Mount Hood glaciers melting

AP/SignOnSandiego.com ^ | March 27, 2006

[freedumb2003]

Well, I didn't get in the first "Bush's Fault" but I am the first to say:

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

[randog]

Funny. The last show on Mt. Hood I saw blamed the melting glaciers on activity in the magma chamber.

Oh, yeah--Hood is a volcano, one of those things that spew out "greenhouse gases".

[McBuff]

Keith Jackson?. . .FUM BLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE!!

[Number57]

That's required bathroom reading in my house ;)

[Intolerant in NJ]

...glaciers have shrunk by an average of more than 30 percent since the beginning of the last century...the average temperature did rise about one degree during the last century - during the first half of the period - they're probably "retreating" less rapidly now than they were fifty years ago......

[Conservomax]

No, but being in a ski lodged in 85+ weather is a little depressing.

I loved oregon though.

The Columbia river valley is amazing.

[SteveMcKing]

Got a URL for that? If you do, please post. Thanks in advance.

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/volcano-review/fire-and-ice.shtml

[Williams]

Find it interesting that all these measurements involving melting that started about 100 year ago. I assume that's a trend from before the massive production of greenhouse gases.

[Mike Darancette]

Why is no one bothering to tell us about this?

It's a lot warmer in OR than WA.

America’s youngest glacier is also its fastest growing glacier. Scientists estimate that the thickness of the glacier has increased by nearly 50 feet per year. Not only is it growing thicker, it has been advancing as much as 135 feet per year.

Shows you how fast glaciers can grow.

[Jackson Brown]

If France is retreating them someone must be on the advance...


Not necessarily, remember the long established French doctrine of preemptive surrender.

[quantim]

Oh, how I miss him calling the great Big Ten games on ABC, blimp overhead. "Ohio State about to lose to Michigan..."

He can't be replaced in our lifetimes. Although he is 'retired' nothing makes a game like Mr. Jackson.

[Army Air Corps]

LOL!

Now, if I had been enjoying a beverage, then you would owe a new screen to me.

[FreedomNotSafety]

Now I can relax. My science teacher said we were about to enter a new ice age. Since i live near a city named "Moraine" for its large glacial deposits I was quite worried.

Of course my kids never understood my angst since they were screweled in Global warming.

[quantim]

I assume that's a trend from before the massive production of greenhouse gases.

Actually, it's from landfills with an excess of decomposing organic materials, mostly buggy whips I'm told. /sarc/humor

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Nice pics. Multnomah Falls and Vista House. You like?

Remember, all this and we have NO SALES TAX here. Great for fixed incomes. I am hoping more conservatives will retire here, and we can take BACK our state!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Find it interesting that all these measurements involving melting that started about 100 year ago...a competent scientist trying to prove how destructive greenhouse gasses have been would give us measurements of melting across the first half of the last century in comparison to those across the last half to attempt to demonstrate dramatically increased melting - I bet it'll never happen......

[vetvetdoug]

I was thinking that Mt. Hood was losing ice because Texans were having a cocktail party near it.

[SideoutFred]

ping

[kabar]

Check out the link in my post #10 and check the list of expanding glaciers in the US.

Check out this link: The beginning of a New Glacier Forming in the Crater of Mount St. Helens.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Don't worry. When Mt. Hood blows, there won't be any glaciers left. Just like Mt. St. Helens doesn't have glaciers anymore.