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Mount Hood glaciers melting
AP/SignOnSandiego.com ^ | March 27, 2006

Posted on 03/27/2006 8:23:53 PM PST by quantim

PORTLAND, Ore. – The seven largest of Mount Hood's 11 glaciers have shrunk by an average of more than 30 percent since the beginning of the last century, according to calculations by a Portland State University graduate student.

Keith Jackson, who is part of a glacier research team financed by the National Science Foundation and NASA, estimates that Sandy Glacier, on Mount Hood's west slopes facing Portland, covers about 60 percent less ground than it did a century ago and Eliot Glacier has lost at least half of its ice in the last 100 years.

And scientists think glaciers might recede faster in the coming century because of warmer temperatures. Average low temperatures at Eliot Glacier have been above freezing during at least six of the last 12 years, more than any such period in the last 110 years, according to Oregon Climate Service calculations.

Scientists in the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group predict the Northwest will warm nearly as much in the next 20 years as it has in the last 100, about a degree Fahrenheit.

“It's almost universal that all glaciers are retreating,” said Peter Clark, an Oregon State University professor who's an authority on glaciers. “The signs of retreat are dramatic and accelerating.”

It signals that “the cause of that change is overwhelming other factors,” he said. “The fingerprint of global warming is increasing on a global scale.”

Studies that show the glaciers receding do not surprise climbers of Mount Hood, who say they now skip certain routes to the summit because rocks and ice once locked solidly in place now break loose.

“Warming and the receding glaciers are very much affecting the recreation potential and the dangerousness of it on all sides of the mountain,” said Vera Dafoe, who has long led hikes on the mountain for the Mazamas. “It has changed enormously.”


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To: quantim

Well, I didn't get in the first "Bush's Fault" but I am the first to say:

We're DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!


21 posted on 03/27/2006 8:37:51 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Don't call them "Illegal Aliens." Call them what they are: CRIMINAL INVADERS!)
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To: PzLdr
Funny. The last show on Mt. Hood I saw blamed the melting glaciers on activity in the magma chamber.

Oh, yeah--Hood is a volcano, one of those things that spew out "greenhouse gases".

22 posted on 03/27/2006 8:40:31 PM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: freedumb2003

Keith Jackson?. . .FUM BLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE!!


23 posted on 03/27/2006 8:40:33 PM PST by McBuff
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To: llevrok

That's required bathroom reading in my house ;)


24 posted on 03/27/2006 8:41:46 PM PST by Number57
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To: quantim
...glaciers have shrunk by an average of more than 30 percent since the beginning of the last century...the average temperature did rise about one degree during the last century - during the first half of the period - they're probably "retreating" less rapidly now than they were fifty years ago......
25 posted on 03/27/2006 8:43:41 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: quantim
No, but being in a ski lodged in 85+ weather is a little depressing.

I loved oregon though.

The Columbia river valley is amazing.


26 posted on 03/27/2006 8:44:22 PM PST by Conservomax (There are no solutions, only trade-offs.)
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To: VOA
Got a URL for that? If you do, please post. Thanks in advance.

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/mshnvm/volcano-review/fire-and-ice.shtml

27 posted on 03/27/2006 8:46:02 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Find it interesting that all these measurements involving melting that started about 100 year ago. I assume that's a trend from before the massive production of greenhouse gases.


28 posted on 03/27/2006 8:46:07 PM PST by Williams
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To: kabar
Why is no one bothering to tell us about this?

It's a lot warmer in OR than WA.

America’s youngest glacier is also its fastest growing glacier. Scientists estimate that the thickness of the glacier has increased by nearly 50 feet per year. Not only is it growing thicker, it has been advancing as much as 135 feet per year.

Shows you how fast glaciers can grow.

29 posted on 03/27/2006 8:48:27 PM PST by Mike Darancette (In the Land of the Blind the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Army Air Corps
If France is retreating them someone must be on the advance...


Not necessarily, remember the long established French doctrine of preemptive surrender.
30 posted on 03/27/2006 8:49:43 PM PST by Jackson Brown
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To: McBuff

Oh, how I miss him calling the great Big Ten games on ABC, blimp overhead. "Ohio State about to lose to Michigan..."

He can't be replaced in our lifetimes. Although he is 'retired' nothing makes a game like Mr. Jackson.


31 posted on 03/27/2006 8:54:46 PM PST by quantim (A gullible public is the best friend of a weak politician.)
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To: Jackson Brown

LOL!

Now, if I had been enjoying a beverage, then you would owe a new screen to me.


32 posted on 03/27/2006 8:58:04 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: quantim
Now I can relax. My science teacher said we were about to enter a new ice age. Since i live near a city named "Moraine" for its large glacial deposits I was quite worried.

Of course my kids never understood my angst since they were screweled in Global warming.
33 posted on 03/27/2006 8:58:10 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety (High School Class of 1980.)
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To: Williams
I assume that's a trend from before the massive production of greenhouse gases.

Actually, it's from landfills with an excess of decomposing organic materials, mostly buggy whips I'm told. /sarc/humor

34 posted on 03/27/2006 8:59:44 PM PST by quantim (A gullible public is the best friend of a weak politician.)
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To: Conservomax
Nice pics. Multnomah Falls and Vista House. You like?

Remember, all this and we have NO SALES TAX here. Great for fixed incomes. I am hoping more conservatives will retire here, and we can take BACK our state!

35 posted on 03/27/2006 9:03:37 PM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (If the US were into invading Mosques, it would have started in Fallujah years ago!)
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To: Williams
Find it interesting that all these measurements involving melting that started about 100 year ago...a competent scientist trying to prove how destructive greenhouse gasses have been would give us measurements of melting across the first half of the last century in comparison to those across the last half to attempt to demonstrate dramatically increased melting - I bet it'll never happen......
36 posted on 03/27/2006 9:04:19 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: SouthTexas

I was thinking that Mt. Hood was losing ice because Texans were having a cocktail party near it.


37 posted on 03/27/2006 9:10:20 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: SouthTexas

ping


38 posted on 03/27/2006 9:11:30 PM PST by SideoutFred (Save us from the Looney Left)
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To: VOA
Check out the link in my post #10 and check the list of expanding glaciers in the US.

Check out this link: The beginning of a New Glacier Forming in the Crater of Mount St. Helens.

39 posted on 03/27/2006 9:13:11 PM PST by kabar
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To: quantim

Don't worry. When Mt. Hood blows, there won't be any glaciers left. Just like Mt. St. Helens doesn't have glaciers anymore.


40 posted on 03/27/2006 9:13:17 PM PST by Hermann the Cherusker
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