Posted on 09/01/2015 7:21:29 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
A bitterly cold Alaskan summer has had surprising results. For the first time in the area's recorded history, area glaciers have begun to expand, rather than shrink. Summer temperatures, which were some 3 degrees below average, allowed record levels of winter snow to remain much longer, leading to the increase in glacial mass.
"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound", said glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years".
"On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface [in] late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying [did] not become snow free until early August."
Molnia, who works for the US Geological Survey, said it's been a "long time" since area glaciers have seen a positive mass balance -- an increase in the total amount of ice they contain.
Since 1946, the USGS has maintained a research project measuring the state of Alaskan glaciers. This year saw records broken for most snow buildup. It was also the first time since any records began being that the glaciers did not shrink during the summer months.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
Perhaps we can name one of them after William McKinley...
Shhhh. You’ll make the brain dead cry
The day will come when Obama’s name will be removed from things named after him.
250 years? I thought the US caused it with the Industrial Revolution and soccer moms with SUV’s. What gives? Have we been lied to?
You mean Man Made global warming goes back 250 years???
Really?
Someone was measuring and reporting Arctic glacier expansion and contraction in 1758?
Who?
Who was the idiot Senator who said on his visit to Kodiak that the glacier there was melting...In August????
BTW, average temperature on Kodiak in August is 60 degrees...
Read my tagline. :)
Can we go back to calling them "Clymers"?
Not completely.
People will still go to the Obama
to take an Obama
Then they'll need toilet Obama paper to wipe their Obama.
Ye olde sportes utilitie vehicle.
Global warming is a hoax!
1 million Earths fit into the star which is called the Sun.
Try to wrap your little minds around that fact you liberal morons in the corrupt news media and politicians.
liberals/democrats want us to believe that its not the Sun which drives climate but a C02 which is 0.003 of the atmosphere. And they say we are deniers because we say the Sun and the Sun's solar cycle which is slowing do drive climate not C02.
As soon as I read that Obama was going to Alaska to be on an NBC show hyping “Climate Change”, I KNEW Alaska was going to be in for another HARD winter.
It’s getting freaky just how consistently the weather mocks these climate change geeks...
This news confirms my suspicion.
Why Al Gore felt safe buying an oceanfront estate: Researchers lied about sea levels rising
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/researchers-lied-about-sea-levels-rising
The article is from '08
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