Climate Change on Ice Glaciers
Climate change has been seen to have many effects; most of the known effects are the effects climate change has on ice glaciers. Ice glaciers are made up of snow compressed into large ice masses over many years; thoughts of remnants from the last ice age. Some of the ice glaciers are small like football fields and others are hundreds of kilometers long. Ten percent of the world’s total land area is filled with these glaciers; the big areas are Antarctica, Greenland, and the Canadian arctic. While only ten percent of our land is filled with ice, during the ice age 32% of our land was filled and 30% of our ocean as well. In 1894 William Ogilvie photographed a nice picture of the Mendenhall glacier a photograph of a landscape where you are able to see a very pleasing glacier. In 2008 Gary Brasch photographed the same landscape but the beautiful glacier that was seen in 1894 no longer was as visible. The last measurement for this glacier was in 1911 and since then it h...