The Rhone Glacier Then And Now

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1. cfgj says:

   June 29, 2015 at 7:05 pm

   The 2009 photo has no visible ice in it…
   http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/alps/rhonegletscher/rhonegletscher-00-08-en.html

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   • stevengoddard says:

     June 29, 2015 at 7:47 pm

     Clearly a carbon tax will stop a process that has been going on for hundreds of years.

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     • Disillusioned says:

       July 3, 2015 at 12:55 am

       A carbon tax will stop the recession of a glacier that was occurring clearly before the man-made global warming scare. Voodoo science works.

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   • gator69 says:

     June 29, 2015 at 8:16 pm

     cfgj, your comment has no visible intelligence in it.

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     • Gail Combs says:

       June 29, 2015 at 9:25 pm

       http://rhone.riverama.com/images/e6627-2469.jpg

       The Hotel Belvedere, the Glacier of the Rhone is hidden behind the Hotel, the river Rhone running down the rocks can be seen on the left.

       The Rhone Glacier

       The Rhone Glacier near the Furka pass (2431 m above sea level), is the source of the river Rhone. A belvedere and a hotel, located 3 km west of the Furkapass, allow the tourists to watch the Rhone Glacier from close and even to walk inside the glacier through a small tunnel dug in the ice. The tunnel must be dug again every year, since the glacier is a mass in movement.

       http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/31457/cimg6764.jpg

       http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/31457/glacier.jpg

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   • Disillusioned says:

     July 3, 2015 at 12:52 am

     cfgi – How much ice does the 1950 photo have in it?

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2. moreCarbonOK[&theWeatherisalwaysGood]HenryP says:

   June 29, 2015 at 7:49 pm

   I just checked temperatures in Zurich-Kloten, Switzerland: they have been declining at -.0.006K per annum since 2000;
   we can say -0.1K since 2000,
   which is essentially flat.
   it seems the aletsch gletscher -which I have visited myself – has grown in ice if you look at it in square km. Why look at length of gletschers [only] and then claim there is climate change?
   Just google aletsch and see what you get. -The 117.6km2 is the up to date area compared to 86.6km2 in 1973.

   @cfgj
   just check when the road on the right was built?

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3. dSC says:

   June 29, 2015 at 9:10 pm

   The trees are greener in the 2009 picture. Clearly another conformation of excess CO2!

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4. darrylb says:

   June 30, 2015 at 4:03 pm

   Interesting and valuable pictures–Thanks

   I had the pleasure of (army) winter survival training in part over a glacier near
   Fort Greeley by Delta Junction Alaska in December of 1976.
   Some of the best training I ever had.
   I wonder how the glacier looks now.

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5. Jim Steele says:

   June 30, 2015 at 11:51 pm

   Thanks Paul

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