What's Really Melting: Obama's Alaskan Lies

Breitbart.com ^ | September 2, 2015 | Steve Milloy

[Biggirl]

President Obama’s hike up the rapidly melting Exit Glacier today has run into some unfortunate buzzkill: reality.

[Biggirl]

Mr. Obama, the glaciers are melting, because it is summertime.

[WayneS]

The glaciers are melting because we are still coming out of the last ice age.

[Smokin' Joe]

Presidential visit? Maybe the glaciers are melting because of all of the associated hot air.

[mmichaels1970]

The hike is supposed to be the high point of this week’s trip to Alaska, undertaken for the purpose of dramatizing global warming. The media pitch is that Exit Glacier has been rapidly retreating for decades because of global warming.

Sadly for the President’s play acting, though, the National Park Service previously reported that Exit Glacier has been exiting since at least the early 1800s — before the Industrial Revolution even got underway.

Does anybody honestly think that this will ever change the "media pitch"? He'll score whatever political points he wants out of this. Facts be damned.

[Sasparilla]

...Facts be damned...

Forget Hopey Changey.
“Facts be damned” should have been his and Hillary’s campaign slogans.

[Defiant]

the National Park Service previously reported that Exit Glacier has been exiting since at least the early 1800s — before the Industrial Revolution even got underway.

True, but it was after humans started making fire.

[uncitizen]

You mean Obama just went to Alaska for political purposes? Nah!

[bikerman]

Where oh where are the Grizzlies when you need them

[lostboy61]

Please come back in January or February dumb ass! You know in the winter when everything is cold and ice covered.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

[bgill]

the glaciers are melting, because it is summertime.

Like that wasn't timed. Let's see him go in February.

[kaehurowing]

He had to go to this glacier because it’s the only one in Alaska that’s shrinking, the rest are growing—and would have been a much close trip to get to.

[The_Media_never_lie]

“Facts be damned” should have been his and Hillary’s campaign slogans.

Good one.

I also like the Hillary for Prison 2016 signs.

http://www.cafepress.com/+hillary_prison_2016_car_magnet_10_x_3,1590170455?utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=1590170455&utm_source=google&utm_cAampaign=sem-cpc-product-ads&utm_content=search-pla

[Dustoff45]

He had to go to this glacier because it’s the only one in Alaska that’s shrinking, the rest are growing

Exit Glacier, near Seward, Portage Glacier, near Anchorage and Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau are three of the most visited glaciers in Alaska. All three have been retreating since the 19th Century. Folks that visited any one of these much earlier in their lives are taken back by the extent of their retreat.

But to blame the retreat on Man is just ignorant. Changes in snowfall has more to do with the accumulation of ice in the ice fields that feed each of these glaciers. Go look at the size and depth of the ice fields, study changes in weather patterns before using a photo op at Exit Glacier to effect National opinion.

[CedarDave]

Where are the numbers from 1973 - 1999??