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.
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Please: Say it isn’t so!
I was SO counting on Al Girly-boy to be honest and forthright....
(Did my nose just grow?)
:’)
Was that an “affirmative?”
bttt!
I like to search for that pic of him in VN, messing around with a rifle, and the barrel pointing toward his face, and thinking, “what if...”
When you find it, ping me. Or FReepmail me...I REALLY need a good laugh!!
It happens because all of the melting that can affect sea levels occurred over 7000 years ago.
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LOOK OUT TREES, HERE I COME!
BWA-HA-HA-HA!! I love it!! Thanks!
*Ice* to see ya!
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