{"id":829,"date":"2019-11-26T05:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=829"},"modified":"2019-11-26T05:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:29:59","slug":"alpine-glaciers-disappearing-14-oct-1902-but-we-all-thought-they-started-disappearing-only-20-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. 14 Oct 1902. But we all thought they started disappearing only 20 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. (1902, October 14). Clarence and Richmond Examiner (Grafton, NSW : 1889 – 1915)<\/i>, p. 3. Retrieved November 26, 2019, fromhttps:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/61382631?searchTerm=alpine%20glaciers%20disappearing&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hotel-keepers in the Alps have a new trouble and are complaining at the loss of patrons. The attractive glaciers<\/span> are said to be actually passing from the landscape, and as they recede the hotels along their borders find their visitors becoming fewer.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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These glaciers<\/span> are not running away, by any means, but they are deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation. Hotels that a few years ago stood very near to a great river of slowly-moving ice now find themselves a considerable distance away.<\/div>\n
The famous glaciers<\/span> of the Rhone have shrunk several thousand feet in the last 20 years ; con-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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siderably more than 100ft a year.<\/div>\n
A number of the well-known glaciers<\/span> are also shrinking at about the same rate, and the fact is established that these reminders of the great glacial period are certainly disappearing.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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