{"id":955,"date":"2019-12-12T05:42:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=955"},"modified":"2019-12-12T05:42:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:42:19","slug":"receding-glaciers-18-aug-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"RECEDING GLACIERS. 18 Aug 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"

RECEDING GLACIERS. (1917, August 18). The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette (NSW : 1900 – 1928)<\/i>, p. 7. Retrieved December 12, 2019, fromhttps:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/108604130?searchTerm=glaciers%20are%20now%20on%20the%20retreat&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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Except over a small area, it is generally understood, the<\/span> glaciers<\/span> of the <\/span>world are<\/span> retreating<\/span> to the<\/span> mountains.<\/div>\n
The<\/span> glacier on<\/span> Mount Sermiento in South America, which descended to the<\/span> sea when’ Darwin<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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found it in 1836, is now<\/span> separated from the<\/span> shore by a vigorous growth of timber.<\/div>\n
The<\/span> Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated<\/span> four miles since 1850, and the<\/span> East glac-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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ier in Spitzbergen is more than a mile away from its original terminal moraine.<\/div>\n
In Scandinavia the<\/span> snow line is further up the<\/span> mountains, and the<\/span> glaciers<\/span> have withdrawn<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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3,000ft. from the<\/span> lowlands in a century.<\/div>\n
The<\/span> Araphoe glacier in the <\/span>Rocky Mountains, with characteristic American enterprise, has been<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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melting at a rapid rate for several years.<\/div>\n
In the<\/span> Eastern Alps and one or two other small districts the<\/span> glaciers are<\/span> growing.<\/div>\n
In view of these facts we should not be too sceptical when old men assure us that winters nowadays are<\/span> not to be compared with the<\/span> winters of their boyhood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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