2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park

2 more glaciers gone from Glacier National Park

BILLINGS, Mont. — Glacier National Park has lost two more of its namesake moving icefields to climate change, which is shrinking the rivers of ice until they grind to a halt, a government researcher said Wednesday.

Warmer temperatures have reduced the number of named glaciers in the northwestern Montana park to 25, said Dan Fagre said, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He warned many of the rest of the glaciers may be gone by the end of the decade.

“It's continual,” Fagre said. “When we're measuring glacier margins, by the time we go home the glacier is already smaller than what we've measured.”

The meltoff shows the climate is changing, but does not show exactly what is causing temperatures to go up, Fagre said.

The park's glaciers have been slowly melting away since about 1850, when the centuries-long Little Ice Age ended. They once numbered as many as 150, and 37 of those glaciers eventually were named.

A glacier needs to be 25 acres to qualify for the title.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6947923.html

Glacierless National Park.

I have never made it that far north to see Glacier. I did get my last shots of sunset from the Florida coast before they erect the oil rigs though.

It's still beautiful, for another ten years or so. Amtrak runs right through it. You can get there.

Sorry, one track mind this week

They sneak in at night and chip away at the glaciers.

Just look what these eco-terrorists did to Muir Glacier:

I took my boy so that he could at least see it once. :(

but the loss is worse in GNP.

http://www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/

hey, denier idiots - the AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE is climbing. localized weather is supposed to become MORE EXTREME - like bigger snowstorms, unseasonably high temperatures - sound familiar?