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Comox Glacier August 14 2014
See all three photos in Shrinking Comox Glacier Album (Set)
www.flickr.com/photos/7292946@N08/sets/72157645980410590/
The top of the glacier used to be as high as the highest piece of the mountain that now sticks up higher than the ice. It's not only shrinking in area covered but also depth of ice is shrinking too - latest estimates are that the glacier is 60 meters thinner than it was in the 1930s. Some of our drinking water comes from the glacier but most comes from melting accumulations of snow in the mountains and spring rains. Recent years have been drought-like in this rainforest due to cooler, drier winters and springs and hotter drier summers and autumns.
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/glacier-melt-worldwide-now-cau...
In the 1970s there were 170 glaciers on Vancouver Island, there are now only 4 and the Comox Glacier is the largest remaining glacier.
Our thanks for your visits, faves and comments!
Comox Glacier August 14 2014
See all three photos in Shrinking Comox Glacier Album (Set)
www.flickr.com/photos/7292946@N08/sets/72157645980410590/
The top of the glacier used to be as high as the highest piece of the mountain that now sticks up higher than the ice. It's not only shrinking in area covered but also depth of ice is shrinking too - latest estimates are that the glacier is 60 meters thinner than it was in the 1930s. Some of our drinking water comes from the glacier but most comes from melting accumulations of snow in the mountains and spring rains. Recent years have been drought-like in this rainforest due to cooler, drier winters and springs and hotter drier summers and autumns.
www.cbc.ca/news/technology/glacier-melt-worldwide-now-cau...
In the 1970s there were 170 glaciers on Vancouver Island, there are now only 4 and the Comox Glacier is the largest remaining glacier.
Our thanks for your visits, faves and comments!