Posted on 04/25/2010 9:54:53 AM PDT by DoctorBulldog
The recent news release concerning the melting glaciers in Glacier National Park seems somewhat deceptive. I am a National Park Service retiree. I started my career in Glacier National Park in 1963 and attended my first park staff meeting in September of 1963.
At that meeting the United States Geological Survey staff presented the results of their annual glacier monitoring program and reported that the park glaciers were continuing to shrink. They assured the park staff that the glaciers would eventually disappear, but would not make any time predictions.
The park superintendent thanked the USGS for their effort and took the opportunity to remind the staff that the park was named Glacier because of the park topography that was formed by the action of continental glaciers thousands of years ago, not because glaciers existed in the park. It was understood and accepted by the National Park Service and the United States Geological Survey that the park glaciers were a remnant of the last ice age and would eventually melt.
It is disconcerting to hear government professionals now blame the ice melting on anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming.
The USGS wondered 50 years ago why glaciers remained in the park when the mountains north and south of the park at the same elevations did not have glaciers. The USGS of 50 years ago also would not have claimed that the disappearance of glaciers would result in uncontrolled wildfire threats. A review of the hydrology involved is needed.
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Now, the USGS is feeding us a bunch of AGW BS, claiming that the glaciers are melting because of man's activities.
And, whereas they once wouldn't put a time frame on the glaciers' melting, they now jump on the sinking ship that is AGW, and proclaim the park's glaciers will be gone by 2030:
www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/research/glacier_model.htm
What a bunch of freakin' ecotards!
The fact that mountains north of the park don’t have glaciers anymore should be enough to knock the warmists on their rearends. Why haven’t the Park’s glaciers melted too. Another “inconvenient fact” that they choose to hide from the public. There have been other mountains around the world that have been losing their snowcaps for hundreds of years well before the dawn of the industrial revolution. I believe Kilimanjaro is one of those.
Glaciers are supposed to melt.
Just like they always have been since the end of the last ice age.
when glaciers melt in volcanic regions, it is not because of SUV’s.
Yes, at one time Manhattan was under 2 miles of ice.
It is too bad no one stopped global warming before it thawed.
The greatest scandal of all, IMO, is that the "respectable" scientific establishment has allowed it to proceed almost uncontested for the past 30 years.
What’s the status of the glaciers now, BTW. I was there in ‘65, haven’t been back since ( sob).
It’s another taxation ploy. Marching orders issued are followed by any government funded or related entity ie NASA, EPA, windmill manufactures, etc.....The talking points don’t have to make cents just dollars.
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