Glaciers appear to be growing, not melting in recent years at Glacier National Park.
Officials at Glacier National Park (GNP) have begun quietly removing and altering signs and government literature which told visitors that the Park’s glaciers were all expected to disappear by either 2020 or 2030.
In recent years the National Park Service prominently featured brochures, signs and films which boldly proclaimed that all glaciers at GNP were melting away rapidly.
But now officials at GNP seem to be scrambling to hide or replace their previous hysterical claims while avoiding any notice to the public that the claims were inaccurate.
As featured on 8KPAX: “Glacier National Park is removing signs that state all glaciers will be melted by 2020 since they are not completely receding, but only slowly shrinking in ways much more complex than what was predicted. Therefore, the park must remove or update all signs around the park stating all glaciers will be melted by 2020. Because it is just wrong!”
Meanwhile, signs and exhibits have been updated at Glacier National Park, including at the Apgar, Logan Pass and St. Mary visitor centers. An exterior panel at St. Mary still displays out-of-date language but is planned to be replaced later in 2020.
Famous glaciers appear to have growing
Teams from Lysander Spooner University visiting the Park each September have noted that GNP’s most famous glaciers such as the Grinnell Glacier and the Jackson Glacier appear to have been growing – not shrinking-since about 2010.
The centerpiece of the visitor center at St. Mary near the east boundary is a large three-dimensional diorama showing lights going out as the glaciers disappear.
Visitors press a button to see the diorama lit up like a Christmas tree in 1850, then showing fewer and fewer lights until the diorama goes completely dark.
As recently as September 2018 the diorama displayed a sign saying GNP’s glaciers were expected to disappear completely by 2020.
But at some point during this past winter (as the visitor center was closed to the public), workers replaced the diorama’s ‘gone by 2020’ engraving with a new sign indicating the glaciers will disappear in “future generations.”
Almost everywhere, the Park’s specific claims of impending glacier disappearance have been replaced with more nuanced messaging indicating that everyone agrees that the glaciers are melting. Some signs indicate that glacial melt is “accelerating.”
A common trick used by the National Park Service at GNP is to display old black-and-white photos of glaciers from bygone years (say, “1922”) next to photos of the same glaciers taken in more recent years showing the glaciers much diminished (say, “2006”). Anyone familiar with glaciers in the northern Rockies knows that glaciers tend to grow for nine months each winter and melt for three months each summer. Thus, such photo displays without precise calendar dates may be highly deceptive.
Last year the Park Service quietly removed its two large steel trash cans at the Many Glacier Hotel which depicted “before and after” engravings of the Grinnell Glacier in 1910 and 2009. The steel carvings indicated that the Glacier had shrunk significantly between the two dates. But a viral video published on Wattsupwiththat.com showed that the Grinnell Glacier appears to be slightly larger than in 2009.
The ‘gone by 2020’ claims were repeated in the New York Times, National Geographic, and other international news sources. But no mainstream news outlet has done any meaningful reporting regarding the apparent stabilization and recovery of the glaciers in GNP over the past decade. Even local Montana news sources such as The Missoulian, Billings Gazette and Bozeman Daily Chronicle have remained utterly silent regarding this story.
So now, what will all the global warming talking heads say when the signs of the impending ice age become all the more glaring? FAKE NEWS? [WhattsUPWithThat via Sott]
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Funny, the NPS’s site says otherwise. One would tink that would be the easiers and fastest thing to change . . . https://home.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/glaciersoverview.htm
Glaciers aren’t growing.
This article seems to use the fact that signs were taken down as evidence that they’re growing, but it’s not evidence that it’s growing at all. The reasons the signs are being taken down is because glaciers are melting a slower rate than previously predicted, as the national park was informed in 2017. Where is any evidence that glaciers are bigger now than they were before?
Glaciers globally have been growing for the last 10 years, deal with it however you want
True they were growing in Alaska four years ago when we were there. As always, some are growing and some are shrinking. The National park servce has not changed their posts on their webpage for GMP tho. https://home.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/glaciersoverview.htm
Your website name hints at the underlying hoax behind your stories. Only the brain dead could believe that the glacial recession that we are witnessing worldwide is an alarming phenomenon that heralds disastrous consequences, the first being the absence of fresh water in distant locations dependent on glacial melt for irrigation of food crops as well as consumption by billions of people. Unfortunately, your gullible and ignorant audience satiates its addiction to false narratives. Yes, you are the enemy of the people as you contribute to our intentional destruction of life supporting conditions on the only planet our species can reach or survive.
lately this site is supsicious for me too.
but that’s not where we should find anyone to wash his head.
what about your parliament ?
This ice age is coming, Robert. Our carbon output is hastening that, and when it comes we’ll be out of fossil fuels.
Enlighten us on the hoax part of this story. The glaciers are growing or they aren’t. The park is replacing signs or they aren’t. You are so married to your hysteria that you can’t let the facts sink in. Greta…Greta??? Is that you?