Chelsea Jobe
10-25-09
4:51pm
In Argentina there is a glacier called the Perito Moreno glacier. This glacier is in one of the few ice fields in the world that is not being effected by global warming. Rising global temperatures have had no effect on this ice field. The article says that the field is nourished by Andean snowmelt and that the glacier in the ice field is still growing despite global warming and rising temperatures. It even creates new icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a big frigidly cold lake. It has basically remained the same size since people started to measure it each year to see if there was a difference. A glacialist who is interviewed for the article says that he doesn't even know why this happens, but he knows that not all glaciers around the world melt the same way and respond the same way to climate change.
I think that this is great because it will show us that not all the glaciers around the world are going to melt within a recent time span of one another. We do have time to try to stop global warming, more time hopefully than I thought. The fact that's it's in Argentina also strikes me as odd. I wouldn't expect a glacier to stay the same size there after a decade like it has. i just wish all the glaciers and ice fields had this much trouble melting.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/wireStory?id=7839460
2 comments:
I was surprised to even know that there were glaciers in Argentina. I would expect though that any glacier there would melt relatively fast. This is very interesting.
I think one of the coolest aspects about stuff like this is the sheer size of things. My brain doesn't really comprehend what a 200-foot wall of water or a 3-mile ice cube would be like in person.
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