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Thread #125806   Message #2789928
Posted By: GUEST,TIA
16-Dec-09 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: More Global Warming Things to Worry about
Subject: RE: BS: More Global Warming Things to Worry about
Of course you can find individual glaciers that are advancing. But the vast vast majority are retreating. The global mass balance or mean volume of all glaciers as a function of time is plotted here.

If you look, you will see nearly constant decline (since monitoring began in the 1940s), with a precipitious drop-off beginning in the mid-1990s.

You will also note that there was a brief period of increasing glacial mass in the late 1960s. This is part of what sparked the very brief popular (but never a scientific consensus) view that an new ice age might be approaching.

It is disingenuous and a logical fallacy to try to refute current "global" changes with specific local examples.