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Fifty-Year Record of Glacier Reveals Shifting Climate in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, USA
U.S. Geological Survey, August 2009, online edition, various paging
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This report shows that glaciers are dramatically changing in mass, length and thickness as a result of climate change. Over the past 50 years, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientists have monitored the melting of Alaska’s Gulkana and Wolverine Glaciers and Washington’s South Cascade Glacier, yielding the longest such records in North America."
Go to the report at:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3046/


D11/05-09 Posted September 7, 2009

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