Today we will examine glaciers found in the USA. Some here will recall all the talk of Glaciers melting. Glaciers can be found in nine U.S. states, but with about 100,000 of them — only 600 or so named — Alaska can rightly claim the “glacier state” title. And in Alaska, no place equals Wrangell St. Elias National Park and Preserve for its abundance of these icy formations. NATIONAL PARK GLACIERS See a Map See a map showing the glaciers of the world and where they exist within U.S. national park sites (most notably in Alaska). See more › Glaciers cover about 5,000 square miles — more than 25 percent — of the country’s largest national park. The superlatives don’t stop there. The park is home to North America’s largest piedmont glacier, Malaspina Glacier, which is a type of glacier formed at the base of a mountain. It also boasts the longest valley glacier, Nabesna Glacier, which is about 80 miles long. Bagley Icefield, made of interconnected glaciers, is 127 miles long, 6 miles wide and up to 3,000 feet thick. That is correct. More than 100,000 Glaciers in the USA. Did that make you gasp in relief? How many glaciers do you wish to be in the USA? https://www.npca.org/articles/1400-the-largest-concentration-of-glaciers-in-north-america
Before you snuggle up in fear, keep in mind when at Death Valley, CA, records were set as to heat. That was in 1913. I hope you are now more confident. Greenland has 99 percent of the Ice as it had in 1900. Feel so confident we are not about to perish.
High Temps Drop Great Lakes Ice Coverage Under 20%, Currently Stands At 16% February 24, 2021 by Michael Hardy March came in like a lamb, and the winter thaw is well underway. While the shallow areas of Saginaw Bay are still ice-covered, the Great Lakes ice coverage is waning fast. The other bays in the northern Great Lakes are still fully frozen, and surrounding areas are also seeing ice-over diminish. From early January until February 1st, the ice cover had increased a miserly three-tenths of a percent to 2.4%. However, the cold snap in early February caused the ice cover toward the normal range.
Here is an anecdote for you. This is Lake Oroville in California. The water should be up to the bridge. This lake and the supplies feeding it are major water supplies for farming and drinking water. Same here. I've been on this bridge many times.
Before the dams the rivers did what rivers do: rage and recede. THE problem today is the water management for the sake of fish, most notably the delta smelt and salmon. The is a move in the Capitol to declare the Delta Smelt extinct, thereby making it unnecessary to have high flows to help them breed. Salmon is in the crosshairs next. As northern California grows, water demands grow, and fish are politically expendable. Time will tell.
This is one of the reasons why I've been promoting the New Mexico biologist and coach Carl Cantrell alternative theory on stabilization of the climate through mega-scale desalination of ocean water to turn deserts green. www.BankingSystemsFlaws.blogspot.ca/
We need a bit of that stuff in Australia. (Driest continent on Earth). I doubt all life on earth will cease with global warming, though
How many glaciers if we don't count the state of Alaska? Apparently there are 8348 of them, comprising a total area of 689 square km. States With Glaciers | Glaciers of the American West That is only about a 16 by 16 mile area.
Ummm Robert - did you actually take time to READ the article you linked to? http://www.politicalforum.com/index...laciers-do-you-believe-are-in-the-usa.588861/
A fact that should have been seen as helpful to your side. It's no detriment to me if those on your side are unable to see the relevance.
If you go four-wheeling in the high country in the Colorado Rockies you definitely see that the glaciers are dwindling in number and in size. A couple of old ones that I always used to see above Ouray, Colorado headed up toward Engineer Pass are gone altogether. So, is there a 'climate-change' going on? It certainly seems that it is warmer and much drier out here than it was before. BUT, I doubt that hitting everybody in the world over the head with 'carbon-taxes' is going to change anything. Carbon Dioxide (as I've pointed out in the forum about a thousand times already) makes up only 0.04% of the Earth's atmosphere... and besides, CO2 is an organic molecule that is absolutely necessary for life even to exist on this planet! Still in all, enormous numbers of human beings play a large role in all this I'm sure. There are EIGHT BILLION of us on Earth now, and that's a staggering increase in just the last 100 years! And who among us actually causes the most trouble with the climate (to the extent that mankind is able to)? CHINA and INDIA (which, coincidentally, are the two most heavily-populated countries on the planet). If the 'carbon-tax' fanatics among us want to 'get in somebody's ass' about atmospheric pollution, those two countries are the proper places to begin!
