Great Mountain Living Near the Last Glaciers?

As people living in alpine areas throughout the world have noticed, the
glaciers are melting.  Actually, they have been melting at a slow rate
for many centuries.  It was not, however, until the industrial revolution
that the pace of melting began to increase.  From glaciers with a long
recorded history, a record of melting traces the beginnings of increased
melting to about 1750 when the first industrial coal-driven applications
were being devised half a world away.

The entire ecosystem near these formerly glaciated areas has changed.
Areas at the top of the world were also the first to feel the effects
of a damaged ozone layer.  This led to increases in rates of skin cancers
among mountain people world wide, but especially those near the poles.
They are also the first places on earth that noticed something odd about
honeybee behavior, as it was first reported in the mid 1990s – long
before colony collapse disorder in North America.

And you thought it might be somewhat romantic to live in the mountains
near some of the last remaining glaciers?  Maybe for now, but not for
much longer if we can’t get a grip on climate changes.

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