Montana Glaciers Still Thriving Despite Warnings Of Them Melting By 2020

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Montana Glaciers Still Thriving Despite Warnings Of Them Melting By 2020
8 Comments / By Shay Bottomley / July 1, 2024

It’s 2024, meaning it’s four years since the glaciers in Montana were supposed to have melted.

A historic photo from Glacier National Park on the Canada-United States border highlights a claim that the glaciers “will be all gone by the year 2020”.

“The small alpine glaciers present today started forming about 7,000 years ago and reached their maximum in size and number around 1850, at the end of the Little Ice Age,” the sign claimed. “They are now rapidly shrinking due to human-caused climate change. Computer models indicate the glaciers will be all gone by the year 2020”. Spoiler alert: they’re still there.


The post by the X account @EndWokeness prompted debate among social media users, with some calling climate change “a hoax”.

https://wokespy.com/montana-glaciers-still-thriving-despite-warnings-of-melting-by-2020/

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[Smokin Joe]

Sure,they are melting. Most alpine glaciers do.

But they accumulate ice through snowfall at higher altitudes faster (and advance), at roughly equilibrium (remain fairly consistent in their position at the lower end), or melt faster than they accumulate at altitude (when the face of the glacier retreats up the valley it has carved). It's a dynamic system, even when it seems to be sitting still.