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montana500 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 08:01 PM
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Glacier National Park may soon need new name
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"Glacier National Park might soon need a new name.

The Montana park has 26 named glaciers today, down from 150 in 1850. Those that remain are typically mere remnants of their former frozen selves, a new gallery of before and after images reveals.

All arguments about global warming aside, now is a time of clear retreat by age-old ice packs in many locations around the world. Some retreat just a few inches or feet per year, but others are melting faster than a snow cone in Texas."
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-25-06 09:50 PM
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1. The glaciers in Glacier Bay NP started retreating in the 19th century
Would the industrial revolution in England have been a cause for starting a warming cycle?
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-26-06 12:32 PM
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2. We're defrosting, all right. Big article in the Portland Oregonian 3/26
Edited on Sun Mar-26-06 12:36 PM by Radio_Lady
with text and photos of the perennial glaciers on Mt. Hood, Oregon -- showing the big variation in size over the years.

See if I can find it online at www.oregonlive.com

It's right on the first page today -- Sunday, 3/26.

Sorry.

Computer problems -- have to shut down.
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