Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumSome truly shocking before and after photos of Alaska's glaciers
http://www.snowaddiction.org/2014/06/photos-from-alaska-then-and-now-this-is-a-get-ready-to-be-shocked-when-you-see-what-it-looks-like-now.html?m=1Muir Glacier and Inlet 1895
Muir Glacier and Inlet 2005
Many more photos at the link.
dhol82
(9,351 posts)once in 1995 and again 2005.
was bragging like crazy to friends on the cruise about how huge glacier bay was. at least it had been ten years previously.
we sailed into the bay and my mouth dropped open. it had shrunk so much i was flabbergasted.
don't have comparison pix. wish i did.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Portage Glacier is barely visible now. In 1972 when I first came up here, it was huge, out to the middle of the lake. You could walk out on it. It's so sad. It's still beautiful here, of course, but not the same.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,296 posts)That is just horrifying.
Thanks for the pictures.
K&R for the Greatest Page.
babylonsister
(170,955 posts)changes. I'm sorry so many people are so ignorant.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)It isn't just Alaska.
This isn't complicated. The anti-science people want to make it complicated. It just isn't. The planet is getting hotter. Heat melts ice.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
babylonsister
(170,955 posts)many who won't accept reality.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
neverforget
(9,433 posts)it's happening.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)but I have only these: too sad for words.
Sam
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)Just wow.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)Easy to see and understand. I appreciate the link--makes it real.
Grown2Hate
(2,005 posts)crowd doesn't realize (or doesn't care?) that the overall impact isn't just losing "pretty pieces of nature". The more ice that melts, the less ice there is around to reflect sunlight, the HOTTER it gets. It's a runaway train, and the new ice age will be upon us about 8,000 years ahead of schedule at this rate (as soon as 1000 years from now). Scary for the future of civilization (not so much "the planet"; Earth will do just fine without us, probably better).
Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread, Blue_In_AK.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Or it would be, if it was really happening, which it isn't.
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