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Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

Posted by mooreds |2 hours ago |3 comments

sys32768 38 minutes ago

George Bird Grinnell, the "Father of Glacier National Park", made a final visit to his namesake Grinnell glacier in 1926 and then wrote in his diary [1]:

>"the glacier is melting very fast and the amount of water coming from it is great. All these glaciers are receding rapidly and after a time will disappear."

[1] = https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/repeat-photos-of-grinnell-g...

nehal3m an hour ago

The graph for cumulative glacier mass balance is quite sobering. The loss seems to be accelerating as well. This stuff is so depressing.

koops an hour ago

They should mention thermal expansion, which is also a major driver of sea-level rise.