You have to walk quite a way now to approach a glacier on the Ice
Highway in Canada. It is instructive to pass the dated signs where
the glaciers used to be. Columbia Glacier in Alaska is one of the
last sea going glaciers in Alaska according to the guide on last
summer's trip.
"As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along
shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago. Explorer
Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794,
and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more
than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more
than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.
By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated
48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr
inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay's mouth."
The fabled, but nonexistent Northwest Passage now exists because of
the melting polar ice cap. Someone navigated it last year.
Mostly people who don't believe there is global warming believe the
earth was created 6000 years ago.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Sep 11, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Mike wrote:
>
> Glaciers here in the PacNW are disappearing at a rapid rate. Some are
> totally gone, the rest much reduced. This has happened in my lifetime
> and I'm not _that_ old despite what others may say. Here's an example,
> same spot about 20 years apart
>
> http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/glacier.jpg
>
> Mike
>
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