Glaciers Are Disappearing Almost As Fast As You Can Ski Down Them | Climate Games

Diana, this is embarrassing unscientific alarmist nonsense.   Glaciers have receded much faster in the past, e.g. look at the historical data for Glacier Bay Alaska, or Jakobshaben in Greenland, which we also have over 100 years of historical data. Likewise the European Alps.   The planet has been much warmer in the recent and distant past.  Look at the GISP and Vostok ice core data.  The period from 600AD to 1750AD  has been the longest cold period in the last 9000 years.  What we have seen in the last 300 years is just a natural recovery from this Little Ice Age, and glaciers with their enormous thermal mass take centuries to thaw out and melt. Look at the map of where the Glacier Bay glacier fronts were in the 18th Century, they recession rate was actually much higher rate in the 1800s and early 1900s, long befiore anthro CO2 emissions could have had any impact (which the IPCC admits  was not until the 1950s).   Yes, the glaciers like Helheim speeded up in the early 2000s, but they have slowed down again since, (but you never hear this).  There are multiple factors for variable glacier speeds and recession rates (cloud cover, precipitation, sublimation etc), but natural cycles like the AMO and PDO are key on the global scale, not surfaces temperatures which are way below zero for most of the year at most glacier termina.    Very dissapointed to see you falling for and pushing this nonsense climate alarmism agenda.   Please do your own research, don't just go with the press releases from Greenpeace and headlines from the Guardian, NYT and the BBC.  Sadly some of the scientific journals have also been corrupted - climate science is now a self-sustaining billion dollar industry, in which the institutions and universities only fund research which conforms to the narrative.  Meanwhile real environmental problems like habitat destruction and pollution of land,  rivers and oceans are being ignored.  btw, I have a first in env. sciences, and I went along with the climate~CO2 narrative for 15 years, until I strarted to research climate history (and I read the climategate emails and Andrew Montford's book on the Hockey Stick Illusion, which confirmed everything I had beguns to suspect).  If you can't get a copy of the HSI, read this as a taster - http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html