By Robert Felix ——Bio and Archives--May 29, 2014
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"Stumps from an ancient forest emerged in July from their ice tomb," the article continues. "Some still have their bark."This article by Mary Catharine Martin really caught my attention because many years ago I lived just a quarter mile in front of the Mendenhall Glacier. My wife and I visited it often, took our dog for walks there, and corralled ice from the glacial lake for our scotch on the rocks. I was wary of ice worms, of course, but I figured the alcohol would kill them. (Young guys are invincible, don't you know?) But I digress. Global warming zealots must have been overjoyed when they read that headline, because to them it's proof of global warming. But I see it a different way. I see it as undeniable proof that it has been warmer in the past.
"In Glacier Bay, Connor and other researchers have found evidence of ice advances more than 5,000 years ago. They’ve also documented the glacial advance between 1724 and 1794 A.D. that pushed Huna Tlingit off their land, and written a paper incorporating those cultural and geographic histories. In that paper they cite Tlingit histories recorded by Richard and Nora Dauenhauer as saying that glacier was growing and advancing 'faster than a running dog.'"Even today, the Taku Glacier south of Juneau is slowly advancing, pushing live cottonwoods out of the way, says Martin. It's the only glacier of the 32 glaciers in the Juneau ice-field that is now advancing. (Let me point out however, that as a whole the Juneau ice-field, which is the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere, is growing.
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Robert W. Felix is author of Not by Fire but by Ice, and publisher of iceagenow.info