The Future and Grinnell Glacier

  

  Today in class we learned more about our future and about Grinnell Glacier. Grinnell Glacier is at the Glacier National Park in Montana. The altitude average is around 7,000 feet. The glacier has obviously retreated substantially if you even seen pictures in different years. Between 1966 and 2005, it lost almost 40% of its acreage. Our teacher was talking about how this is a big deal because the water has to go somewhere and that somewhere is the ocean. If the ice and Glaciers keep melting very quickly in the years then the ice will melt into the oceans and then the oceans will get higher. If that happens then the borders will have big problems and the people who live there will too. Scientist say that all the glaciers in the park including Grinnell will disappear by the year 2030. This is not just the sun fault but it’s our fault too. We are making the greenhouse effect happen too much and that’s why the glaciers are melting faster. My teacher was talking about ways to help but why nobody is doing anything about it. He said that there are electric cars and that if more and more people use them then it would help. The thing is that one they are so expensive and two that the oil and car companies don’t won’t us to change to those cars. If we did, then they will go out of business and we would have to have new places to charge our cars. Another problem is that it is harder to find places to charge your electric cars because most of the world uses gas. Over all in class I learned so much today and thought harder about our future.