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What is that a graph of?
Mt Hood's glaciers are smaller every summer, from what i can see from my apartment. Is this reduction per year or something?
Central Oregons Vanishing Glacier | Joseph Friedrichs | Bend | New West Bend
Central Oregons Vanishing Glacier
By Joseph Friedrichs, 10-25-07
The Collier Glacier, one of Central Oregons most treasured natural possessions, is shrinking faster than most of the 35 other glaciers in the state, a team of geologists who spent time this summer exploring the region reported.
Ellen Morris Bishop, an Oregon-based geologist, told the Associated Press that the glaciers of the Oregon Cascades are in a chaotic shrink phase. And where do Bishop and her crew place the blame? Why global warming, of course.
What is that a graph of?
Mt Hood's glaciers are smaller every summer, from what i can see from my apartment. Is this reduction per year or something?
What is that a graph of?
Mt Hood's glaciers are smaller every summer, from what i can see from my apartment. Is this reduction per year or something?
Unfortunately my skills attaching images is poor. Maybe its too big so its resized as a thumbnail.
You have to double click on the graph to see it.
Central Oregons Vanishing Glacier | Joseph Friedrichs | Bend | New West Bend
Central Oregons Vanishing Glacier
By Joseph Friedrichs, 10-25-07
The Collier Glacier, one of Central Oregons most treasured natural possessions, is shrinking faster than most of the 35 other glaciers in the state, a team of geologists who spent time this summer exploring the region reported.
Ellen Morris Bishop, an Oregon-based geologist, told the Associated Press that the glaciers of the Oregon Cascades are in a chaotic shrink phase. And where do Bishop and her crew place the blame? Why global warming, of course.
Glacier Notes: as global warming proceeds, year by year the Collier Glacier has shrunken. Currently it covers only about 200 acres. During the so-called Little Ice Age, the Collier was much larger; eg. about 1850 it was estimated to cover very nearly 600 acres. Additionally, the glacier's depth and activity level was much greater than at present. Please visit this resource for an extensive study of the glaciers of the American West, including many timelines showing historical photographs of glaciers on many peaks compared with current photographs
What is that a graph of?
Mt Hood's glaciers are smaller every summer, from what i can see from my apartment. Is this reduction per year or something?
Unfortunately my skills attaching images is poor. Maybe its too big so its resized as a thumbnail.
You have to double click on the graph to see it.
Maybe you need to post the link to the article that the graph came from.
mdn, you continue to be a clueless fuck. That loss represents nearly 70% by surface area, and probably over 90% by volume.
The North Cascade glaciers are far more extensive, and are also losing massive amount of ice.
NORTH CASCADE GLACIER CLIMATE PROJECT
Impact of global warming on Glacier Termini and Survival: I read in the 2002 North Cascades National Park-Natural Notes that: " More than 90 percent of the North Cascades glaciers could disappear within 40 years if the annual temperature increases by 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)." We have observed the response of North Cascade glaciers to a climate change of nearly this magnitude at the end of the Little Ice Age and did not lose nearly 90% of the glaciers, nor did most of them finish their retreat, adjusting to the post Little Ice Age climate in less than 40 years. Thus, this figure is not correct. Annual mass balance surveys on ten glaciers in the North Cascades indicate that North Cascade glaciers have lost an average of 0.5 m of thickness each year from 1984-2007. This 13-14 m of glacier thickness lost is approximately 20-40 % of the entire volume of North Cascade glaciers, gone in twenty four years. The result is incredible changes in the size of our glaciers due to the warmer climate. What climate changes have we observed? What do recent trends suggest about the likely future of North Cascade glaciers?
Mt. St. Helens lost virtually all of it glaciers in the 1980 eruption. The presently growing glacier in the crater is tiny in volume compared to the ones lost in the eruption. As far as I know, it is the only actively growing glacier in Washington.
Mount St. Helens, glaciers, and climate change Climate Progress