doing glacier melting because it is important and we need that fresh water to survive.Also i think we should do whatever we can to stop the glaciers from melting.And it also will take the crops longer to grow. It would effect our food supply. And it could kill most wild life.

Animals like polar bears, walruses, and seals who live on ice are losing their homes, and with the melting of icebergs and glaciers many oil companies are using the opportunity to get farther into to ocean to look for more oil. Many oil companies are using seismic blasting to map out the ocean floor, and by doing this there are forcing sea mammals like whales and narwhals to find new homes. With all these animals losing their homes, the life of indigenous people like the Inuit are drastically being changed. Along with the melting of icebergs and glacier in the ocean there is the ice on land. In the worst case scenario, if all the ice on land melts it will have a big impact on coastal cities and ocean currents. If all the ice on land melts, the ocean could rise almost

For many years now, scientists have believed that our climate is changing. This climate change has caused water currents up north, near Antarctica to shift leading to warm waters taking the place of the usual cold arctic waters. Warm water melts the glaciers and causes the top of the glaciers to float off into the sea, allowing the warm water to melt even more glaciers. The extra glacier melting into our sea has caused the sea levels to raise and the

Rising temperatures are causing melting glaciers, which cause rising oceans. Rising oceans will envelop entire coastal cities, killing or displacing millions of people. Our food sources will dwindle; entire species of animals will become extinct as we destroy their homes to rebuild; and as our population skyrockets, an unimaginable number of humans will be left homeless, starving, and sick.

The loss of sea ice, due to melting, affects climate patterns and amplifies global warming.

Wow, the facts in this article were pretty scary. The trend with glaciers is that they are rapidly decreasing. It states that the Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound in Alaska is the world's fastest-melting glacier. It moves 80 feet a day into the ocean. Also, the thickness of this glacier is usually 3,000 feet but over the last 25 years it reduced to only 1,300 feet. Global warming is responsible for glaciers to weaken until they collapse. The article also points out that summers in the Arctic could be no longer icy in 100 years, which would endanger the polar bears. As temperatures increase, glaciers recede and the faster glaciers melt, the faster seas will rise. The loss of glaciers also has consequences for park ecosystems and the

Global Warming has a huge affect on our daily lives and on animals. We lose a bunch of natural resources, especially fresh-water, because it melts into the salty oceans; however, attempts have been made including the slowing down of global warming by stopping the usage of fossil fuels; whether the attempts have been successful or not. The earth’s temperature is slowly increasing which is a massive long term factor on inhabitants all over the world. The Amazon Rainforest has also experienced many problems due to deforestation and the water circulation throughout all of the plants and trees. Global Warming is exponentially increasing causing the rapid melting of glaciers, which leads to ocean currents changing and

This gradual warming process can ultimately melt ice caps, elevate sea levels, and affect the natural climates of many organisms.

Rising sea levels can also erode shorelines, which will in turn make flooding more severe. Another severe effect of rising sea levels is saltwater intrusion. Saltwater intrusion occurs when saltwater intrudes into groundwater, contaminating drinking supplies, irrigation supplies, and agricultural fields (“Sea Level”). As the ocean temperatures continue to rise, sea level rises with it as seen in Figure 1. This graph shows the rate at which sea levels are rising as ocean temperatures rise. Rising sea level can be contributed to two factors, thermal expansion and melting of sea ice. Since the 1970’s, the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean around the North Pole has been shrinking, and getting thinner. The warmer water and atmosphere causes the Arctic sea ice to melt more than usual during the summer months. Not only will the melting of sea ice have

The Glaciers and Climate Change lecture notes begin with a section about "Glaciers: Indicators of Climate Change." In it, students are introduced to the definition of what glaciers are and some basic facts about them. Specifically, glaciers are thick masses of ice that originate on land and form from an accumulation, compaction, and crystallization of snow formed over many years. Presently, glaciers cover about 10% of the earth's land area and hold a significant amount of fresh water. These masses can be powerful agents of erosion and interrupt the hydrologic cycle. Glaciers are made up of two main zones: accumulation, in which glaciers grow from snow and ice, and ablation, in which glaciers lose ice from melting evaporation, or calving. If accumulation is

The impacts of global warming are the social and environmental changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions and greenhouse gases. There is a consensus that climate change is occurring among scientists, and that human activities are the primary factor. multiple impacts of climate change have already been observed, including glaciers retreat which are very common in Canada. All over the world, glaciers are melting at a very fast rate. On average, glaciers have thinned in total size by over 10 metres since 1980. The changing of rainfall patterns and the melting of multiple glaciers will indefinitely jeopardize the water supplies to hundreds of millions of people. Moreover, changes in the timing of many seasonal events; like the earlier

2) Glaciers, sea ice and tundra will melt, contributing to global sea level rise . This will make 13 out of 15 of the world’s largest cities lying in coastal plains particularly vulnerable to rises in sea level and this can cause floods , tsunamis and many horrible disasters.

Due to warming effect most of the glaciers along the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are shrinking which has contributed to global sea-level rise. Globally, ice losses had contributed 1.8 mm/yr rise in sea level but this can increase if the retreat of ice shelves and tidewater glaciers additionally enhance the loss of grounded ice and initiate the large-scale collapse of vulnerable parts of the ice sheets (Pritchard et. al, 2009). This shrinking of ice sheets are due to warming of earth systems.

The melting ice caps are having a dramatic affect on the polar regions of the earth. For example, the average temperature in the Arctic is rising twice as fast than the rest of the world (nrdc.org). The once prominent ice is now melting at a dramatic speed, which is affecting native people, wildlife, and plants. When the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf splintered, the freshwater lake that it surrounded drained into the ocean, along with the ecosystem that inhabited it. Polar bears, whales, walrus and seals are changing their feeding and migration patterns, making it harder for native people to hunt them (nrdc.org). Because of the flooding, entire villages will be uprooted order to avoid being swamped. Also, the Arctic coastlines are beginning to move as well. The melting ice caps are threatening the native peoples’ cultural identity and their very survival. Ice-dependant animals, such as walruses and ring seals will be greatly affected by the melting ice caps (treehugger.com). They have fewer places to rest on, as well as fewer places to hunt. If the ice caps keep melting, their lives will become in great danger. The melting ice caps are not only affecting the Polar Regions, but they are also affecting the rest of the world as well in the form of rising ocean levels.

Last but not least, global warming has caused the polar ice caps to melt. The melting of the polar ice caps will cause the sea levels to rise all over the world. If the sea levels rise just a metre