This paper will focus on the Patagonian Ice Field and how global warming is affecting the glaciers as well as the affect the glaciers have and will have on the rest of the world. To begin I first must explain what a glacier is. A glacier is an immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of continual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over a large surface area, as in Greenland. They are formed over many years when snow is incessantly compressed into an ice sheet and eventually thickened. They range in size from being as small as a soccer field to massive ice sheets that are the same size as some continents. They store around 75% of the world’s fresh water. Glaciers are usually left over from
