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Saturday, July 6, 2019

Leftist kerfuffle over Glacier National Park "Gone By 2020" signs being removed

More details about 
last month's article 
about the quiet
removal of signs 
claiming glaciers
at Alaska's Glacier 
National Park
would be "gone by 2020"
( see photo included
with the first article,



The leftists are upset 
because climate change 
skeptics found and 
publicized yet another
of their (always) wrong 
climate predictions.

With 0% accuracy, 
their climate prediction
errors are legendary !

Glacier National Park 
officials quietly removed 
(glaciers) "gone by 2020" 
signs -- embarrassing, 
inaccurate predictions, 
typical of climate alarmists.

The very large 
three-dimensional 
diorama at the 
St. Mary visitor center
used to invite visitors 
to press a button.

The display lit up 
like a Christmas tree 
for the year "1850", 
then faded to dark 
for the year "2020" 
as all glacier indicator 
lights went out.

Last year the diorama 
displayed a painted sign 
stating that GNP’s glaciers 
were expected to entirely 
disappear by 2020.

Those meltdown forecasts 
had received lots of Obama 
Administration media 
attention, and the predictions
were repeated in The New York 
Times, National Geographic, etc.

Not reported by the media: 
 The "gone by 2020" claims 
quietly disappeared 
last winter at a time 
when the GNP visitor center 
was closed to the public.

Workers replaced the
"gone by 2020" engraving 
with a new sign saying 
the glaciers will be gone 
in "future generations."

Park Service claims of 
glacier disappearances 
were removed, or replaced, 
throughout GNP, 
with assurances that 
“everyone agrees 
glaciers are melting"; 
and that this ominous 
trend is "accelerating."

Two large steel trash cans 
at the Many Glacier Hotel, 
with "before and after" 
engravings, depicting 
significant shrinkage 
of the Grinnell Glacier 
between 1910 and 2009, 
quietly disappeared.

The National Park Service 
at GNP still displays 
black-and-white photos 
of glaciers 
from the 1920s,
with photos of 
the same glaciers 
taken in more 
recent years,
showing the glaciers 
had shrunk.

But glaciers grow and 
shrink every year.

Not explained is that glaciers 
tend to grow for nine months 
each winter, and melt for 
three months each summer. 

So any photo displays,
that do not show the
precise calendar dates,
may be very deceptive.

Photos could be
taken in two 
different months 
of the same year
and then used as 
climate propaganda.




Annual September
Lysander Spooner 
University research 
team visits report 
that the park’s 
most famous glaciers, 
the Grinnell Glacier 
and Jackson Glacier,
have been growing 
since 2010, not shrinking.

A display at the Jackson 
Glacier overlook along the 
Going-To-The-Sun Highway 
has two glacier photos: 
  One showing the glacier in 1911; 
and the other showing the glacier
in 2009, perhaps 10-20% smaller.

But those photos ignore
the fact that Jackson Glacier 
has grown 25%, or more, 
since the 2009 photo.

No mainstream media source
has exhibited any interest 
in the growth of GNP glaciers 
over the past ten years.