by admin_37678 | Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
In a previous post I speculated that contrary to conventional notions, a cooling Sun might shrink glaciers and raise sea levels. I suggested that less solar radiation (as signified by lower sunspot numbers, SSNs) leads most significantly to less evaporation of...
by admin_37678 | Mar 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Denver Post reported a grim future for Colorado’s glaciers [1]. The leading paragraph of that 2018 story notes “As warmer temperatures creep up higher in altitude, Colorado’s 14 glaciers are melting faster and faster. Glaciers that once stored key...
by admin_37678 | Feb 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
I noted earlier that Glacier National Park (GNP) in Montana, US., was recently directed by the USGS to stop broadcasting through signage that their glaciers would disappear in a few more decades. But as I sift through the data and narratives associated with this, it...
by admin_37678 | Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Recent papers add to the growing and most watery weights of evidence which may signify a persistent and robust contribution of Solar Cycles to the expansions and contractions of Himalayan ice fields/glaciers within our geostrophic atmosphere. Or maybe not. This is...
by admin_37678 | Jan 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
With some caveats, it is not even controversial that glaciers would grow in a warming world. I think the notion is plausible if loosely interpreted. But don’t only take my word for it, consider the words of NASA glaciologist Jay Swally: “At the end of...