Posted by
Average Voter on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 10:30:42 PM
Could this be the start of
a reversal in the saga of melting Alaskan glaciers?
Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.
Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.
"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.
"In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years."
Where's the national news on this story? The MSM is quick to point out when
the ice is melting, yet two hundred years of ice shrinkage and suddenly a year of glacier growth and it made the Anchorage Daily News. It's a small miracle that it got to the paper at all, so a guess national coverage would be asking a bit too much.
