Due to global warming, glaciers all over the world have been melting for at least the last 50 years, and the rate of melting has been speeding up with each passing year. Glaciers are large sheets of snow and ice that are found on land all year long. Glaciers are found all over the world. Warmer temperatures cause glaciers to melt faster than they can accumulate new snow, as a result, we are losing these valuable land masses. Melting glaciers are also causing massive rises in sea levels. Global sea level has already risen by 4 to 8 inches, and the pace of sea level rise just keeps getting faster. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that sea levels could rise 10 to 23 inches by 2100. You can see in the pictures on this post how they have changed. When President Taft created Glacier National Park in 1910, it held over 150 glaciers. Since then, the number of glaciers has decreased to less than 30, and most of those have shrunk in area by two-thirds. I can run you statistic after statistic, fact after fact, but really, anyone can see that global warming IS causing the ice caps and glaciers to melt. Some scientists see undeniable evidence that Earth has been getting warmer. Most believe that humans are the cause, by the burning of fossil fuels, which causes a massive buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, have influenced this warming trend. In the past decade, scientists have documented record-high annual surface temperatures and have been seeing other signs of change all over the planet. Chasing Ice is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of nature photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey to publicize the effects of climate change. This video shows a time lapse video taken by Balog showing the melting of a glacier.

Hopefully this will make you think twice next time someone wants to say global warming isn’t real

Crazy Facts

After existing for many millennia, the northern section of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica -- a section larger than the state of Rhode Island -- collapsed between January and March 2002, disintegrating at a rate that astonished scientists. Since 1995, the ice shelf's area has shrunk by 40 percent.

According to NASA, the polar ice cap is now melting at the alarming rate of nine percent per decade. Arctic ice thickness has decreased 40 percent since the 1960s.

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http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/fcons/fcons4.asp

http://www.epa.gov/climatestudents/impacts/signs/glaciers.html