Ah, what a wonderous thing is global warming – it even causes glaciers:
The glaciers on Mount Shasta in California are growing because of global warming, experts say.
“When people look at glaciers around the world, the majority of them are shrinking,” said Slawek Tulaczyk, a University of California, Santa Cruz, professor who studied the glaciers.
But the seven glaciers on Shasta, part of the Cascade mountains in northern California, “seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean,” he said.
As the ocean warms, more moisture evaporates. As moisture moves inland, it falls as snow — enough on Shasta to more than offset a 1 C temperature rise in the past century.
The three smallest of the Shasta glaciers are more than twice the length they were in 1950.
Other glaciers in Norway, Sweden, New Zealand and Pakistan were in the same position as Shasta, but are now shrinking because rising temperatures have more than offset the increased snowfall.
Of course, they go on to say that 90% of the world’s glaciers are shrinking – which sounds like a made-up stat simply because most glaciers are in pretty inaccessible areas and thus can’t be measured and, more importantly, haven’t really been measured for any length of time which would permit us to say, definitively, that Glacier A is getting smaller overall than it used to be.
But is there anything that global warming can’t be used for? I heard on the radio the other day that global warming is causing a rise in kidney stones…I fully expect that global warming will eventually be blamed for literally everything…and the coolest thing about it is that no matter what happens, the global warming zealots can say it proves they are right…glaciers shrinking? Global warming. Glaciers growing? Global warming…and no fair pointing out that is some are growing and some are shrinking, wouldn’t this tend to indicate a cyclical nature of our climate rather than a theory that we’re all gonna die unless we listen to Al Gore?
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