Glaciers • Gcc – Global Climate Change

alaska’s melting glaciers could lead to major disturbances in climate

Published on: January 7, 2021 by Neal Umphred

LONG-STANDING ASSUMPTIONS concerning the succession of events that led to the retreat of the glaciers in the last Ice Age and the major disturbances in the planet’s atmosphere that followed have been turned on their head. Most scientists believe that the chain of events started in the North Atlantic Ocean, which then affected the Pacific Ocean. [Continue reading]

pink snow observed on presena glacier in italy

Published on: July 6, 2020 by Neal Umphred

MOST OF US HAVE SEEN BLUE ICE but what about pink ice? The headline of the article that attracted spurred me on to write this article is “Algae turns Italian Alps pink, prompting concerns over melting.” It appears on The Guardian website and was contributed by Agence France-Press (July 5, 2020). [Continue reading]

where there was once ice, there is now rock

Last Updated on: December 27, 2019 by Neal Umphred

YOU BROKE OUR GLACIER! That’s a damn clever teaser to get someone surfing the internet to stop a moment and check out the website. The article’s full title is “You broke our glacier: the Mont Blanc resort on the climate frontline” by Angela Giuffrida for The Guardian (September 28, 2019). [Continue reading]