No glaciers in Glacier National Park

[Chris]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

 

[Oddball]

 

[slackjawed]

This is an easy fix, we just change the name to Ice Fields National Park and we can avoid the pesky 25 acre limit.
When it all melts we can rename it the grasslands.

 

[KittenKoder]

Meh, so the glaciers are moving from one location to one that you don't want them to ... your point?

 

[elvis]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

Praises be to Gore.

 

[driveby]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

zero fucks given ........

 

[KittenKoder]

What it boils down to is that the glaciers are melting there but building in a place where the park rangers there can't make more money off, so they whine about it now that way they can get sympathy funds when tourism dies and goes to where the glaciers are now ...


Boohoo ...

 

[AVG-JOE]

Pretty fucking cynical attitude regarding documented changes. Global warming or cyclical climate, it is foolish to ignore what is happening.

True, YOU can't do a damn thing to change things, save the choices you make being the best you can make with the information you have, but it is nice to know where some good summer hiking might be found over the next 10 years.

-Joe

 

[KittenKoder]

Pretty fucking cynical attitude regarding documented changes. Global warming or cyclical climate, it is foolish to ignore what is happening.

True, YOU can't do a damn thing to change things, save the choices you make being the best you can make with the information you have, but it is nice to know where some good summer hiking might be found over the next 10 years.

-Joe

True! Think about the simple fact that with all the glaciers moving we will have some great new hiking trails. But you do realize greed is the reason the "green" movement exists (should be called the white movement now with all the focus on ice and snow).

 

[dilloduck]

Not many people are aware that Minnesota was once called the Land of One Big Ass Glacier but after it melted it became the Land of 10,000 lakes. Tourism has held up well !

 

[eots]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

ya on the Mars environmentalist cries fell on deaf ears as well....now look whats happening


Mars is Melting
The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.

Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help.

August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.

Actually, you won't need the sky map because Mars is so bright and easy to find.

Just look south between midnight and dawn on any clear night this month. Mars is that eye-catching red star, outshining everything around it. It's getting brighter every night as Earth and Mars converge for a close encounter on August 27th.
Mars is Melting

 

[dilloduck]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

ya on the Mars environmentalist cries fell on deaf ears as well....now look whats happening


Mars is Melting
The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.

Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help.

August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.

Actually, you won't need the sky map because Mars is so bright and easy to find.

Just look south between midnight and dawn on any clear night this month. Mars is that eye-catching red star, outshining everything around it. It's getting brighter every night as Earth and Mars converge for a close encounter on August 27th.
Mars is Melting

It's spreading---oh damn--recall the Starfleet.

 

[AVG-JOE]

Not many people are aware that Minnesota was once called the Land of One Big Ass Glacier but after it melted it became the Land of 10,000 lakes. Tourism has held up well !

I've been to Minnesota... Goddamn mosquitos just about carried me off.

If not for my tolerance for pain and my trusty .22, I might not be here today.​

-Joe

 

[KittenKoder]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

ya on the Mars environmentalist cries fell on deaf ears as well....now look whats happening


Mars is Melting
The south polar ice cap of Mars is receding, revealing frosty mountains, rifts and curious dark spots.

Listen to this story via streaming audio, a downloadable file, or get help.

August 7, 2003: It's not every day you get to watch a planetary ice cap vanish, but this month you can. All you need are clear skies, a backyard telescope, and a sky map leading to Mars.

Actually, you won't need the sky map because Mars is so bright and easy to find.

Just look south between midnight and dawn on any clear night this month. Mars is that eye-catching red star, outshining everything around it. It's getting brighter every night as Earth and Mars converge for a close encounter on August 27th.
Mars is Melting

It's spreading---oh damn--recall the Starfleet.

Too late for them, they fell through the hole in the ozone layer.

 

[dilloduck]

Not many people are aware that Minnesota was once called the Land of One Big Ass Glacier but after it melted it became the Land of 10,000 lakes. Tourism has held up well !

I've been to Minnesota... Goddamn mosquitos just about carried me off.

If not for my tolerance for pain and my trusty .22, I might not be here today.​

-Joe

Lived there until I found out I didnt' have to.

 

[Barb]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

From 2006: The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books

"[...] How much will sea level rise with five degrees of global warming? Here too, our best information comes from the Earth's history. The last time that the Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher.

Eighty feet! In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Miami; indeed, practically the entire state of Florida would be under water. Fifty million people in the US live below that sea level. Other places would fare worse. China would have 250 million displaced persons. Bangladesh would produce 120 million refugees, practically the entire nation. India would lose the land of 150 million people.

A rise in sea level, necessarily, begins slowly. Massive ice sheets must be softened and weakened before rapid disintegration and melting occurs and the sea level rises. It may require as much as a few centuries to produce most of the long-term response. But the inertia of ice sheets is not our ally against the effects of global warming. The Earth's history reveals cases in which sea level, once ice sheets began to collapse, rose one meter (1.1 yards) every twenty years for centuries. That would be a calamity for hundreds of cities around the world, most of them far larger than New Orleans. Devastation from a rising sea occurs as the result of local storms which can be expected to cause repeated retreats from transitory shorelines and rebuilding away from them.[...]"

The willful ignorance on this subject is appalling.

