{"id":304,"date":"2019-09-17T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=304"},"modified":"2019-09-17T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T23:07:16","slug":"1910-receding-glaciers-1963-glaciers-grow-2019-theyre-on-fire-but-really-or-its-just-cyclical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=304","title":{"rendered":"1910 Receding Glaciers. 1963 Glaciers Grow. 2019 They&#8217;re On Fire! But Not Really. Or it&#8217;s Just Cyclical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"10950610\" data-x=\"1676\" data-y=\"1296\" data-w=\"659\" data-h=\"90\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\"><span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"2010\" data-y=\"1338\" data-w=\"221\" data-h=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/100784966?searchTerm=glaciers%20melting%20over%20greenland&amp;searchLimits=\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/100784966?searchTerm=glaciers%20melting%20over%20greenland&amp;searchLimits=<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"10950610\" data-x=\"1672\" data-y=\"1403\" data-w=\"654\" data-h=\"564\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Except <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1851\" data-y=\"1430\" data-w=\"75\" data-h=\"21\">over<\/span> a small area, it is generally understood, the <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"2067\" data-y=\"1463\" data-w=\"133\" data-h=\"37\">glaciers<\/span> of the world are retreating to the moun-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">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.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">The Jacobshaven glacier in <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1795\" data-y=\"1799\" data-w=\"174\" data-h=\"29\">Greenland<\/span> 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 <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1834\" data-y=\"2048\" data-w=\"133\" data-h=\"39\">glaciers<\/span> have withdrawn 3,000ft. from the lowlands in a century.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">The Araphoe glacier in the Rocky Mountains, with characteristic American enterprise, has been <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"1678\" data-y=\"2258\" data-w=\"129\" data-h=\"39\">melting<\/span> at a rapid rate for several years.<\/div>\n<div class=\"read\">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.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/109898436?searchTerm=glaciers%20grow%20in%20norway&amp;searchLimits=\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/109898436?searchTerm=glaciers%20grow%20in%20norway&amp;searchLimits=<\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"11463421\" data-x=\"4276\" data-y=\"1021\" data-w=\"639\" data-h=\"250\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\"><span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4514\" data-y=\"1192\" data-w=\"142\" data-h=\"80\">In<\/span> <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4656\" data-y=\"1192\" data-w=\"142\" data-h=\"80\">Norway <\/span>OSLO (A.A.P.-Reuter). \u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"11463421\" data-x=\"4276\" data-y=\"1273\" data-w=\"639\" data-h=\"952\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\"><span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4289\" data-y=\"1350\" data-w=\"115\" data-h=\"57\">Norway&#8217;s<\/span> <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4404\" data-y=\"1350\" data-w=\"115\" data-h=\"57\">glaciers<\/span> are <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4634\" data-y=\"1350\" data-w=\"115\" data-h=\"57\">in<\/span> the process of becoming thicker again after a period of 200 years of gradually melting down, according to glaciologist, Mr. Olav Liestol.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Last year nearly all <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4754\" data-y=\"1667\" data-w=\"106\" data-h=\"54\">glaciers <\/span>increased by more than one metre \u2014 approximately four feet.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Mr. Liestol does not fore-see another ice age, but says that if <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4476\" data-y=\"1938\" data-w=\"96\" data-h=\"51\">Norway<\/span> gets a series of years with a cold mean<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">temperature, people must expect the <span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"4514\" data-y=\"2070\" data-w=\"116\" data-h=\"54\">glaciers<\/span> gradually to creep further down into the valleys again.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/100784966?searchTerm=glaciers%20melting%20over%20greenland&amp;searchLimits= Except over a small area, it is generally understood, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the moun- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55,227,231,229,54,228,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}