Green House Effect

Article Title: 2 More Glaciers Gone From National Park


The melting of glaciers around the world has accelerated in recent years. More than 90 percent of the worldwide glaciers are melting. Scientists believe increasing temperatures brought about by higher atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases are the cause of this melting. Glacier National Park is one of the places experiencing this accelerated melting. There were once 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park. A glacier needs to be 25 acres in order to receive a name. Thirty-seven of the glaciers in the park were large enough to be given names. Glacier National Park has recently lost two more named glaciers, Shepard Glacier and Miche Waburn Glacier, to melting. Of the 37 named glaciers only 25 remain. Geological evidence shows that these glaciers have existed for seven thousand years. Unfortunately, scientists predict that several of the park’s largest glaciers will disappear by 2020.


It’s sad to read that glaciers that have existed for thousand of years are melting away. In my opinion, the glaciers in Glacier National Park as well as the glaciers in the Himalayas, the Alps and all around the world will start to disappear due to global warming and the greenhouse effect. Studies have shown that an increase of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere has caused the Earth’s temperature to rise at a faster rate than in the past. This temperature rise is melting the glaciers of the world. I hope this article will make people more aware of the effects of greenhouse gases and its effect on world’s glaciers. It is not too late to save the glaciers. Hopefully, people as well as the world governments will do something to decrease greenhouses gases so that the glaciers will not disappear.