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Posted on 06/14/2009 10:08:28 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures. Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.
"We're not sure why this happens," said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. "But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change."
Viewed at a safe distance on cruise boats or the wooden observation deck just beyond the glacier's leading edge, Perito Moreno's jagged surface radiates a brilliant white in the strong Patagonian sun. Submerged sections glow deep blue.
And when the wind blows in a cloud cover, the 3-mile-wide (5 kilometer) glacier seems to glow from within as the surrounding mountains and water turn a meditative gray.
Every few years, Perito Moreno expands enough to touch a point of land across Lake Argentina, cutting the nation's largest freshwater lake in half and forming an ice dam as it presses against the shore.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The same reason other glaciers do what they do? Natural forces beyond our control maybe?
Ignoramuses!
Didn’t get the memo?
Must not have.
Advancing glaciers aren’t very progressive.
Yet more evidence, as if it were needed, of the ignorance of journalists. Glaciers grow when snow does NOT melt. Rivers grow from snowmelt, not glaciers.
This can’t be correct. Al Gore told me so.
Some glaciers are just refusing to go along with Algore’s environmental scam and hoax.
In other news Chicago records coldest May on record. ManBearPig and his minions are good.
Kid, on an outing with his Dad...
Kid: “Dad, where did all these rounded rocks come from?”
Dad: “Thousands of years ago, they were picked up by a glacier and dumped here.”
Kid: “Where did the glacier go?”
Dad: “Back to get more rocks.”
“one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures”
Wow! tough ice eh!!!
How exactly does ice withstand higher temps?? Ice melts at 32 degrees No!!!!!
Idiots. Ice doesn’t form when it’s warm, but they’ll believe anything they’re told by the prophets of the new religion.
Amazing, a glacier that has been stable for more than 100 years has started growing. And “scientists” don’t understand it.
Perhaps it is getting colder, hmmmm...?
EVERY evidence of man-made GW is anecdotal, and relative to locational context, not systemic.
For instance, The anecdotal concern about Antarctica is the calving of glaciers in the western Antarctic; meanwhile the depth of ice and snow in the interior and on the eastern shores continues to thicken.
Man-made global warming is a religion founded in political science more than climate science.
It is on of those things that can be used both ways.
If the glacier recedes, it is due to global warming.
If the glacier progresses, it is due to global warming.
Guess that glacier didn’t get the memo!
More ice means water is freezing, not melting. What CAN’T the scientists conclude from this?
Global warming = global leftist propaganda.
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