Opinion: Why a world without glaciers is more terrifying than you realize
We’ve all read about glaciers in peril: pieces of ice, the size of continents, breaking off Antarctica or melting away in the Arctic Ocean near the North Pole, leaving polar bears starving and clutching onto remnants of crumbling sea ice. But what do such tales mean for people in temperate places? Here’s one answer: Learning about glacier vulnerability can guide our fight to stop climate change. … There is still plenty of water left to melt in climate-vulnerable glaciers. … If all remaining glacier ice melts the sea would rise by about 230 feet!
-Written by Jorge Daniel Taillant, founder of the Center for Human Rights and Environment and currently climate justice policy adviser at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C.