at the rate we are going now how long will it take for the glaciers to melt?

Answer 1

They are already doing so.

Many are gone completely, some will be around for some time yet. What is scary is that because of political pressure, all the suggestions lean to the most conservative, least dramatic, most optimistic possibilities that can be imagined.

Experience shows that the most optimistic and most pessimistic expectations are rarely what actually happens.
Ironically that means that the pessimists will usually get good news, and the optimists will always be forever dissapointed.

Unfortunately as actuality is closed down upon, that fact that all the projections were optimistic, means we can expect the reality to be worse and perhaps a lot worse.

Answer 2

See this website:

http://www.iceagenow.com/List_of_Expanding_Glaciers.htm

There are over 67,000 glaciers on the earth and many of the smaller ones are melting.......maybe, but the Greenland and Antarctic glaciers are expanding and they contain about 80% of the water in all of the glaciers on earth. The average temp. in Antarctica is -57 Deg. F BELOW ZERO. The world temp would have to warm by about 90 Deg. F before its glaciers melt.
So relax.....it can't happen, I don't care what some scaremongering scientist who really wants to be a politician says.

Answer 3

be totally gone in our life time if this rate continues