Argentine Glacier Advances Despite Global Warming

AP Report ^ | June 14, 2009

[Steelfish]

Argentine glacier advances despite global warming

By JEANNETTE NEUMANN

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – 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.

The water on one side of the dam surges against the glacier, up to 200 feet (60 meters) above lake level, until it breaks the ice wall with a thunderous crash, drowning the applause of hundreds of tourists.

[GlennBeck08]

LoL.

[FormerACLUmember]

Argentine Glacier Advances Despite Global Warming

Translation from Psychotic Liberalese:

Argentine Glacier Advances due to Global Cooling

[count-your-change]

Maybe the cold Lake Superior is masking the warming that is taking place, try wading on the beach again and tell me you can't feel that 1/10th (or was it 1/100th) degree increase of warmth over last year.

I've heard the people living close to Lake Superior are born wearing wool “long johns”, is that true?

[T. Jefferson]

Global Cooling deniers. They’re everywhere.

[GlennBeck08]

I’ve heard the people living close to Lake Superior are born wearing wool “long johns”, is that true?

All but the wool part, at least for me. Mine are polypropelene. (sp)

[GlennBeck08]

forgot the ;) at the end of previous post.

[T. Jefferson]

Nasa link showing 10 years of global cooling.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.D.txt

[count-your-change]

As you see, I don’t get paid for dumb statements..I do it for free!

[GlennBeck08]

Same here. Capitialism and my stupidity would’ve made me a poor man.

[count-your-change]

Aw man! You had me there for a minute. I should’ve known, polypropylene, if you can't spell it, you don't wear it!

[GlennBeck08]

I am not all inclusive. I dislike the letter “y” so I figured I’d forget it. ;)

[count-your-change]

At least you still has u and without u and y you is just o and that’s a lot like 0 which is nohing so y is still important to u.

and no I can’t say that three times in a row.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Found here:
http://www.friendsofscience.org