Posted on 08/04/2015 10:30:48 AM PDT by smokingfrog
The world's glaciers are losing ice at a faster pace so far this century than at any time since record-keeping began more than 120 years ago, according to a new study that says glacial melt is a worldwide phenomenon and will continue even if the world stopped warming any further than it already has.
In the study, published last month in the Journal of Glaciology and conducted by the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, scientists compared observations of tens of thousands of glaciers around the world with all other data available on the world's glaciers.
They used everything from satellite images and photographs taken on the ground and from the air, to drawings and lithographs made back in the 19th century and earlier. All together, the evidence paints a remarkably consistent picture of what's happening to ice around the world.
"The observed glaciers currently lose between half a metre and one metre [about 1 1/2 to 3 feet] of its ice thickness every year – this is two to three times more than the corresponding average of the 20th century," said Michael Zemp, Director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service and the study's lead author, in a statement.
That's the equivalent of "about three times the ice volume stored in the entirety of the European Alps every year," Zemp told the Huffington Post, adding that the current rate of ice loss is twice as fast as the 1990s and three times as fast as the 1980s.
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Bravo. Sierra.
... and because of the melting there is more ice on average than any time in recorded history.
20 years .... out of millions or billions or gazillions !!!
What does it look like today? Your pic was 7 years ago.
The Earth has been on a warming trend since the end of the last ice-age. Until the next ice-age, that will continue. One day, those 2-mile thick glaciers will again cover much of North America. We won’t be able to do anything about that either.
And yet, temperatures have been cooler for the last 17 years.
We’ve caught them lying way too many times to even bother with checking the facts on the lies any more. BFYTW is the only response I have left.
Melting glaciers creates MORE habitable land.. more fresh water..
I fail to see the downside.. but I liked the movie “Water World”.. even tho it was a fantasy..
beats the hell out of GROWING Glaciers.. and a new ice age looming..
unless “cold fusion” can be invented.. AH but thats a fantasy as well..
Thorium Reactors is a good idea.. but “primates” tend to want to become politicians..
Primates just cannot understand that concept.. pity..
Pretend like the Globull Warming Hoax was true...
Giving most of your money and all of your freedom to the government won't fix it.
End of story.
Who is funding these studies?
Horse pucky
120 years of data is used to benchmark the “greatest decline in history.” I scoff.
But seriously, this is what happens at the end of mini ice ages.
I heard we’re due for a new ice age.
It starts Thursday.
Your link goes to the Alps.
If anyone has a convenient link to the Sperry glacier in MT, today, from roughly the same perspective it would be great if you could post that!
Thanks!
But the Socialists in the government don't want us to talk about that. Little wannabe dictators like Sheldon Whitehouse will put a gag order on our free speech if we dare to discuss sensible solutions.
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