Do we know enough about glaciers?

We are beginning to understand that high-elevation glaciers are even more sensitive to warming.

Glaciers all over the world are melting. This fact is irrevocable . The fundamental goal of studying glaciers is to calculate how much they are melting, and most importantly, how much longer they will exist. The future of these glaciers is particularly important for the future of water availability in the downstream community and associated disasters from the gradual melting of these landforms. Since glaciers serve as barometers for the changing climate—generally shrinking as the climate warms and growing as the climate cools—understanding changes in glaciers is critically important. However, the more we learn about glaciers, the more we realise how complex the situation really is and that there is still much we do not understand.