"UK Guardian: "The funeral, a stunt held by worried glacier researchers on the steps of the state capitol in Salem...
Worried researchers hold ceremony for Clark glacier to illustrate how the climate crisis is eroding ice packs.
‘It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self’: funeral for an Oregon glacier.
"The funeral was a suitably solemn affair. The small casket was placed on a table covered in a black drape, a maudlin yet defiant speech quoted a Dylan Thomas poem, a moment’s silence was held. Inside the casket, however, was not a body, but a vial of meltwater."
Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore responds: "Ridiculous, a requiem for melting ice.
Glaciers are not alive. Now some trees will be able to grow where the glacier had rendered the land lifeless.
There is nothing “good” about glaciers except perhaps their scenic appeal.
When they advance they gouge massive scars in the landscape, destroying all life before them.
Would the 'greens' prefer that the glaciers were advancing into what is forest and farmland today?
Or do they think glaciers can just freeze in time and never shrink or advance again?
Given the choice between advancing versus retreating I say let them melt in peace to expose new land for greening.
Our CO2 emissions will accelerate the greening so the Earth will be more bountiful as it was before this Pleistocene Ice Age set in 2.5 million years ago, ending 250 million years of a much warmer climate during which life flourished from pole-to-pole."
2019: Media still hyping melting glaciers despite historical context of faster melting in 1930s–
Study finds glaciers in Glacier National Park retreated up to 6 times faster during the 1930’s than the past 40 years — Paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews
When scientists do such emotional, irrational things like holding funerals for glaciers, you know that person is now practicing political science.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/02/its-like-a-rotting-carcass-of-its-former-self-funeral-for-an-oregon-glacier?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
GLACIERS
Some glaciers melted faster before 2nd half of 20th century — Leading Arctic Researcher Shows That Glacial Melt Slowed Substantially Since 1952 — ‘Leading Arctic expert William Carlson said that glaciers in Norway & Alaska lost half their size during the fifty years before 1952.
Had that rate of loss continued, there would have been no glaciers left in Alaska or Norway by 2002.
Given that there are glaciers remaining, we can infer that the rate of ice loss was slower in 2nd half of century than it was in 1st half of century’ "