Are glaciers dissapearing

Answer 1

No, there are still glaciers in California, Washington, Montana, Colorado...pretty much everywhere they have been, just a bit smaller. A disproportionate amount of sea level rise in recent decades has been due to the melt of such glaciers (i.e. midlatitude alpine glaciers) rather than the more media-friendly polar ice sheets.

Answer 2

Yes.

According to Wikipedia, there remain small portions of the continental ice sheets. These are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island. They are remnants of an ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch.

The term "ice age" technically applied to a long term period of temperature reduction and glacial formation that lasts millions of years or longer. We are still in the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation that has lasted 2.6 million years thus far. Even in an long ice age there are warmer and colder periods. The colder periods are called glacial periods, the warmer periods interglacials. These glacial and interglacial periods last ten or twenty thousand years. The earth is currently in a warmer, interglacial period and we have been for about 11,000 years.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have survived many cycles of warming and cooling during the last 2.6 million years of the current Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation. Whether global warming now will end them and end the ice age and end the current warmer interglacial period is unknown. If past pattern and the current ice age continues, we would expect to see the end of this warm interglacial period and the beginning of a new glacial period within the next thousand years. Whether the earth will remain warm or enter the next glacial period can not now be predicted and is complicated by the effects of global warming.

Answer 3

Yes, glaciers around the world are melting at an accelerated rate due to global warming. This process leads to a significant loss in glacier mass and volume, impacting sea level rise and altering freshwater availability in certain regions.

Answer 4

Yes, but it is at a normal rate that this world has seen multiple different times. It is not uncommon for our planet to warm up and cool down over thousands of years.

Answer 5

Yes, there are alot of glaciers still in the world! Many are in decline however, which is why there is concern about melting glaciers