21 Jul 1932 – A Warmer World. – Trove
Spring Multibeam Cruise in Glacier Bay Provides Spectacular Images
National Geographic : 1896 Apr, Page 138
16 Aug 1902 – Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. – Trove
22 Oct 1903, 2 – The Newton Journal at Newspapers.com
26 Jul 1905, Page 1 – The Topeka Daily Capital at Newspapers.com
28 Sep 1910 – RECEDING GLACIERS. – Trove
“It appears that, save over a small area, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rockies has been melting at a rapid rate for several years. The glacier on Mount Sarmiento in South America. ; which descended into the sea during the last century, is now separated from the shore by a vigorous growth of timber The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland hat* retreated four miles since the year 1860, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a mile away from its old terminal moraine. In Scandinavia the s:now line is farther up the mountains, and the glaciers have withdrawn 3,000 feet from the lowlands in a century In the Eastern Alps and one or two other small districts the glaciers are growing.”
Sausalito News 30 November 1912 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
“The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, Missouri) • o1 Nov 1922, Wed • Page 1
Radical Change in Climatic Conditions In North Is Indicated by Disappearance of Glacier. and Formation of Moraines.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the waters too hot, according to a report to the commerce department today from Consul lift, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard of temperatures in the Arctic zone, exploration expeditions reporting that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north as 81 degrees, 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the Gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been re-placed by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have dis-appeared entirely. Very few seals, and no white fish are being found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which never before have ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.”
01 Nov 1922, 1 – The Kansas City Star at Newspapers.com
29 Dec 1923, Page 5 – at Newspapers.com
12 Nov 1924, Page 19 – The San Bernardino County Sun at Newspapers.com
12 Apr 1924, 7 – Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com
18 Feb 1925, Page 12 – Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com
That prediction failed, so they changed the date to 1961.
17 Sep 1936, Page 16 – Arizona Republic at Newspapers.com
13 Sep 1918, 25 – The Dayton Herald at Newspapers.com
That prediction failed, so they changed the date to 2002.
05 Mar 1952, Page 1 – The Post-Standard at Newspapers.com
15 Apr 1934, Page 33 – The Lincoln Star
13 May 1934, Page 65 – Oakland Tribune at Newspapers.com
The Aspen Daily Times January 16, 1936 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
19 Feb 1937, 11 – The Evening Sun at Newspapers.com
17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier
06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder – Trove
22 Nov 1943, 5 – Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com
31 May 1947 – ARCTIC PHENOMENON – Trove
18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING
Observations of the Alpine glaciers during a series of years have supplied proof that these great ice streams have long been in process of recession.
The information given on the map indicates that in the past fifty-three years the face of the glacier has retreated about eight miles. Not only is it shorter than it formerly was, but its mass has otherwise been reduced to a very considerable extent. The surface of the glacier now lies from 20 to 30 feet below its former level and the precipitous walls of rock that hem it in bear the record of this change of level. It is found also that the other glaciers in that neighbor; hood are in process of retreat, and the evidence collected by Dr. Engell shows that this process has been going on for a long series of years. This evidence would seem to show that for the past half century the summer heat has been greater than it was for at least a considerable period before that time
- Scientific American August 13, `1904
Scientific American – Google Books
“Prof. T. G. Bonney has some very interesting things to say in “Nature” on what he calls “the shrinkage of the world’s ice mantle.” There has been a general retreat, he says, of the European glaciers since 1861.”
21 Nov 1908 – THE WORLDS ICE MANTLE. – Trove
“The shores of the continent form two large open bays, which were terminated (July 12, 1794) by compact, solid mountains of ice rising perpendicularly from the water’s edge and bounded to the north by a continuation of the united, lofty, frozen mountains that extend eastward from mount Fairweather. In these bays also were great quantities of broken ice, which, having been put in motion by the springing up of a northerly wind, were drifted to the southward.”
The Fairweather ice-sheet extended then some 40 miles south of its present limit in the bay”
– April 1896
The National Geographic Archive | April 1896 | page 1
26 Nov 1903, 2 – The Marshfield News and Wisconsin Hub
13 Oct 1910, Page 7 – Aberdeen Herald
02 Nov 1922, Page 1 – Great Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com
History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park
National Geographic Magazine Archive
The Present Climatic Fluctuation on JSTOR
National Geographic used to know that glacial behavior was associated with solar activity.
