I’ve been to Rotorua.It’s famous for it’s sulfur stench due to volcanic activity.Smells pretty bad.
Yesterday there was a story about climate guru’s struggle to explain the near constant temps in the artic for the past 70 years. Last month it was a struggle to explain increasing snow and ice pack.
Now everyone has ‘science’ to support diametrically opposed conclusions & predictions. Sweet!
It’s the middle of summer in New Zealand...
Remember, the glaciers in Glaciers Natural Park were definitely going to disappear by 2020. The Park Service even had posted a sign saying so. They took the sign down a couple years ago, since the glaciers are still there.
The history of now.
Glaciers have been eroding since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago. And puny man thinks he is causing it, and can stop it.
So what started and stopped the last 4 ice ages?
At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth’s history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!).
Currently, we are in a warm interglacial that began about 11,000 years ago. The last period of glaciation, which is often informally called the “Ice Age,” peaked about 20,000 years ago. At that time, the world was on average probably about 10°F (5°C) colder than today, and locally as much as 40°F (22°C) colder.
What, are people falling through?
Geez it’s summer time in NZ
Wait until the next Krakatoa type event.
All of “man’s warming” wiped away in an instant.
Then there’s Yellowstone.
These morons actually think that everything should remain static while living in a dynamic universe! The only thing that is constant is change.
bunch of idiots!
Glaciers have been advancing and retreating throughout geological history. Human activity has nothing to do with it.
How is a glacier a glacier if it isn’t melting? Isn’t that what glaciers do? If they didn’t, we would be in an ice age.
“The rapid retreat has created a long-term threat to locals who deeply rely on glacier tourism.”
I thought the long-term threat was a rise in sea level.
Learn something new every day./s
Volcanoes, summer, of course glaciers shrink.