Will glaciers outlive Al Gore?

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[Old Rocks]

Links, or else be named for the liar you are. 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park when it was created. Today, less than 25, and by 2030, likely 0.

Andes’ Tropical Glaciers Going Fast, May Soon Be Gone

LONDON — The glaciers of the tropical Andes have shrunk by between 30 and 50 percent in 30 years and many will soon disappear altogether, cutting off the summer water supply for millions of people, according to scientists studying the region’s climate.

Their findings are particularly significant because glaciers in the tropics, 99 percent of which are in the Andes, are regarded as among the most sensitive indicators of climate change on the planet, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The Pastoruri glacier, located in Northern Peru in the Andes.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons

In the Andes glaciers contribute to irrigation, hydroelectricity generation, and water supply. For example, 15 percent of the water consumed in La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, comes from glaciers, a figure that doubles in the summer. The region, with 3.5 million people, is heavily dependent on melt water for its survival (and see our story of 25 January, Andean glaciers show record melting).

Comparison photographs show the dramatic retreat of Anderson Glacier.

1936: Asahel Curtis
2004: Matt Hoffman, Portland State Univ.

 

[Crick]

This is a flat out lie.

 

[Billy_Bob]

And old fraud forgets the glaciers that have returned and many that have grown... Cant have those facts seen when he is trying to spout a political narrative and lies..

 

[Old Rocks]

Top 7 disappearing glaciers

Top 7 disappearing glaciers
Here for 10,000 years ... gone in 10. Seven glaciers that are melting before our eyes. Some photos (and a few charts).

7. The Matterhorn

c. 1960 & today, Getty Images

Many often wonder why Europeans get so hot and bothered about climate change. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they are in direct, daily contact with one very sobering reality — their ice is vanishing.

European glaciers have been some of the hardest hit by climate change. Since the first half of the 19th century, about two-thirds of the ice cover was lost in the Pyrenees with a marked acceleration after 1980 (Chueca et al. 2005 via: UNEP) and in the Alps, home to the world famous Matterhorn, nearly half the glaciers have disappeared since record keeping began.

Often called the "water tower" of Europe, the Alps contain 40 percent of Europe's fresh water supply. The dramatic disappearance of ice on the Matterhorn last year has prompted the need for the border between Switzerland and Italy to be redrawn.

6. Alaska

Muir Glacier, 1941

Muir Glacier, 2004

It's always struck me as a bit ironic that Alaska, home to several of the most famous gubernatorial climate skeptics (including Sarah Palin) is also home to some of the most dramatic examples of climate change. The astonishing recession of the massive Muir glacier is just one example among dozens (see graphs below), causing many scientists to warn of earthquakes triggered by tectonic plates with suddenly lightened loads.

2. The Andes

Dr. Edson Ramirez/AP; Universidad Mayor de San Andres

The Chacaltaya glacier, once the highest ski resorts on earth, has completely vanished in the relative blink of an eye. A study on Bolivian glaciers in 1998 predicted the glacier’s disappearance by the year 2015, a claim that at the time was dismissed as overly dramatic. But early last year, it was officially announced that the glacier ”... no longer exists,” an event which threatens both water and power supplies in the Andean region.

Melting has tripled in the last decade, and it is expected that several adjoining clusters could have less than 30 years to survive.

1. Glacier National Monument

Glacial National Park — 1938 & 2005

Based on the latest reports, Montana may have to think of a new name for its famous Glacier National Monument. Of the 38 square-mile area once covered by glaciers, less than 25 percent remains. Researchers believe that by the year 2030, the vast majority of ice in Glacier National Park will be gone unless current climate patterns are reversed.

These are just a few of the glaciers that are rapidly disappearing. And they were there for at least the last 10,000 years.

 

[Old Rocks]

'Soon they will be gone': World's highest glaciers under threat

It's the world's highest tropical glacial field and scientists predict it will be gone within 40 years.

In the process, it is likely to deliver water shortages and catastrophic floods to towns in the Peruvian Andes.

More than 2,500 glaciers slice through the mountain peaks of Peru. Around 660 of them lie in the country's highest mountain range, the UNESCO listed Cordillera Blanca.

The United Nations body warns the glacial retreat threatens the livelihoods of 2 million people, living in the valleys below and the desert coastal cities that rely on the glaciers' water.

"In the last 40 years the glaciers have retreated at least 34 per cent," Huaraz based Glaciologist and Civil Engineer Cesar Portocarrero said.

"Soon they will be gone.

We are looking at catastrophic situations for these people.

