Taku Glacier (AK), 1 Of World's Thickest Glaciers, Now Beginning To Melt (One Of Last That Hadn't)

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One of the world's thickest mountain glaciers is finally succumbing to global warming, a new analysis reports. The Taku Glacier north of Juneau, Alaska, has started to retreat as temperatures rise, said Mauri Pelto, a glaciologist at Nichols College in Massachusetts.

Up until now, of the 250 glaciers he has studied, all had retreated except one: Taku Glacier. But an analysis shows Taku has lost mass and joined the rest of the retreating glaciers.

“This is a big deal for me because I had this one glacier I could hold on to,” Pelto told NASA's Earth Observatory. “But not anymore. This makes the score climate change: 250, and alpine glaciers: 0.” New photos released by NASA this week show that the melting of Taku has at last become visible.

Taken in August 2014 and August 2019, the photos show the icy platforms where the glacier meets a river retreating for the first time since scientists began studying Taku in 1946, LiveScience said. Taku is one of the thickest known alpine glaciers in the world, measuring 4,860 feet from surface to bed. A study about the glacier's retreat was published last month in the journal Remote Sensing.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/07/climate-change-taku-glacier-starting-melt-due-global-warming/2517677001/

[SonofDonald]

1. Wow, just flippin wow

I was in Juneau for a month in the summer of 1989 and visited it three times

I'll have to dig up my old pics but I can see a huge difference from when I was there

My Son lives on Atka Island and he's says the winters have been getting warmer there

I know for a fact Alaska weather has changed dramatically since the 1940's when there were 50,000 men stationed in Dutch Harbor, it got down well below zero degrees every winter back then

When I lived in Dutch from the late 70's to the mid 90's it didn't get anywhere near that cold

No such thing as climate change.....