Re: Palisade glacier lake
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:57 am
The lake was there 35 years ago. I think the guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
From c. 1994
From c. 1994
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SpazzyMcgee wrote:The Chief wrote:Now this interesting.... 1960 and the Glacier is almost completely gone!
Twenty years LATER, 1980, and look! Back and then some.
Do additional, smaller snowfields in the bottom pic suggest it was taken earlier in the year?
Sierra Ledge Rat wrote:The lake was there 35 years ago. I think the guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
From c. 1994
The Chief wrote:Totally evidenced by the last two supposed "Hottest Years on Record" years.
The Chief wrote:96avs01 wrote:The Chief wrote:Totally evidenced by the last two supposed "Hottest Years on Record" years.
That's on a national or global scale, not Shasta region specific.
Irrelevant.
Shasta and other Cascade Glaciers are actually growing and are continuing to do so.
That is the jest of it.
The Chief wrote:That is the jest of it.
clmbr wrote:What time of the year was it taken?
The Chief wrote:
Shasta and other Cascade Glaciers are actually growing and are continuing to do so.
That is the jest of it.
Skeptics confuse these issues by cherry picking individual glaciers or by ignoring long term trends. Diversions such as these do not address the most important question of what is the real state of glaciers globally?
Shasta and other Cascade Glaciers are actually growing and are continuing to do so.
alpinelady1 wrote:There are a few glaciers that are growing, but many more are shrinking. Which is a proven fact.
alpinelady1 wrote:I am not here to start arguments