1910 Receding Glaciers. 1963 Glaciers Grow. 2019 They’re On Fire! But Not Really. Or it’s Just Cyclical
Except over a small area, it is generally understood, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the moun-
tains. The glacier on Mount Sermiento in South America, which descended to the sea when Darwin found it in 1836, is now separated from the shore by a vigorous growth of timber.
The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated four miles since 1850, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a mile away from its original terminal moraine. In Scandinavia the snowline is further up the mountains, and the glaciers have withdrawn 3,000ft. from the lowlands in a century.
The Araphoe glacier in the Rocky Mountains, with characteristic American enterprise, has been melting at a rapid rate for several years.
In the Eastern Alps and one or two other small districts the glaciers are growing. In view of these facts we should not be too sceptical when old men assure us that winters nowadays are not to be compared with the winters of their boyhood.
In Norway OSLO (A.A.P.-Reuter). —
Norway’s glaciers are in the process of becoming thicker again after a period of 200 years of gradually melting down, according to glaciologist, Mr. Olav Liestol.
Last year nearly all glaciers increased by more than one metre — approximately four feet.
Mr. Liestol does not fore-see another ice age, but says that if Norway gets a series of years with a cold mean
temperature, people must expect the glaciers gradually to creep further down into the valleys again.