 

[KittenKoder]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

From 2006: The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books

"[...] How much will sea level rise with five degrees of global warming? Here too, our best information comes from the Earth's history. The last time that the Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher.

Eighty feet! In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Miami; indeed, practically the entire state of Florida would be under water. Fifty million people in the US live below that sea level. Other places would fare worse. China would have 250 million displaced persons. Bangladesh would produce 120 million refugees, practically the entire nation. India would lose the land of 150 million people.

A rise in sea level, necessarily, begins slowly. Massive ice sheets must be softened and weakened before rapid disintegration and melting occurs and the sea level rises. It may require as much as a few centuries to produce most of the long-term response. But the inertia of ice sheets is not our ally against the effects of global warming. The Earth's history reveals cases in which sea level, once ice sheets began to collapse, rose one meter (1.1 yards) every twenty years for centuries. That would be a calamity for hundreds of cities around the world, most of them far larger than New Orleans. Devastation from a rising sea occurs as the result of local storms which can be expected to cause repeated retreats from transitory shorelines and rebuilding away from them.[...]"

The willful ignorance on this subject is appalling.

Yeah ... how all the environuts willfully push for laws to support failing products and services just so they can remain ignorant and sleep easy at night ... even though they really have no clue as to what the science involved actually means.

 

[dilloduck]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

From 2006: The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books

"[...] How much will sea level rise with five degrees of global warming? Here too, our best information comes from the Earth's history. The last time that the Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher.

Eighty feet! In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Miami; indeed, practically the entire state of Florida would be under water. Fifty million people in the US live below that sea level. Other places would fare worse. China would have 250 million displaced persons. Bangladesh would produce 120 million refugees, practically the entire nation. India would lose the land of 150 million people.

A rise in sea level, necessarily, begins slowly. Massive ice sheets must be softened and weakened before rapid disintegration and melting occurs and the sea level rises. It may require as much as a few centuries to produce most of the long-term response. But the inertia of ice sheets is not our ally against the effects of global warming. The Earth's history reveals cases in which sea level, once ice sheets began to collapse, rose one meter (1.1 yards) every twenty years for centuries. That would be a calamity for hundreds of cities around the world, most of them far larger than New Orleans. Devastation from a rising sea occurs as the result of local storms which can be expected to cause repeated retreats from transitory shorelines and rebuilding away from them.[...]"

The willful ignorance on this subject is appalling.

The earth will "recover" and you will be dead anyway---don't worry.

 

[Oddball]

What's more appalling is the willful scaremongering by the neo-Malthusian declinists.

 

[Barb]

BILLINGS, Mont.—On the eve of Glacier National Park's 100th birthday, some of its distinctive features — glaciers — are disappearing and may not be around for the park's bicentennial party.

The parks' remaining glaciers might not last longer than the next decade, said Dan Fagre, a U.S. Geological Survey mountain ecologist who has been studying the park's glaciers for 18 years.

Glaciers are created when snow falling over many years is compacted into ice. For an ice field to be classified as a glacier, it must be more than 25 acres in size, be on the move and sculpt the landscape.

A 2003 study predicted park glaciers might be gone by 2030. But, because temperatures are warming at a more rapid rate than a few years ago, glaciers could disappear by 2020, Fagre said. In 1900, about 150 glaciers lay in what is now the national park.

Now only 25 glaciers are 25 acres or larger, Fagre said.

Although the size and number of glaciers have been decreasing over the past century, glaciers now are shrinking at three to four times the rate that they were in the 1950s and 1960s.

The reason is warmer temperatures.

Glacier Ice Fields May Be Gone By Next Decade - US News and World Report

From 2006: The Threat to the Planet - The New York Review of Books

"[...] How much will sea level rise with five degrees of global warming? Here too, our best information comes from the Earth's history. The last time that the Earth was five degrees warmer was three million years ago, when sea level was about eighty feet higher.

Eighty feet! In that case, the United States would lose most East Coast cities: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Miami; indeed, practically the entire state of Florida would be under water. Fifty million people in the US live below that sea level. Other places would fare worse. China would have 250 million displaced persons. Bangladesh would produce 120 million refugees, practically the entire nation. India would lose the land of 150 million people.

A rise in sea level, necessarily, begins slowly. Massive ice sheets must be softened and weakened before rapid disintegration and melting occurs and the sea level rises. It may require as much as a few centuries to produce most of the long-term response. But the inertia of ice sheets is not our ally against the effects of global warming. The Earth's history reveals cases in which sea level, once ice sheets began to collapse, rose one meter (1.1 yards) every twenty years for centuries. That would be a calamity for hundreds of cities around the world, most of them far larger than New Orleans. Devastation from a rising sea occurs as the result of local storms which can be expected to cause repeated retreats from transitory shorelines and rebuilding away from them.[...]"

The willful ignorance on this subject is appalling.

Yeah ... how all the environuts willfully push for laws to support failing products and services just so they can remain ignorant and sleep easy at night ... even though they really have no clue as to what the science involved actually means.

Most of the science is taught in HS earth science, and reviewed in college most basic general ed. geology requirement. Upper level ecology courses get into more detail, but but at all levels, the textbooks agree. But hey, go back to sleep, everything's fine.