 

[RollingThunder]

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You stupid fucking lying-thru-your-teeth troll!

Thefederalistpapers.org is a hard core far-far-far-rightwingnut propaganda outlet that mostly contains recognized hate speech, discrimination, and just plain factually untrue information.

You must be a very gullible retard!

In the real world.......

It is a fact that MOST of the world's glaciers (over 90%) are shrinking and disappearing....but not all of them. Some few are temporarily growing or remaining stable for a time because they are situated in a way so that they are getting much more rainfall due to the prevailing wind patterns bringing in more snowfall at high elevations because of the increased ocean and air temperatures and the consequent increased atmospheric water vapor levels.

Here's an article filled with scientific facts about glaciers from a source you should trust - Fox News.....

Mysterious California Glaciers Keep Growing Despite Warming
Fox News
Published July 09, 2008
Associated Press - Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only known glaciers in the continental U.S. that are growing.

Reaching more than 14,000 feet above sea level, Mount Shasta is one of the state's tallest peaks, dominating the landscape of high plains and conifer forests in far Northern California.

With glaciers retreating in the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains and elsewhere in the Cascades, Mount Shasta - the southernmost volcano in the Cascade range - is actually benefiting from changing weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean.

"When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking," said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team studying Shasta's glaciers. "These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean."

Climate change has cut the number of glaciers at Montana's Glacier National Park from 150 to 26 since 1850, and some scientists project there will be none left within a generation.

Lonnie Thompson, a glacier expert at Ohio State University, has projected the storied snows at Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro might disappear by 2015.

But for Shasta, about 270 miles north of San Francisco, scientists say a warming Pacific Ocean means more moist air.

On the mountain, precipitation falls as snow, adding to the glaciers enough to overcome a 1.8 degree Fahrenheit rise in temperature in the last century, scientists say.

"It's a bit of an anomaly that they are growing, but it's not to be unexpected," said Ed Josberger, a glaciologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Tacoma, Wash.

By comparison, the glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, more than 500 miles south of Mount Shasta, are exposed to warmer summer temperatures and are retreating.

The Sierra's 498 ice formations - glaciers and ice fields - have shrunk by about half their size over the past 100 years, said Andrew Fountain, a geology professor at Portland State University. He inventoried glaciers in the continental U.S. as part of a federal initiative.

He said Shasta's seven glaciers are the only ones scientists have identified as getting larger.

Glaciologists say most glaciers in Alaska and Canada are retreating, too, but there are too many to study them all.

Although Mount Shasta's glaciers are growing, researchers say the 4.7 billion cubic feet of ice on its flanks could be gone by 2100.

For the glaciers to remain their current size, Shasta would have to receive 20 percent more snowfall for every 1.8-degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature, Tulaczyk said.

The Shasta glaciers have been advancing since the end of a drought in the early 20th century. The mountain's smallest glaciers - named Konwakiton, Watkins and Mud Creek - have more than doubled in length since 1950.

Hikers seeking to cross Shasta's glaciers - marked with crevasses as deep as 100 feet - say they are much larger than the boundaries drawn on geological maps.

"I noticed I was traveling down farther than the maps were showing it," said Eric White, a U.S. Forest Service ranger who has climbed Shasta for 23 years.

Four glaciers at Washington's Mount Rainier are staying about the same size. Those glaciers - shielded from the sun on the mountain's north and east sides - have received just enough snow to keep them from shrinking.

The added ice on Mount Shasta might be good for the state's water supplies. Hydrologists believe the glaciers feed springs and aquifers, though they say it's unclear precisely how the water travels underground.

Until recently, the same phenomenon that is benefiting Shasta's glaciers was feeding glacier growth in southern Norway and Sweden, the New Zealand Alps and northern Pakistan, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In each area, scientists say, more snowfall temporarily offset warming temperatures in the 1990s and early 2000s. But rising temperatures since then have begun to shrink the ice.

Climate change is causing roughly 90 percent of the world's mountain glaciers to shrink, said Thompson, the Ohio State glacier expert.

"Best that we keep our eye on the big picture," Thompson said in an e-mail about Shasta's unique position. "The picture points unfortunately to massive loss of ice on land, which has huge implications for future sea level rise."

Global forecasts show temperatures warming from 2 degrees to 11.5 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century if no major efforts are undertaken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

At that rate, California's snowpack and its remaining glaciers are among the most vulnerable of its natural resources.

 

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[Old Rocks]

Silly cartoons, the last refuge of failed intellects. The subject is the number of glaciers worldwide then and now.