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World's Glaciers Are Melting Faster Today Than Any Time in History
weather.com ^ | 8-4-15 | Rick Adams

Posted on 08/04/2015 10:30:48 AM PDT by smokingfrog

The world's glaciers are losing ice at a faster pace so far this century than at any time since record-keeping began more than 120 years ago, according to a new study that says glacial melt is a worldwide phenomenon and will continue even if the world stopped warming any further than it already has.

In the study, published last month in the Journal of Glaciology and conducted by the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, scientists compared observations of tens of thousands of glaciers around the world with all other data available on the world's glaciers.

They used everything from satellite images and photographs taken on the ground and from the air, to drawings and lithographs made back in the 19th century and earlier. All together, the evidence paints a remarkably consistent picture of what's happening to ice around the world.

"The observed glaciers currently lose between half a metre and one metre [about 1 1/2 to 3 feet] of its ice thickness every year – this is two to three times more than the corresponding average of the 20th century," said Michael Zemp, Director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service and the study's lead author, in a statement.

That's the equivalent of "about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year," Zemp told the Huffington Post, adding that the current rate of ice loss is twice as fast as the 1990s and three times as fast as the 1980s.

(Excerpt) Read more at weather.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: climate; glaciers; globalwarming
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To: smokingfrog

what time of the year were both of those pix?


41 posted on 08/04/2015 11:17:49 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: smokingfrog

42 posted on 08/04/2015 11:24:57 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The night is far spent, the day is at hand.- Romans 13:12)
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To: smokingfrog

Another misleading pantload. Glaciers are not permanent. If they were then the norhern part of the US and all of Canada would still be under a mile high ice sheet. Greenland around the year 1000 had a lot of arable land that could be lived on. A few hundred years later the mini ice age began and all of that changed and the ice sheets grew. Is Greenland melting?

Pure fascist junk science like the superiority of the Aryan race.


43 posted on 08/04/2015 11:27:28 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Black Agnes

This article says the Sperry glacier has been retreating since the mid-19th century. It also includes a link to a Google maps link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperry_Glacier

Enjoy.


44 posted on 08/04/2015 11:29:24 AM PDT by LifePath
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To: smokingfrog

Then why is a glacier forming in the caldera of Mt. St. Helens?


45 posted on 08/04/2015 11:39:06 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: smokingfrog

I stopped going to Weather Channel (and weather.com) when they started pushing the GW BS.


46 posted on 08/04/2015 11:39:38 AM PDT by citizen (America is-or was-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
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To: citizen

If it makes you feel any better, the founder of The Weather Channel (now gone from there), thinks the GW crap is just that - crap.


47 posted on 08/04/2015 11:43:59 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: TigersEye

Many of the world’s glaciers are above the freeze line - it never gets warm enough for them to melt. They do lose ice due to sublimation - evaporation.

So the “problem” isn’t melting, it is lack of moisture replenishing the ice pack. In some places it is a problem - like where they use the ice melt for hydroelectric power or irrigation, or skiing or tourism.


48 posted on 08/04/2015 11:50:12 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

“The Earth has been on a warming trend since the end of the last ice-age.”

Not even close. We have been cooling since we’ve been able to accurately measure the temperature.


49 posted on 08/04/2015 11:56:21 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: smokingfrog

I live in Kansas, in an area known to be the furthest southern extent of glaciers the last time they crept south.

Soooo....sometime between that last glacial period and today, its warmed up.

Big deal.


50 posted on 08/04/2015 11:56:36 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: 1010RD

Monarchy is also Mob Rule by mobsters...
as is communism, socialism, fascism, and alas... Democracy..
which is ROOT of all those..

Americans are bewitched by the word democracy...
Few know what is “IS”, even fewer know what it Isn’t..

It’s a filthy thing, dirty, nasty.... masked Slavery..
With “the Vote” being the handcuffs that enslave...
Slop for the Hogs, treats for the Trained Dogs..

Slaves enslaving THEMSELVES....
Brilliant really..

The Cure: The U.S. Constitution that LIMITS the federal Givernment..
thats WHY? Democrats despise it.. they LOVE their chains and handcuffs..

Are you a democrat?... then be embarrassed..


51 posted on 08/04/2015 11:56:38 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: smokingfrog

If you like your glaciers, you can keep your glaciers, if you vote Democrat forever.


52 posted on 08/04/2015 11:57:46 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: smokingfrog
World's Glaciers Are Melting Faster Today Than Any Time in History

Any time in history???

Including 10kYa?

53 posted on 08/04/2015 11:58:11 AM PDT by Jim Noble (You walk into the room like a camel and then you frown)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Bernie. Sanders.

...the new “BS”...


54 posted on 08/04/2015 12:05:37 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: smokingfrog

Lying pigs; however poles are frozen more than every.

I trust Joe Bastardi, not these commies.


55 posted on 08/04/2015 12:09:18 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Ted is the ticket.)
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To: lacrew

56 posted on 08/04/2015 12:19:22 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Black Agnes; smokingfrog

It would have been even better to have seen the photo of the glacier taken during the Medieval Warm Period or the Roman Warm Period.


57 posted on 08/04/2015 12:23:02 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: smokingfrog
Yep, "melting faster than at any time in history."


58 posted on 08/04/2015 12:35:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

No one was around to take pictures back then, so it didn’t happen.


59 posted on 08/04/2015 12:38:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Black Agnes

If you have Google Earth installed, you can see historical imagery. There is some ups and downs to the ice...or more likely, there is a seasonal aspect to this, and much of what is visible is snow pack on to of the mountains surrounding the glacier.


60 posted on 08/04/2015 12:40:18 PM PDT by lacrew
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