The shrinking Lyell Glacier/NPS photos.
Is it time to start a pool over when the Lyell Glacier in Yosemite National Park is no longer classified as a glacier? Or when it vanishes from the landscape? Those are good questions to ask, as the glacier, the second largest in the Sierra Nevada according to the National Park Service, is continuing to shrink.
The National Park Service's Climate Change Response team says the glacier "has thinned rapidly over just the last few years. Note (in the accompanying photo) the newly exposed bedrock on the east (left) side; it's estimated the glacier may now be only 15-20 feet thick. Currently the glacier is losing on average about three feet of thickness each year. How much longer until it's gone?"
It was back in February 2013 when word came that the Lyell Glacier had stagnated, or ceased its downhill movement, while the adjacent Maclure Glacier was still moving at its historical rate, about one inch per day.
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I agree Lee, these guys lack functioning neurons. It's pointless, and wasting my time. Although, the only good thing about it is I end up finding more interesting articles when I search through these sites. So regardless, their blatant ignorance, indirectly adds to my research and knowledge. At least some purpose is gained from the futile efforts of attempting to pull their heads up from out of the sand.
No, it says from "several decades ago". It does not address the last two decades where temperatures have been flat. Why over the last two decades, with massive increases in CO2, have temperatures been flat? Temperatures rise and fall but CO2 emissions appear to have little if anything to do with it.
Keep dancing because I know you don't have an answer.
Longer than it will take you to come up with the name of someone that claims humans don't have an impact on earth or an example of Congress designating a park unit over the objection of the NPS.
My gosh, you are brain dead. Ok, I realize that i'm not dealing with a person that obviously paid ANY attention in math, or basic artithmetic so i'll attempt to point it out.
2014-20 = 1994.
1994 would be from 2 decades ago. Since 1994, 10 of the warmest years on record were during those 20 years. So, I guess, if you want to split hairs, then YES, if we want to dance around that the temperatures over the last 20 years are all trying to displace each other as the warmest years on record since the 1880s, then you MIGHT have a point. At that point, what's another "warmest year on record" trend when that just happened last year? So passe, right? A point that only proves the planet is getting warmer. And amazingly CO2 temeperatures continue to rise in conjunction. But hey... once again, we are back to just me posting the same thing over and over because you fail to understand basic concepts. This place continues to be the most infuriating web blog on the webisphere, and it's because of you.
Not fails to understand basic concepts. Refuses to understand.
Don't take him seriously. He enjoys goading people. I think it's called trolling the internet.
Trying to respond is about as effective as trying to respond to a two-year old's line of logic during a temper tantrum.
Stand back, take a deep breath and let the other readers of this site judge for themselves.
The only thing he's succeeding in doing is shutting down most of the good, thoughtful comments that once were common here. Let's not let him do that.
Try the IGNORE button.
No Lee - I fully understand your inabiltiy to back up your accusations/claims. You can't because there is no factual basis.
A recent article about the fire at Flight 93 Memorial was hijacked and shut down. I know this is probably unrelated to global warming and glaciers, but here's a link to an interesting article from Firehouse Magazine about the park service's struggle to protect objects in its many collections.
Because the original article was trolled to death, I'll post it here:
http://www.firehouse.com/news/11748466/flight-9-memorial-fire-shows-stru...
Be sure to read the nauseatingly politcal double-speak by Rep. Shuster near the end of the article.
And ten of the non warmest years were during those 20 years even thought CO2 emissions went up every year. Even the major proponents of AGW ( IPCC, NOAA) have admitted that the trend has been flat over the last 18 years. Has your consulting with scientist in the Smokys provided you contrary evidence?