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Mount Shasta Glaciers Growing
Including
three-mile-long Whitney, the state's largest
Oct 12, 2003.
All seven glaciers on California's Mount Shasta are growing, says Slawek Tulaczyk,
a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This
includes three-mile-long Whitney, the state's largest. Not only are
the glaciers growing, three of them have doubled in size since 1950.
Meanwhile, seven smaller glaciers in California's Sierra Nevada are
smaller than they were 100 years ago.
This story, written by Usha Lee McFarling at the Los Angeles
Times, should have been front page news. But no, it was published
on page B1. In the Seattle Times, it was published on page
16.
But did the headlines mention growing glaciers?
Not on your life.
The L.A. Times shrieked "Sierra Glaciers
in Rapid Retreat." In Seattle,
the headline
read "California Glaciers Altered by Climate."
I'll leave it up to you. Are these headlines misleading or not?
This article came out in 2003. A
later article in 2008, written by Samantha Young, confirmed that all
seven glaciers were still growing.
http://www.iceagenow.com/California_Glaciers_Growing.htm
Back to List of Expanding Glaciers
See also Growing_Glaciers
See also Greenland
Icecap Growing Thicker
See also Antarctic
Icecap Growing Thicker
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