Athabasca glacier losing ice at an alarming rate

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Athabasca glacier losing ice at an alarming rate

Athabasca Glacier, the largest and most visited ice sheet forming the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park, is melting at such a fast rate that scientists fear it may be gone within the next generation. According to a recent report from a Parks Canada manager, Athabasca Glacier is losing more than 5 metres of ice on an annual basis. It has long been a favorite destination for tourists who board oversized snow coaches in order to see the historic glacier up close.

The glacier has been gradually decreasing in size over the past century and a half, despite the fact that it receives an average of seven metres of new snowfall every year. Jasper National Park officials say that they are becoming alarmed at the fast rate of ice lost on the Glacier, whose very existence is now being threatened. There are markers that were placed on the Glacier more than a century ago which indicate that the toe of Athabasca has receded by at least 1.5 kilometres, revealing a landscape filled with rock and gravel rather than ice and snow cover.

Measurements of the Columbia Icefield taken in 1994 estimated that it covered approximately 325 square kilometres. But now that measurement has shrunk to only 220 square kilometres, which proves to Park officials that not only is Athabasca Glacier receding in size, it is also becoming much more shallow. Even though winter snowfall has remained consistent, higher summer temperatures and a longer autumn season is making the snow disappear more rapidly than ever before. The U.S. National Climate Assessment recently reported that climate changes are causing glaciers throughout Alaska and British Columbia to shrink substantially and that they expect this rapid deterioration to be an ongoing trend. Shrinking glaciers will affect sea levels, ocean fisheries and hydro-power production.

Athabasca Glacier Losing Ice At Alarming Rate | eCanadaNow

 

[DaSleeper]

Just think........If you had put all those global warming articles in one thread instead of spamming us with a new thread every day......you probably would have beat "How about them Cannucks" thread of 7,590+ posts with your posts alone.........................

 

[petros]

It's been far lesser. Quit crying.

 

[Locutus]

Just think........If you had put all those global warming articles in one thread instead of spamming us with a new thread every day......you probably would have beat "How about them Cannucks" thread of 7,590+ posts with your posts alone.........................

Everyone else understands and that's why there are a couple of permanent on-going threads about climate for those that know the 'warming' bit is a crock. We post in the appropriate threads. We don't feel the need to 'be seen' more often, more frequently, as a boss-level contributor in the same tired subject.


Or something like that. ;-)

 

[EagleSmack]

He's a spamming troll. He knows he's lost and his religion is dying.

 

[MHz]

The receding glaciers in the Alberta Rockies is not such a bad thing for Alberta as they would be being evaporated rather than melted and that would be a 'sign' for the farmers down wind who would receive the rain might have to alter their crops and the warm wind coming earlier would seem to mean they would have a slightly longer growing season if you lived there More Chinooks per winter is a plus as longs as there is also a snowfall at their start.. The winds from the north came into play if they become the primary wind over Manitoba and all points east, of there, like Boston.

That would be climate change without it being a true warming or cooling as the ice lost in the west would be regained in the Great Lakes and other large bodies of water in that area. Having that ice come earlier and leave later would be global cooling where the melting in the Rockies would point to a global warming, not that hard to figure out where the construction should be taking place if that is an accurate prediction of the long term outlook. If you can't figure out to move to higher ground when the water is rising or move south when you are too chilly the world isn't going to miss you.

 

[Locutus]

He's a spamming troll. He knows he's lost and his religion is dying.

alarming

 

[EagleSmack]

Everyone else understands and that's why there are a couple of permanent on-going threads about climate for those that know the 'warming' bit is a crock. We post in the appropriate threads. We don't feel the need to 'be seen' more often, more frequently, as a boss-level contributor in the same tired subject.


Or something like that. ;-)

I say merge his. Just merge them.

 

[DaSleeper]

I say merge his. Just merge them.

Do you realize the amount of work that would involve? hundreds of threads?
Too late.....................

 

[Praxius]

He's a spamming troll. He knows he's lost and his religion is dying.

All this Global Warming Bombardment crap some are doing around the world only make the rest of us sick of hearing from them and only make us want to do less to stop it.

Maybe if we pollute more, the world will end, we'll all suffocate & drown sooner so we don't have to hear them b*tching and moaning any longer.

Global Warming Fanatics are why Emos exist.

 

[taxslave]

The sooner the glaciers melt the sooner it can be turned into farmland.

 

[MHz]

Enough global cooling and the Grand Banks could be farmland.

 

[Praxius]

You know how to save the glaciers and the arctic from melting and to get ice growing back?

^ If every household took a screwdriver to the ice in their freezers, loaded it up in some trucks and dumped it all where ice was needed, then all the world's problems would be solved.

I know.... I'm a frick'n genius.