California Glaciers Are Growing
By Don | July 10, 2008
USA Today reports that glaciers on Mt. Shasta in California are actually growing.
Reaching more than 14,000 feet above sea level, Mt. Shasta dominates the landscape of high plains and conifer forests in far Northern California.
While it's not California's tallest mountain, the tongues of ice creeping down Shasta's volcanic flanks give the solitary mountain another distinction. Its seven glaciers, referred to by American Indians as the footsteps made by the creator when he descended to Earth, are the only historical glaciers in the continental U.S. known to be growing.
No comment from Gov. Schwarzenegger.
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“When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking,” said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean.”
“Warmer temperatures have cut the number of glaciers at Montana’s Glacier National Park from 150 to 26 since 1850, and some scientists project there will be none left within 25 to 30 years. The timeline for the storied snows at Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro is even shorter, while the ice fields of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile also are retreating.”
“With global warming causing the retreat of glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains and elsewhere in the Cascades, Mt. Shasta is actually benefiting from changing weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean.”
July 10 at 4:06 pm | #1 | Link
Did you go there, Don?
It must be “hot” glaciers.
Common, it’s global warming. Not global cooling.
You’re making Al Gore angry.