Athabasca glacier retreat over time

Sep 17, 2020 9:16 PM

TomDuffy

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I just got to this part of Death Stranding, no spoilers.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The order of these pictures confuses me

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

You know glaciers have been moving BOTH ways for-ever right?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We visited on our honeymoon & then on our 35th anniversary. Stunned by the change.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is in southern Alberta Canada

5 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Home of our oil industry and the idiots who support it.

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I don’t even get mad anymore. I just laugh on the outside and cry on the inside.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Same, 100%, but remember that numbness and apathy work in their favor. Stay active, stay vocal.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

what do we need to do to stop climate change beside massive purge of human life?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Was just there last summer. Was a disheartening walking past all the markers.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There’s my Juul!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What is really serious is those first 2 pics that show the far end of the glacier up valley had no rocks showing through until 2-3 years ago

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Juul for scale

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Fuck thats where i left my juul

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuckin humans. Yet y'all won't change ya habits. Yell "yeah science!" and continue to opose science. Some twats around here. Ugh.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There’s a sign like that in Wisconsin...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is, that a vape?

5 years ago | Likes 145 Dislikes 5

Yes, it was deposited out of the ice. Fuckin hipster homo habilii.

5 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Yep, it's a thing called vype that we have in Canada

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

America has the same but called vuse

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yup dam kids and their juuls

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I'd reckon it's for scale. Still don't know how big it is without a banana nearby...

5 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

That one there is about as big as your standard juul

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nope, Athabasca Glacier.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A juul for scale!!

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

been up there circa 1982 medman

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It really is surprising how much scientists around the world are literally moving glaciers to convince people of global warming /S

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Cool beanarinos

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Have they tried raking the leaves?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Was there in late 80s and early 90s. To see how it is now is sad/terrifying

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Global warming / climate change is slow in areas that aren't extreme, then suddenly - it becomes the thing that life itself can't stop.

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Yup. Climate changes like the rich man lost his money. At first a little at a time, then all at once

5 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Are you talking about current one or previous ones that happened thousands and millions years ago? Not all were so sudden

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The human made one since the 1800's even https://imgur.com/t/climate_change_deniers/nLxvENs knew in the 80's

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yep.This planet needs a fucking reboot, noone wants to deal with overpopulation so just let nature handle it they way it does. #trump2020

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 3

At this rate the early ones to go will be Americans First...

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Haha we will be fine, don’t you worry. Well, we need to make our border more secure for sure(at least as secure as Canadian one) #trump2020

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

This is what Biden's Canada will look like.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Was there last weekend and showed my kids where it was when I was born. They looked WAY over to the ice then at me like I was a dinosaur.

5 years ago | Likes 342 Dislikes 1

I’m with you. I was there in 1988. The ice was waaaaaay lower then.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And then you lifted your giant Brontosaurus neck, and said...

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Literally had this talk with my nephew 2 weeks ago. I dont like going there anymore

5 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

Its depressing. When they built the first version of the road/trail it was damn near touching it.

5 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

I've heard. The only plus is all the fossils being exposed now. I didnt go for the first time until the late 80s

5 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Bro, I told my son we didn’t have internet or cell phones when I was young, and that we played outside, climbed trees, played with sticks &

5 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Rocks and stuff and it was super fun. He didn’t believe me, then laughed, and once he realized I was serious he got rly quiet and stared at

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

His hands for a few before saying, “that makes me so sad for you mama! I’d cry without Netflix & the internet”. I’m like me too kid, me too!

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

We had books too. Haha

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lol exactly! And we LIKED IT!

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What a stupid, vapid, malignant POS

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Did, did you just put an E-cig on a receding glacier for scale?

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Maybe it's banana flavored

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

A disposable e-cig? Like with a battery that get tossed in a land fill? Like a toxic disposable battery?

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That’s a juul. Reusable

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The consumption of the individual is a pittance compared to the effects of the companies which orchestrated and fed consumerism to begin w/.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

do you vote? i mean why even bother, the action of one can't possibly blablablabla

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I vote. Good attempt at equivalence but that's a bit of a long topic for comments innit?

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

sometimes just doing your part is all you can do, so why not do it, thats how things move

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So how far did it go from 35-42 before so much of the world was industrialised?

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So, this was actually really hard to figure out. The maps of the area are not great. The best answer I can give you is that the amount (1)

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of ice loss experienced worldwide by glaciers between 1960 and 1970 is roughly a third of what was experienced between 1995 and 2005. (2)

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The rate of rise is exponential in the latter period, so the average rate of loss in the 1930s was probably minimal by comparison. (3)

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The earth was already warming naturally. Humans are just accelerating it.

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The early 1900s was when industrialization started to "outweigh" natural variations in global temperature. (1/2)

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Though it didn't start to escalate like it is now till the 1970s onwards. I'd read about this on your own, imgur comments can't cover it 2/2

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

P.s. fact check everything, this is an imgur comment and I can't exactly source stuff here. 100% read about this and understand it yourself.

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5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Well, you don't so... problem solved

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What?

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Holy shit that joke just went right over my head. +1

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So did you

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Clearly put there by Science. I don't think Science knows, actually.

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that's funny sick sad haha cry

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I’m so fucking afraid to be in america right now.

5 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Leave science alone, he's done nothing but help you.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh you

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Whether or not we take measures global warming will happen, we can't stop it. Wer'e exiting the recent ice age and entering 1/3

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

An interglacial period (warming). With that said we should do it sustainable to make sure we don't kill out selves off before the next 2/3

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Trough or exaggerate the peak interglacial temps 3/3

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Watch it’ll get colder

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Yeah, October is always colder than September

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Nuclear winter will see to that.

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Oh I heard that was true, based on the documentary video game, Frostpunk

5 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I mean, eventually, when the sun burns out, yeah

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Just. You. Wait.

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Do you think he meant December?

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Almost certainly. After all, don’t ya just know that the climate is ALWAYS changing? Winter is coming lelelel. In all seriousness, vote.

5 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I'm not laughing anymore. I'm putting my vote in my mouth

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Put it in the ballot instead, it’ll count more

5 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

I've got my vote on the steel toe of my boot, waiting.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Sir, please stop chewing on the ballots... that's really not sanitary!"

5 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

I'll show you! I'll chew them at space speed!

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