The famous glaciers of the Rhone have shrunk several thousand feet in the last 20 years ; considerably more than 100 ft a year.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Ya’ know, I’m beginning to get a sneaking suspicion that glaciers have a tendency to both grow AND retreat. I can’t quite put my finger on why I’m thinking this… Oh, wait. Yes, I can…. The Great Lakes, scoured bedrock & massive boulders in NYC, terminal moraines all over the Midwest and thousands of carved mountains and valleys around the planet are proof that ice comes and goes in cycles. (Hint to the Klimate Klown Posse: It’s called “natural climate
cycleschange”I thought it was just Me and not T.O.O.L! 😆
This article references a study that says just that…
http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/06/03/rhone-glacier-finely-tuned-to-climate-changes/
They made the “Proper” claim in the article
“Co-author Joerg Schaefer, a geochemist and Lamont associate research professor, is concerned the findings could be misinterpreted by skeptics of climate change. They might conclude that, if the glacier is larger than it has been over most of the time during the past several thousand years, then there is little to worry about today.
“Which is simply wrong,” Schaefer said.”