Posted on 06/10/2019 4:03:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
While this may not produce more than a few ripples on the pond of the global warming discussion, I wanted to point everyone to a great article from our friend Jeff Dunetz that touches on this subject. For some time now (dating back to the Obama administration) there were signs posted at Glacier National Park warning tourists that they would need to snap their glacier selfies quickly because the massive ice formations would all be gone by 2020. Well, it’s nearly the middle of 2019 and not only are the aforementioned glaciers not gone, most of them are actually growing.
With that in mind, the signs had to go. But they’ve been replaced with some new ones that are equally alarmist, but a bit less specific.
SHHHHHHHH!!! The National Park Service has quietly removed all the signs put up by the Obama administration that told visitors that the glaciers would “all be gone” by the year 2020 due to global warming… because… it’s 2019, and the glaciers are all still there and have been growing.
Glacier National Park quietly removed a sign at its visitor center saying the glaciers will disappear by 2020 which were originally placed because former President Obama believed the predictions pushed by the left’s climate change hypothesis.
According to federal officials, several years in a row of high snowfall and cold temperatures totally obliterated a computer model that authorities relied on to claim that the glaciers would all be melted by 2020, Daily Caller reported.
This signs had obviously become something of an embarrassment by this point, as Jeff points out, so they were “quietly” removed and replaced. He also points us to a good explanation from an expert in the field as to why the glaciers stubbornly continue to not only exist but seasonally expand at times.
This year (2018) it quickly became clear that the glaciers have grown substantially in recent years. A startling example is seen at the Jackson Glacier overlook on the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The government has erected a sign with two photos: (1) the Glacier in 1911; and (2) the Glacier in 2009. The display shows the Jackson Glacier melting away to perhaps 10 or 20 percent of its 1911 size. But visitors to the marker in 2018 are able to look up above in the distance and see that the Jackson Glacier has grown significantly since 2009. The Glacier’s growth may be as much as 30 or more percent since 2009.
As I’ve said here repeatedly, I personally do believe the data showing the overall climate is undergoing a significant warming trend. But it started at the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1800s and applied to the entire planet. (Not exactly the era of massive industrialization.) I also believe that billions of humans impact the planet’s environment, though to what extent remains uncertain. The planet has demonstrated that it’s capable of freezing into a snowball and warming to the point where not a single particle of ice exists anywhere, over an over again for as long as we can study the geological record.
So are the glaciers receding or expanding? The answer obviously changes every few years. But the warning signs prompted by some of Al Gore’s predictions demonstrate the peril of assuming that we have all of the answers in such a complicated debate. Read the rest of Jeff’s post. He has a ton of good background material above and beyond the obvious humorous value of the changes in signage at Glacier National Park.
Well, duh! Everybody knows we have TWELVE years to go, not ONE year. I’m sure they are busy making new signs saying “Glaciers will be gone by 2030.”
Wearing a sweatshirt in mid June in southern Michigan. It feels like autumn.
Will those glaciers still be here when we all die in 11.57 years?
Leave the old signs up. Just cross through 2020 and keep making revisions.
A one degree rise in global temperatures will not melt glaciers. How about a lack of precipitation as in a drought?
Yep, 60 miles north of DeBlasio City and we run the heat from late September all the way into May now on cool mornings.
Lying scum Democrats.
bttt
Too bad they ditched the signs. Parents would’ve had a great opportunity in a year or two to explain government propaganda (the big lie) to their children.
Settled political science.
Could probably change that 2 to a 3 and save money.
Going to FOUR is going to be tough.
Tax dollars at work.
...And the world is flat......
The idiocy of the whole thing is written in the text on this sign. They admit that the "small alpine glaciers" did not exist 7,000 years ago and formed because of the "Little Ice Age" which ended about "1850."
It also references the Big Ice Age, without naming it such, as the Pleistocene Era (AKA the Glacial Period as opposed to the Inter-Glacial Period that has existed for the last 12,000 years) when the serious glaciation existed from 130k years ago until 12k years ago. IOWS the "small alpine glaciers" of the "Little Ice Age" are the anomaly not the disappearance of them. A lack of glaciers is the norm for an Inter-Glacial period.
bttt!
Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]Dear Administrator Jackson:
I write in regard to the Proposed Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, Proposed Rule, 74 Fed. Reg. 18,886 (Apr. 24, 2009), the so-called "Endangerment Finding."
It has been often said that the "science is settled" on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.
The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.
Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.
We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it.
(excerpted from Professor Hayden's letter to Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator Environmental Protection Agency. More at link.)
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