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Glaciers on the Climate Dashboard

52 pointsby mooredstoday at 4:38 PM3 commentsview on HN

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sys32768today at 5:42 PM

George Bird Grinnell, the "Father of Glacier National Park", made a final visit to his namesake Grinnell glacier in 1926 and then wrote in his diary [1]:

>"the glacier is melting very fast and the amount of water coming from it is great. All these glaciers are receding rapidly and after a time will disappear."

[1] = https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/repeat-photos-of-grinnell-g...

nehal3mtoday at 5:26 PM

The graph for cumulative glacier mass balance is quite sobering. The loss seems to be accelerating as well. This stuff is so depressing.

koopstoday at 5:12 PM

They should mention thermal expansion, which is also a major driver of sea-level rise.