National Geographic : 1967 Feb, Page 194
TimesMachine: February 14, 1904 – NYTimes.com
“The abandoned workings revealed by the receding glaciers are over 9000 feet above sea level. It will be some time before they are worked out, but they are being examined. The Hohen Tauern mines were mentioned by Polybius in 140 B.C. They had, however, been worked in prehistoric times. The 16th and 17th centuries saw their mining ceased until this year.”
20 Oct 1939 – LOST MINES REVEALED. – Trove
12 Apr 1948 – Says Austrian Glaciers Are Disappearing – Trove
“Catholic Press (Sydney, NSW : 1895 – 1942), Thursday 18 May 1911, page 4
GRAVE NEWS ABOUT GLACIERS.
Glaciers are part of the romance of mountains; the very name gives the thrill of the lonely and high and awful even to those who are not quite sure what a glacier may be. There is grave news about glaciers; they are disappearing, it would seem. Swiss peasants who are not yet quite all modernised enough to think toy railways in harmony with the eternal hills, declare that the tourists who go to see the glaciers are the cause of the ruin. Wherever the mountain cars run the glaciers flee. A Kandersteg correspondent of the “Morning Post” gives some dreary particulars. For many years past exact observations have been taken of the movements of glaciers in the Alps. The results of last year’s records have just been published, and show that all the glaciers in the Rhone district of Switzerland are in retreat, some of them to an extent which may almost be described as alarming. For example, the Arolla glacier has receded 85ft. in the past 12 months; the Aletsch, the longest in the Alps, 65 feet; the Gorner glacier, 58 feet; the Zinal, 51 feet; while the Turtmann glacier, in the Zermatt range, and the Zanfleuren or Sanetsch glacier have retreated nearly 46 feet each. Within the last ten years the Zigiornuovo glacier has shrunk by as much as 904 feet, the Zanfleuren by 718 feet, the Aletsch by 459 feet, the Zinal by 378 feet, and the Gorner by 190 feet. Others all showed more or less shrinkage. In the short space of four years, moreover, the small Mont Bonvin glacier, in the Wildstrubel range, Bernese Oberland, has entirely disappeared from sight. Another glacier, the Plaine Morte, in the same region of the Alps, has revented a little lake in the course of its receding. It is clear that if any Australian hasn’t seen a glacier yet, he had better take the next boat.”
18 May 1911 – GRAVE NEWS ABOUT GLACIERS. – Trove
“Alpine Glaciers Disappearing.
Hotel-keepers in the Alps have a new trouble and are complaining at the loss of patrons. The attractive glaciers are said to be actually passing from the landscape, and as they recede the hotels along their borders find their visitors becoming fewer. These glaciers are not running away, by any means, but they are deteriorating slowly, with a persistency that means their final annihilation. Hotels that a few years ago stood very near to a great river of slowly-moving ice now find themselves a considerable distance away. The famous glaciers of the Rhone have shrunk several thousand feet in the last 20 years ; considerably more than 100ft a year. A number of the well-known glaciers are also shrinking at about the same rate, and the fact is established that these reminders of the great glacial period are certainly disappearing.”
– October 14, 1902
14 Oct 1902 – Alpine Glaciers Disappearing. – Trove
“RECEDING GLACIERS.
Except over a small area, it is generally understood, the glaciers of the world are retreating to the mountains. 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. The Jacobshaven glacier in Greenland has retreated four miles since 1850, and the East glacier in Spitzbergen is more than a milk away from its original terminal moraine. In Scandinavia the snow-line is further up the mountains, and the glaciers have withdrawn 3,000ft. from the lowlands in a century. The Arapahoe glacier in the Rocky Mountains, with characteristic American enterprise, has been melting at a rapid rate for several years. 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.”
– May 26, 1922
26 May 1922 – RECEDING GLACIERS. – Trove
“Remarkable shrinkages have been going on among the Swiss glaciers, especially in the last two or three years. According to measurements, the great Rhone glacier, one of the sights of Switzerland—at least, it used to be— has lost in the last two years no less than 88,250 square feet, and others have been shortened by anywhere from 20ft. to 40ft. Among 63 instances 53 recessions were discovered, one glacier remained stationary, and nine had slightly increased.”
– December 13, 1907
13 Dec 1907 – SHRINKING GLACIERS. – Trove
“Is the Arctic climate becoming more temperate? Remarkable new information, given by the famous Swedish authority, Professor H. Wilson Ahlmann, in a lecture to the Swedish Geographical Society, suggests that this may be the case.
