[quantim]

“It's almost universal that all glaciers are retreating,”

What are these glaciers running from?  Besides France.

[Flavius]

cool

now is there any oil there can we drill for it bring on the pumps

[Army Air Corps]

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

[Conservomax]

I was at Mt Hood last July, there were snowboarders there.

I'm from the northeast.


Now THAT is a Frikken mountain!

[COEXERJ145]

Obviously all the glaciers are running from George W. Bush.

After all, he is destroying them by not signing Kyoto.

And for those to dense to get this. Yes, I am being sarcastic.

[llevrok]

Please read the book, State of Fear.

There are as many, if not more, glaciers expanding that are never mentioned.

[kabar]

Mount St. Helens glacier (Crater Glacier) growing 50 feet per year. September 20, 2004 - “Today, the snow and ice in the crater is equal in volume to all of the pre-eruption glaciers on Mount St. Helens combined," says a brochure published by the US Forest Service.”

Located inside the volcanic crater formed during its 1980 eruption, 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.

Why is no one bothering to tell us about this?

[PzLdr]

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

[CindyDawg]

There is nothing we can do. The world isn't going to flood. We will deal with problems as they develop.

[kabar]

Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States

[VOA]

Studies that show the glaciers receding do not surprise climbers of Mount Hood,
who say they now skip certain routes to the summit because rocks and ice once
locked solidly in place now break loose.

So I guess the scientists/grad. students and climbers are all going to
stop climbing on, poopin'/peein'/breathin' on mountains...thus slowing
the melting...
Oh, and to stop the burning of fossil fuels to get them to/from the mountains and
to make/ship all the food and goods they need to climb/explore.

I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

[steve86]

Ping for Cascade Peaks

[miliantnutcase]

Bush's fault?

[SouthTexas]

Ya think they can send us some of the melt water?

[OPS4]

Gee Iwonder if they investigated the fact that glaciers go through cycles of Melt down and Freeze up. They might have some history on it, would they say?

Ops4 God Bless America!

[hedgetrimmer]

Uh, Mt Hood is a volcano. It can get warm when a volcano gets active.

"On clear, cold, windless days, a steam plume is often seen rising from the fumaroles. Visitors to Mount Hood frequently smell the "rotten egg" odor of the fumarole gas, whose composition indicates that magma lies a few miles below the summit."

"Twelve glaciers and named snowfields cover approximately 80 percent of the cone above the 2,100-meter level and contain about 0.35 cubic kilometers of ice. Most of the glaciers have remained roughly constant in size over the last few decades, after retreating from a neo-glacial maximum early in the 18th century. Modern glacier termini are at about 2,100 meters, but in the last major alpine glaciation (Fraser, about 29-10 thousand years ago) glaciers reached the 700-800 meter level. During this time, ice spread 15 kilometers from the summit area."
-- American Geophysical Union Field Trip Guidebook

[Galveston Grl]

If Bush would just give some money to the UN, then the glaciers would not feel the need to run away anymore. But no, he does not care about the glaciers and just keeps on making them melt. It's just like him sending hurricanes into Democrat Party terrority to kill Black people.

[freedumb2003]

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

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!

[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......

[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.

[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.