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| Me on the slushy Athabasca glacier in Jasper, Canada. They are counting the months that this glacier can STILL be visited as it is getting unsafe. I am fortunate to have seen it. |
Athabasca Glacier largest of 6 forming part of Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park (I thought it was 5 glaciers wiki says 8, just guess yourself - how about a bunch)
Think of this as a sketch of the receding Columbia Icefield Glacier Athabasca, as you cannot superimpose photos taken at different angles accurately and we can't see the depth loss (there are 5 Glaciers from this Canadian Icefield). "the Columbia Icefield, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, is one of the major sources of fresh water ice in North America.
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| 1917 |
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| I took this in August 2017 |
Look at it another way:
30 YEARS = GONE
According to CBC News in 2014:
A recent American state-of-the-union report has singled out the rapid melt of glaciers in British Columbia and Alaska as a major climate change issue saying they are "shrinking substantially."
The U.S. National Climate Assessment said the trend is expected to continue and has implications for hydro-power production, ocean circulation patterns, fisheries and a global rise in sea levels.
The report said glaciers in the region are losing 20 to 30 per cent as much as what is melting annually from the Greenland Ice Sheet, which has received far more worldwide attention.
Wilmshurst said it's estimated that the Athabasca Glacier is about 300 metres deep, but it is slowly disappearing.
"It is hard to know in the long term what climate cycles mean to people. It does mean we should be preparing for drier conditions in the future. I think long term it's not good news at all," he said.
"Absolutely the glacier will be gone. Not within my lifetime, probably, but maybe within my children's lifetime."
Also read...
“The Athabasca Glacier is the single best accessible example of what we are seeing happening in the world today because of climate change,” said Bob Sandford, director of the Western Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative and the Canadian Chair of the United Nations 2005, decade-long, Water for Life initiative. “We have been using the glaciers as a kind of climate change canary. What we’re finding now is that the canary has already sung.”
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The deniers of climate change look at these receding glaciers and say the earth has many cycles over billions of years of warming and cooling. They fail to take into account the rising CO2 levels since the beginning of the industrial revolution, contributing to trapping more heat in the atmosphere. Also reverent is that as the glaciers recede and oceans have less ice, this causes more heat to be absorbed instead of being reflected back to space. We are leaving quite a mess for our children and grandchildren.
Sharing on FB....How many years do we have to tell people about this - Our Government should have required Solar, Electric Cars, Windmills etc....60 years ago but they were paid off by Exxon Mobile etc. to destroy the world!!
How many years do we have to tell people about this? Our Government should have required Electric Cars, Solar, Windmills etc. Sixty years ago, but they were paid off by Exxon Mobile etc. to destroy the world!!
Won't higher temperatures create more arable land to feed our ever growing population?
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