The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87391   Message #2845389
Posted By: Amos
20-Feb-10 - 05:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where's the Global Warming
Subject: RE: BS: Where's the Global Warming
I don't know why I should do your legwork for you, pal.

To answer your question, a roughly estimated 100,000 exist. Some are growing, most receding.

The net mass of icebergs from those being monitored has declined continuously over the last 20 years. The measurement population, though, is between 29 and 80 glaciers.

Here's the World Glacier Monitoring website.

Here's an inventory of over 100000 glaciers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Here's the United States Geodetic Survey fact sheet giving their results.