Professor Ahlmann was speaking on the collated results of his expedition last summer to north-east Greenland, where he has been making glaciological studies on Clavering Island, in connection with his earlier researches in the most northerly parts of the Atlantic. The address was given before a brilliant assembly of scientists, and was illustrated by an array of magnificent colour photographs.
Professor Ahlmann stated that the glaciers of northeast Greenland show clear signs of a change towards a warmer climate. As has been observed in other parts of the Arctic, especially in Spitzbergen, the melting has increased rapidly. All, or at any rate by far the largest number of local glaciers in northeast Greenland have receded very greatly during recent decades, and it would not be exaggerating to say that these glaciers are nearing a catastrophe.”
01 Feb 1940 – GREENLAND GLACIERS MELTING – Trove
05 Mar 1952, 7 – Johnson City Press at Newspapers.com
“Colorado Glaciers Recede 40 Feet in 22 Years
Boulder, Colo.—Colorado’s glaciers are vanishing slowly, according to Prof. Junius Henderson, curator of the museum of the University of Colorado. The great ice masses on the glacier peaks of the Rockies have been in slow retreat for the lust 20 years, Professor Henderson says. “However, the retreat hiss been very rapid since 1919,”
01 Jan 1925, Page 10 – The Indiana Weekly Messenger at Newspapers.com
“all recent observations seem to show that glaciers are gradually disappearing all over the world. We know that they are disappearing in the Arctic regions and on the equator”
30 Mar 1913, Page 3 – The Leavenworth Times at Newspapers.com
“hundreds of small glaciers have disappeared altogether from the Yosemite National park during the last half century. The first “living glacier” discovered by John Muir In 1871 in the Sierra Nevadas now has ceased to exist, it is reported.”
22 Sep 1932, Page 8 – Shiner Gazette at Newspapers.com
05 Dec 1903, Page 8 – Janesville Daily Gazette at Newspapers.com
The vast majority of glacial retreat in Glacier National Park occurred before 1940.
(99+) GLACIERS OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES | Richard Menicke and Carl Key – Academia.edu
Over the past 30 years, the glaciers appear to have grown
This is consistent with US temperature data from USHCN – before NOAA tampers with it.
Glacier National Park was predicted to be ice free by 1948.
29 Dec 1923, Page 5 – at Newspapers.com
12 Apr 1924, 7 – Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com
Glacier National Park ice free by 1961
17 Sep 1936, Page 16 – Arizona Republic at Newspapers.com
Glacier National Park ice free by 2002
05 Mar 1952, Page 1 – The Post-Standard at Newspapers.com
Glacier National Park ice free by 2020
No More Glaciers in Glacier National Park by 2020?
Glacier National Park ice free by 2044
Climate Change Threatens to Strip the Identity of Glacier National Park – The New York Times
The Biden administration has rewritten the history of Glacier National Park and erased the Medieval Warm Period. Last year this USGS page said that before the Little Ice Age, glaciers in Glacier National Park were very small or non-existent, and that they may not have survived the Holocene maximum.
2020 version.
History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park
But the Medieval Warm Period and Holocene Maximum have since been erased, and the text has been changed to match.
2021 version.
Brief History of Glaciers in Glacier National Park
&The Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park shrank by an average of four acres per year from 1900 to 1935.
It has hardly changed since 1935.
GLACIERS OF THE CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
Swiftcurrent
Grinnell
Recent Glacier Recession in Glacier National Park, Montana on JSTOR
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1958
SEVERAL thousand scientists of many nations have recently been climbing mountains, digging tunnels in glaciers, journeying to the Antarctic, camping on floating Arctic ice.
Glaciers in the western United States, for example, have lost 50 per cent of their ice in seventy years. The floating ice of the Arctic is one-third thinner and covers a considerably smaller area than it did sixty years ago.
TimesMachine: December 7, 1958 – NYTimes.com
The Aspen Daily Times January 16, 1936 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
13 Sep 1918, 25 – The Dayton Herald at Newspapers.com
26 Jul 1905, Page 1 – The Topeka Daily Capital at Newspapers.com
“Prof. T. G. Bonney has some very interesting things to say in “Nature” on what he calls “the shrinkage of the world’s ice mantle.” There has been a general retreat, he says, of the European glaciers since 1861.”
