http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140814191824.htm
In the last two decades, human contribution to the mass
decrease of glaciers went up two thirds starting in 1991. The mass loss causes
"rising sea levels, changing seasonal water availability and
increasing geo-hazards" according to the article. The researchers are
unable to detect results for particular regions but the most well documented
regions are the Alps and North America. A solution for this quickly
intensifying issue is obviously to decrease the amount of pollution and greenhouse
gases going into the atmosphere. Global warming is the main issue of glacier
mass reduction and it could potentially be a huge issue if
it continues at the rate it is at now. Also people need to be more
aware of this problem because no one really thinks about how glacier mass loss
would affect our lives. A barrier is that pollution is going to happen no
matter what in the society that we live in today and it would be difficult to
completely change our lifestyles because of glaciers.
I agree, we should definitely try to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions drastically to avoid the mass decrease of glaciers. I have seen other articles detailing how much sea levels could rise in the next 100 years if the glaciers melted and some pictures even showed that most of Florida and at least a half of each state on the east coast would be covered by water. This issue is alarming and needs to be solved before we have to face the consequences of the glaciers decreasing and the other effects of global warming.
ReplyDeleteNeat article! I agree that there is no easy complete solution to this problem. There are small steps that can be taken to limit our impact though. Simple things such as carpooling and using public transit can limit the amount of pollution we release in the atmosphere from transportation. I also agree that rising ocean levels are a huge concern. Major cities such as New Orleans that are built at or below are in serious trouble. If oceans levels continue to rise these cities may be underwater before long. It is very important that we find a way to slow down global warming because we really don’t know how extreme of an impact it can have on the world.
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