Alaska glaciers grew this year, thanks to colder weather...

[posty 2,702]

Uh-oh, what is algore going to do now? Of course he will say that it was his movie that opened everyone's eyes and helped this...

 

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53884.html

 

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

 

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

 

"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

 

"In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years."

 

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

 

"It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," Molnia said.

 

That's the way a scientist says the glaciers got thicker in the middle. Read the complete story at adn.com...

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Uh-oh, what is algore going to do now? Of course he will say that it was his movie that opened everyone's eyes and helped this...

 

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53884.html

 

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

 

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

 

"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

 

"In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years."

 

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

 

"It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," Molnia said.

 

That's the way a scientist says the glaciers got thicker in the middle. Read the complete story at adn.com...

 

Whew. Glad we don't have to worry about climate change after all. I'm gonna go out an spray a few cans of hairspray into the air out the window of my SUV just to celebrate.

 

[Isotopes 1]

So 200 years of shrinkage and then 1 year of growth and that means our problems are all over? or maybe last year was an anomaly

[NorthernVike 2,087]

So 200 years of shrinkage and then 1 year of growth and that means our problems are all over? or maybe last year was an anomaly

 

 

Or, maybe the last 200 years of shrinkage was the anomaly.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

So 200 years of shrinkage and then 1 year of growth and that means our problems are all over? or maybe last year was an anomaly

 

Didn't realize SUVs had been around for 200 years.