Remember Those National Park Signs Saying The Glaciers Would Be Gone By 2020?

Hotair ^ | 01/09/2020 | Jazz Shaw

[SeekAndFind]

Glacier National Park in Montana put up some signs back during the Obama administration warning visitors to take their selfies quickly because the glaciers would be gone by the year 2020. Unfortunately for the prognosticators behind that project, while some of the glaciers have definitely shrunk a bit, they stubbornly remain in the mountains to this day. That’s a bit of an embarrassment, so clearly the signs need to come down or at least be altered. Unfortunately, they can’t manage to get the job done so the humorous signage is still in place for visitors to chuckle at. (Free Beacon)

The Glacier National Park is set to replace signs predicting glaciers would disappear by 2020 due to climate change. The glaciers remain.

The signs were posted in the Montana park a decade ago because, at the time, climate change forecasts predicted the glaciers would be completely melted by 2020. The U.S. Geological Survey told the park in 2017 that the glaciers were not melting as fast as predicted due to changes in the forecast model, but park spokeswoman Gina Kurzmen said the park was unable to change the signs until now due to budget constraints. Kurzmen told CNN the park changed one sign last year but is still waiting on budget authorization to update two other signs.

The new signs will still warn visitors that the glaciers are disappearing but won’t offer an expected deadline this time.

This news raises two immediate questions. How did they get the prediction so wrong and what’s the holdup with replacing the signs?

As to the first question, they’re blaming the U.S. Geological Survey. Apparently there have been “changes in the forecast model.” This sounds like another way of saying we don’t understand everything that affects the planet’s complex climate system so predictions are difficult to make. (I’m old enough to remember when we were being warned about the advent of another ice age and everyone was going to die.)

As for the signs, Glacier National Park is crying poverty. Seriously? We’re talking about three signs, and one of them has already been replaced. Last year the NPS had a budget of more than three billion dollars in combined mandatory and discretionary spending.The specific budget for Glacier National Park was nearly fourteen million. You’d think they could manage to swap out two signs.

The new signs are going to be intentionally vaguer so they won’t have to go through this again ten years from now. They read, “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.”

Here’s an idea. The country is full of climate alarmists who are constantly talking about the climate crisis. They’re out in the streets and holding demonstrations all the time, including a number of celebrities who are obviously very well off in the financial department. Don’t you suppose they could pass the hat around between Jane Fonda and her friends and come up with enough money to create and install two signs? Or are those folks too busy getting arrested in Washington to bother with what goes on in the national parks?

Anyway, I’m not sure how much this matters since the world is going to end in eleven years. And then there won’t be anyone around to read the signs.

[wastoute]

There used to be a sign on Skyline Drive in Virginia blaming the haze on “Acid Rain”. It was quietly removed without fanfare as well.

[brownsfan]

There is no penalty for being wrong, as long as it’s in an effort to advance the religion.

[Vigilanteman]

It is almost like God is making these people look like idiots on purpose. We had some of our hottest weather in the mid 1990s, not long after they were squawking about a new ice age.

[Flavious_Maximus]

Exactly. Their predictions fail miserably yet they continue to repeat the same lies. Nothing ever happens to them besides more ridicule.

[FLT-bird]

President Trump should issue an executive order requiring them to keep those sign up just as they are to highlight the ridiculous and utterly false fearmongering of Gaia Worshipers.

[I want the USA back]

bam and algore don’t care. They got rich off their time of service. Each has his lavish mansion. Fake phony frauds.

[Vince Ferrer]

Keep the signs there as a reminder of all the climate predictions that haven’t come true.

[WKUHilltopper]

“Remember Those National Park Signs Saying The Glaciers Would Be Gone By 2020?”

Little did we know, at the time, that was secret code for “The BS Obama regulations would be gone by 2020”.

[JimRed]

They read, “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.”

Killing every human on the planet would not speed up or slow down that natural process by one minute.

[z3n]

Still waiting.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If the stock market continues to rise at the rate it did in January, we'll be somewhere around 38,000 by the end of the year.

Reminds me of predictions in 1966 that a loaf of bread would cost thirty bucks by the end of the century.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Kurzmen told CNN the park changed one sign last year but is still waiting on budget authorization to update two other signs.

Never a single thought that signs pushing the politically correct (and false) Chicken Little, looming climate disaster agenda are a blatant waste of taxpayer money.

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[Pride in the USA]

ping!

[cgbg]

We will never forget their lies—that is how we learned they are sociopaths and liars—as they continue to lie today.

[cgbg]

Signs pushing lies undermine confidence in government and civilization itself—no big deal. ;-)

[SeekAndFind]

[Bommer]

Replace them my ass! Leave them up to show how liberals piss our money away to scare us, besides, 2020 isn’t over.

[Labyrinthos]

Killing every human on the planet would not speed up or slow down that natural process by one minute.

Glaciers all over the world have been shrinking since the last ice age and they will continue to shrink until the next ice age. There is absolutely nothing that we can do or should do to alter this natural process.

[CheneyClone]

“The U.S. Geological Survey told the park in 2017 that the glaciers were not melting as fast as predicted due to changes in the forecast model”

Who writes this crap? The glaciers are responding to ill-conceived forecast models?