Melting glaciers adding to world's greenhouse gas problem - CBS News
Melting glaciers adding to world's greenhouse gas problem - CBS New York
Melting glaciers adding to world's greenhouse gas problem
All week, we're learning about changes to our climate here by taking you to the world's northernmost and fastest warming community -- Svalbard, Norway. While the United States works to cut its greenhouse gases, melting of glaciers is adding to the problem. David Schechter shows us what's deep underneath. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/4a78E8c
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.