Global Warming has struck again, this time the same victim, glaciers, but in a more significant way than before. Glaciers have lost so many layers of ice caps that scientist have found plants from over 40,000 years ago. The climate change has produced record breaking glacial retreats, even to the extent where the Canadian Arctic may be facing the hottest century in over 115,000 years. Scientists have found around 48 plants from 30 ice layers and have used these plants to measure how long they have been under ice sheets.
The article was written by Rosie McCall on January 28, 2018. Previously, I had known that global warming posed a large threat to glaciers, but the fact that there are ice layers that are completely gone and that are disappearing at such an alarming rate is very eye opening. We can relate this to the White Chuck Glacier and how over time from 1850 to 1940 it completely thinned and from 1950 to 2005 separated into three different termini, one of which disappeared.
https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-arctic-glacial-melts-reveal-land-not-seen-in-more-than-40000-years-2019-1
It's terrifying to think about how much the planet could change in the next few years
ReplyDeleteHonestly , it really is and if we don’t change our ways we could speed up that process
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