Glaciers Retreat

Even though there were negative melting anomalies observed in 2008 and 2009, (quote) "..ice core records, bore-hoe meaurements, and station observations indicating warming over the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica for the past 50-100 years." American Geophysical Union (AGU) EOS Transactions, Vol. 91, No. 1, 5 January 2010. All glaciers shown in presentation have been visited by Travelking111. The Athabascar Glacier in the Canadian Rockies, has been retreating for many years now, and there are physical markers (signs) to show the position of the glacier at the different years.
The presentation seems short and music not allowed to finish......like the lifes of these glaciers.....

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• Global Warming
• glaciers
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• Al Gore

[judomagyar]

how do you like the -3C in Canberra in august of 2010?

[TravelKing111]

@judomagyar Proof of climate change and warming of the earth goes beyond the variations in local weather of individual cities or even regions. If the weather fluctuations seem more extreme nowadays in any one place, climate scientists are studying and researching to link that phenomenon to man's growing footprint on the earth.

[judomagyar]

@TravelKing111

Also, the Antarctic Ice is growing!

CO2 footprint is irrelevant. It is what the Sun is doing what counts.

[TravelKing111]

@judomagyar From NASA webpage: Gravity data collected from space using NASA's Grace satellite show that Antarctica has been losing more than a hundred cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice each year since 2002. The latest data reveal that Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate, too. How is it possible for surface melting to decrease, but for the continent to lose mass anyway? The answer boils down to the fact that ice can flow without melting.

[xychen123]

This a very educational video. It tells us that it is time for action on global warming!

[TravelKing111]

You are so right, xychen! Thank you!

[hvacfox]

Very vivid pictures, absolutely educational video, thanks for sharing, tranvelking111!

[airwarp]

Beautiful pictures, and such a reminder of global warming. The poetry was as good as usual.

[fishac1]

I think i may not see the same scenes even if I have the chance to go to Patagonia, Chile because of the effects of climate change. More people should watch this video and take action!

[judomagyar]

NASA website: global annual, temperature anomalies for the last decade. year temp-anomaly 2001 0.59 2002 0.66 2003 0.68 2004 0.63 2005 0.82 2006 0.75 2007 0.78 2008 0.59 2009 0.64 Does this look like a warming trend? If you don't like this data, complain at NASA.

[judomagyar]

@TravelKing111

Google this:

"Global Warming Protects Antarctic Sea Ice — But Not For Long"

Here they state that then Antarctic sea ice has grow to 3rd largest on record this year. But don't despair they already found a way to blame it on global warming. :-)

[judomagyar]

@TravelKing111

Well here is a paper that is much better than the Al Gore crap.

"Cosmic rays and climate" by Jasper Kirkby

CERN Colloquium, 4 June 2009

[11thecommenter]

Short and to the point with the abrupt cut-off for artistic effect...poignant!