Glacier National Park

Glacierless National Park – Estimate of Glacierlessness Halved Because West’s Temperatures Have Doubled Over 1992 Estimates

By Bruce Melton PEImpacts

One of the most often repeated impacts of climate change is the disappearance of the glaciers from Glacier National Park. The science has been that the year 2030 would see the melting of the last glacier. The glaciers of Glacier National Park have melted by 67 percent in the past hundred years. Unfortunately, temperatures in…

March 9, 2009

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

Glacierless National Park – Estimate of Glacierlessness Halved Because West’s Temperatures Have Doubled Over 1992 Estimates

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