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Mount Shasta glaciers growing, despite warming
Foxnews ^ | Tuesday, July 08, 2008 | SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press Writer

Posted on 01/26/2010 9:38:42 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

MOUNT SHASTA, Calif. — Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.

Reaching more than 14,000 feet above sea level, Mount Shasta is one of the state's tallest peaks, dominating the landscape of high plains and conifer forests in far Northern California. Nearby Indian tribes referred to its glaciers as the footsteps made by the creator when he descended to Earth. Hikers flock to Shasta every summer to scale them.

With glaciers retreating in the Sierra Nevada, the Rocky Mountains and elsewhere in the Cascades, those on Mount Shasta _ a volcanic peak at the southern end of the Cascade range _ are actually benefiting from changing weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean.

"When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking," said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team studying Shasta's glaciers. "These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean."

Climate change has cut the number of glaciers at Montana's Glacier National Park from 150 to 26 since 1850, and some scientists project there will be none left within a generation. Lonnie Thompson, a glacier expert at Ohio State University, has projected the storied snows at Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro might disappear by 2015.

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Russians don’t believe the IPCC forecasts, but they do believe their own eyes.

In 2002, a 22-million ton piece of ice broke off the gigantic Maili Glacier and crashed down a steep gorge into the village of Kami. It killed more than 150 people and injured hundreds more.The 500-foot wall of ice had been growing for six years. The Maili Glacier is just one of several glaciers in the North Caucasus Mountains that have been expanding at an alarming rate.

Other towns in the region have been partially buried by these advancing walls of ice. One local scientist in southern Russia said, “We may be seeing the beginning of a new great ice age!!!”

IT'S A CATASTROPHE!

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21 posted on 01/26/2010 10:03:57 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks Fred.


22 posted on 01/26/2010 10:05:29 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks; I just finished reading that, and then came back and saw your #14.


23 posted on 01/26/2010 11:08:31 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (I think not, therefore I don't exist!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Must be one of those obstinate right-wing glaciers.


24 posted on 01/26/2010 11:19:58 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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To: hsalaw
Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world

I don't bother reading an article that starts with a lie.

Because invariably, what follows is crafted to support said lie.

25 posted on 01/26/2010 11:41:20 PM PST by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenerio at a time.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The new economic machine of Global Warming will kill us all!
AL GORE, YOU LIE.

Now where is that cfc thread that “creates” warming. Dots Dots Dots


26 posted on 01/26/2010 11:50:34 PM PST by eyedigress ( now.)
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To: Solitar

thanks, you’ll love this 1975 article on Global Cooling!

http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm


27 posted on 01/27/2010 12:28:21 AM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: TheThinker
Glaciologists say most glaciers in Alaska and Canada are retreating, too, but there are too many to study them all.

Climate change is causing roughly 90 percent of the world's mountain glaciers to shrink, said Thompson, the Ohio State glacier expert.

Uh huh. Too many glaciers to measure in North America, but they know 90% are retreating world wide.

28 posted on 01/27/2010 12:39:32 AM PST by BigBobber
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world,

They start off with a lie, giving credence to global warming and telling a lie about shrinking glaciers. At least they told the truth about Mt. Shasta.

29 posted on 01/27/2010 12:41:52 AM PST by calex59
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To: aquila48
"It hasta be Shasta"

Tx for the pic.

30 posted on 01/27/2010 12:48:44 AM PST by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Give 'em hell, Sarah!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I have it on good authority that the phenomenon is attributable to the Lemurians


31 posted on 01/27/2010 1:22:46 AM PST by marsh2
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To: rdl6989; Desdemona; Little Bill; IrishCatholic; mmanager; enough_idiocy; FreedomPoster; ...
Thanx !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

32 posted on 01/27/2010 4:07:23 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: aquila48
Awesome !
33 posted on 01/27/2010 4:08:33 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Global warming is shrinking glaciers all over the world, but the seven tongues of ice creeping down Mount Shasta's flanks are a rare exception: They are the only long-established glaciers in the lower 48 states that are growing.

Samantha needs to examine her sources of information.

"When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking," said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team studying Shasta's glaciers. "These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean."

Slawek needs to do the same.
34 posted on 01/27/2010 4:38:44 AM PST by aruanan
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

From Mt. Shasta and south into the Mayacamas, that area is filled with bizarre cults like I AM and Bhagwan followers. They’re buying up land and building barbed-wire compounds. When I lived in the area, I always carried a pump shotgun and strapped a magnum on my hip, in case I met feral dog packs or feral hippys. So not only are glaciers growing, so are the number of brainless robots as they migrate in.

That would be a great area to go into and write a book about these cults, but you’d probably disappear within weeks.


35 posted on 01/27/2010 5:48:11 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Isn't this an old story?

But still true. I posted this pic before...Mt Shasta taken in June of 2006.


36 posted on 01/27/2010 6:23:14 AM PST by Clovis_Skeptic (The answer to 1984 is 1776!)
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To: sergeantdave; All
It's a nice place, but some real weirdo’s live there as mentioned...

http://www.lemurianconnection.com/en/about-mount-shasta.htm

37 posted on 01/27/2010 7:27:10 AM PST by az_gila (AZ - one Governor down... we don't want her back...)
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To: aquila48; Ernest_at_the_Beach
The high mountains have a special place in my bosom as having skied the west years back....deep powder, spectacular views.
Obviously Shasta is one heck of a great mountain massive. Nice to see it is being used to demonstrate the falsehood regarding ABW and GW in general.
38 posted on 01/27/2010 11:07:16 AM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; aquila48; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; ...
Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach and aquila48 for the pings. But of course, now I'm thirsty...
 
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39 posted on 01/27/2010 5:26:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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To: az_gila

Lemuria...Good grief!!! Forgot about the precurser to Atlantis.
I’m slipping in my history of the world.

Thanks for refreshing me.

Did you hear what Madam Blavatsky said about Lemuria?


40 posted on 01/27/2010 5:47:08 PM PST by sergeantdave
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