1/4 to 1/2 of Glaciers will Melt by 2100, raising Sea Level, As our burning of Fossil Fuels Heats Earth

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - A new multi-author study in Nature finds that the world's 200,000 glaciers are melting at an increasingly alarming rate. If all of them melted, it would raise sea level by over a foot, a disaster for coastal communities around the world. And it isn't just a matter of coasts -- the melting of the glaciers causes mudslides and flash floods at higher inland elevations, as well as upsetting land and marine ecosystems. Glacier melt is one of the ways we know that the earth is being heated up by humans burning coal, fossil gas and