People can argue about climate change, whether it’s happening or not. One thing is certain, the glaciers around the world have been sorely affected by the warming planet.
For the first time, Swedish glaciers began disappearing in 2024. During this period, Europe endured the warmest temperatures that the continent had ever experienced – which drastically increased the rate that the glaciers were melting.
In the year 2000, researchers built a high-monitor satellite to watch the record shattering temperatures that began to rise around that time. Although melting of these glaciers, due to climate change, had steadily begun to accelerate, some glaciers began to melt as early as the 1950s. Because of rising temperatures and the recent absence of icebergs, many neighboring continents are at severe risk of rising sea levels and drowned landscapes and flooded areas.
The disappearance of glaciers impacts global warming, which could devastate life for billions of people, as well as the plants and animals alike living in these areas on the edge of destruction. Most people — because they want to continue living life the way they always have–don´t want to acknowledge many of the root causes, greenhouse gas emissions, which increases atmospheric and ocean temperatures, melting the sea ice from the surface and beneath the water.
To understand and solve the problems of melting icebergs, we first must address these issues that we ourselves caused.
