PHY 3-2 Climate Change & Glaciers
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Glaciers can be one of many indications of global climate
change. Glaciers are important indicators of climate change
because they exhibit physical changes such as growth,
contraction, advancement, or receding. They also indicate
obvious temperature and precipitation fluctuations. Glaciers
losing more ice than they can hold adds more water to the
oceans, causing sea levels to rise. Small glaciers respond more
swiftly to climate change, delivering nearly the same amount of
water to the seas every year as the ice sheets of Greenland and
Antarctica combined.
(
Climate Change Indicators: Glaciers | US
EPA
, 2023). This is only one effect from glaciers that indicate
climate change, but it is a major factor of it.
Climate is the average weather over a period of time,
including typical and extreme weather. Climate change is studied
to identify trends and cycles of variability, such as changes in
wind patterns, ocean temperatures, and precipitation. (
Arctic
Weather and Climate
, n.d.). North American glacier change has
significant socioeconomic impacts, including global sea level
change, tourism disruption, natural hazard risk, fishery effects,
and water resource alteration. Monitoring results from the longest
continuous record of North American glacier mass balance,
providing insights into climate-glacier connections at multiple
scales. (
Glaciers and Climate Project | U.S. Geological Survey
,
2022). Using the knowledge of what climate is with what the
change in glaciers can cause help to give a clearer picture of how
glaciers are an indicator of climate change. When looking into the
past we can use records of climate cycles to indicate glaciers and
how they corresponded to the changing climate. Using studies of
the seafloor sediments show glacial and interglacial cycles and
how they have occurred for about ever 100,000 years. (Lutgens &
Tarbuck, 2021).
Taking into consideration that there was a study done on the
928 articles on climate change and how not one of them
disagreed about concluding that climate change was caused by
human activity, I do not think that the scientists could be wrong.
Scientific articles are created and reviewed by many people, all of
whom are educated well, it does not give me a reason to doubt
for a second that that many people are capable of being wrong
about such a large-scale issue. (
Climate Change Deniers
, n.d.).
References
Arctic Weather and climate
. (n.d.). National Snow and Ice Data Center.
https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/arctic-weather-and-climate
Climate change deniers
. (n.d.). David Suzuki Foundation.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170806035338/http://davidsuzuki.org/issues/climate-
change/science/climate-change-basics/climate-change-deniers/
Climate change indicators: Glaciers | US EPA
. (2023, July 25). US EPA.
https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-
glaciers#:~:text=Glaciers%20are%20important%20as%20an,changes%20in
%20temperature%20and%20precipitation
.
Glaciers and Climate Project | U.S. Geological Survey
. (2022, February 18).
https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-research-and-development-
program/science/glaciers-and-climate-project
Lutgens, F. K., & Tarbuck, E. J. (2021).
Foundations of Earth Science
(9th ed.). Pearson
Education (US).
https://mbsdirect.vitalsource.com/books/9780135851609
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