Is there nothing that anthropogenic global warming can’t do?
From the Climate Change Expected Anomalies Department:
The glaciers on Mount Shasta, near the California-Oregon border, are growing, not receding, as a result of changing weather patterns over the Pacific Ocean. That’s not happening to any other glaciers in the lower 48 states.
“When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking,” said Slawek Tulaczyk, an assistant professor of earth sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led a team studying Shasta’s glaciers. “These glaciers seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean.”
Actually, we know little about the majority of the glaciers around the world. In fact, one of the most famous examples, Mt. Kilimanjaro, is melting not because of global warming, but deforestation, which, in my mind, is a more important issue then the output of CO2, a natural gas needed for life.
Going to the full story
Warmer temperatures have cut the number of glaciers at Montana’s Glacier National Park from 150 to 26 since 1850, and some scientists project there will be none left within 25 to 30 years. The timeline for the storied snows at Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro is even shorter, while the ice fields of Patagonia in Argentina and Chile also are retreating.
Wait, what ended around the mid 1800’s? That’s right, the Little Ice Age. And, surprise surprise, they mention Kilimanjaro. I actually wrote the above bit before going to the full story.
“It’s a bit of an anomaly that they are growing, but it’s not to be unexpected,” said Ed Josberger, a glaciologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in Tacoma, Wash., who is currently studying retreating glaciers in Alaska and the northern Cascades of Washington.
Dr. Evil voice: riiiiiiiiiight. Because global warming climate change now causes everything. Probably the next ice age, too.
