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Melting Pace of Glaciers Is Accelerating, Report Says
An Article from the New York Times

Claim: The destruction of glaciers due to climate change seems to be unending and as the temperatures continue the potential loss of glaciers presents newer more serious problems.

Evidence:
1. "The long term trend [of year to year changes in the overall mass of ice locked in moving frozen rivers] was clearly toward a warming world with less mountian ice - and related water troubles, including both floods and shortages, from the Andes to the Himalayas."
2. "Loss of glaciers would take away a summertime source of river water, drinking water, and hydroelectric power..."
3. "Millions of people depend on the runoff from mountian snow and ice in the warm seasons, climate change is going to make that runoff disappear."

Warrant to evidence:
1. This claim is warranted by facts, long term trends show warmer temperatures and decreasing amounts of ice.
2. This claim takes a fact, glaciers are melting, and then shows what effects this will have. Because it is based off fact the prediction of what will most likely happen is credible and reasonable.
3. Again this claim is based off of the fact that highly populated countries such as South Asia rely on runoff for their main source of water.