Posted on 09/13/2018 10:46:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the summer of 1987, a woman visiting Alaska was crushed by a 1,000-pound chunk of ice. According to news reports at the time, Thais Grabenauer, 59, had been taking pictures with her husband at the foot of Exit Glacier, a towering wall of ice that’s one of the most popular attractions in Kenai Fjords National Park. A half-ton piece of the glacier calved off as the couple was snapping, killing Grabenauer and injuring her husband.
It was one of those wrong place, wrong time tragedies that seem unlikely to happen again. But in the three decades since Grabenauer’s death, it has happened again - in Alaska and around the rest of the world. In 2009, for instance, two brothers crossed a safety barrier on New Zealand’s Fox Glacier and were buried under a collapsing ice shelf.
Deaths like these remain rare, but they’re also telling cases of a broader trend. In recent years, people have been increasingly flocking to the world’s glaciers. This boom in “glacier tourism” seems to be dually spurred, at least in part, by climate change: For one, people seem eager to glimpse the majestic monuments of ice before they melt away. And as ice sheets disappear, many glaciers are becoming more accessible - and unstable. T
Still, it’s likely that people visiting glaciers may not anticipate consequences quite as immediate as dislodged half-ton chunks of ice. The growing risks to travelers on melting glaciers are cruel reminders of all the smaller-scale and sometimes unpredictable damages climate change can inflict—even in the places where its broadest impacts are most visible.
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Well played, sir.
(so glad I was not sipping coffee when I read your retort).
Seems like if all these tourists are so worried about global warming, they should just stay home, so as to leave a “smaller footprint”.
glaciers crack and break when they are expanding... a melting glacier just recedes as it melts...
oh well. culling the herd.
Stop global gravity now!!!!
Pull my hoof....
“The only difference today is we have people stupid enough to stand under them”
So, Jack what you are saying is she deserved a Darwin Award.
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE! These people are mental.
Just chill.
Trump’s fault.
Well, 12,000 years ago almost everyone did...
I appreciate these posts. Good to know what the enemy is up to.
We did wave! You must have been out.
We did the helicopter tour to the Juneau ice field which was breathtaking. Fantastic pictures of my kids when they were younger.
Anyone considering an Alaska cruise should definitely go. I’ve been to lots of places and Alaska ranks up there with the pyramids, IMHO
^^^Glaciers Falling on Tourists: Yet Another Danger of Climate Change^^^
You’d think the greenies would consider this to be a GOOD thing: More dead humans, less global warming!
I don't think you do get how hilarious the articles and responses are.
I thoroughly enjoy them. ;-)
More like 5000 foot thick glaciers, or a mile, rather than 5 miles and 25,000+ foot thick ice.
More like 5000 foot thick glaciers, or a mile, rather than 5 miles and 25,000+ foot thick ice.
I am just using the same math they use :-) /s
More environmentalist bunk. Glaciers have been calving since forever. Get in the way, get crushed.
30 years ago and this is news now?
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