{"id":3572,"date":"2009-12-31T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/12\/7-glaciers-melting\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:30:00","slug":"7-glaciers-melting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2009\/12\/7-glaciers-melting\/","title":{"rendered":"7 glaciers melting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me: 7 Glaciers melting…<\/h2>\n

All over the world, where there are glaciers, those glaciers are not as large as they once were a century, or even a few decades, ago:<\/p>\n

Boulder Glacier, Glacier National Park, USA<\/i><\/h4>\n

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1910<\/b><\/p>\n

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2007
Source: USGS Repeat Photography Project<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Athabasca Glacier, Canadian Rockies<\/i><\/h4>\n

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Photo by Idle Moor<\/a>, downloaded from Panoramio<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

Tschierva glacier, Swiss Alps<\/i><\/h4>\n

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1880<\/b><\/p>\n

\"tschierva_2004.jpg\"\/
2004
Source: swisseduc.ch<\/a><\/b>
(other retreating Alpine glaciers<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Helheim Glacier, Greenland<\/i><\/h4>\n

\"Helheim2001.jpg\"\/<\/p>\n

\"Helheim2005.jpg\"\/
Source: NASA Earth Observatory<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Upsala Glacier, Patagonia<\/i><\/h4>\n

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Source: JAXA Earth Observation Research Center<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Gangotri Glacier, Himalayas<\/i><\/h4>\n

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Source: NASA Earth Observatory<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Tasman Glacier, Southern Alps, New Zealand<\/i><\/h4>\n

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Source: NASA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Glaciers are dynamic systems, but although there are some complexities<\/a> in interpreting the behaviour of any individual one, when you see the same rapid shrinking trend in all of these different parts of the world, you stop looking for local causes<\/a>.
\nAs it is the New Year, and with the failure to reach any concrete agreement to cut our greenhouse gas emissions in Copenhagen still smarting, we should perhaps use this time to consider our own culpability in the mess. For until our leaders believe that they will gain more votes for making the hard choices than they will lose for damaging economic growth – until, in other words, we in the developed world start thinking that rather than becoming a little materially richer next year, it would be better if we made our planet a little less worse – the stalemate will continue. And whilst we rail against the failure of those we elect to curb our excesses, we buy more things, and use more energy, and worry if our economy does not grow at more than 3% a year. Somehow, no matter how much we have, there never seems to be a time when we will say, ‘we have enough’.
\nPerhaps the fault, dear readers, lies not within our politicians, but within ourselves.<\/p>\n

…6 fields a-flipping<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

5 focal mechanisms<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

4 index fossils<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

3 Helmholtz coils<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

2 concordant zircons<\/a>,<\/h4>\n

and an APWP<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 7th day of Christmas my true love sent to me…
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