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  California. The Sierras. My backpacking instructor-Cal Poly Pomona- took us to see his favorite glacier up high near our 11,500 ft camp. He recalled it as actually a valley of ice w small pools of blue water and lots of fun boulders to scramble upon. 
  When we got there…nada. Just boulders. 
  This was in 1985.
context: Maybe it's in Shell's safety deposit box. >
  
  There's something almost every week now that has "climate emergency" written all over it. Kicking the can down the road has got to be taken off the table already. >
  
  Maybe too late. With permafrost fires we may be in a positive feedback loop. >
  
  While 'positive feedback loop' is more correct I use 'runaway reaction' when I explain it to people.  People have a habit of equating 'positive' with 'good'. >
  
  The amount of people who could not understand negative and positive feedback loops in my freshman college class no matter how it was explained was too damn high. >
  
  That reminds me of accounting class and people struggling to understand that credit and debit does not mean good and bad. >
  
  Tried to convert your username to text yielded empty translate screens on two different sites. 
  Has anybody, to your knowledge ever tried this before?
  If so, did they live to talk about it? >
  
  That’s 3 minutes of my life I would have spent scrolling Reddit, so thanks for giving me a laugh and something to do