2009Jan19: 2007 loss of ice was the third worst on record.
2009Jan19: 2007′s loss of glacial ice was the third worst on record, according to a World Glacier Monitoring Service report. “If you have a realistic, mid-warming scenario, then there’s no hope for the small glaciers – in the Pyrenees, in Africa, in the Andes or Rocky mountains. The large glaciers in Alaska and the Himalayas will take longer, but even those very large glaciers will change completely; they will be much, much smaller, and many of them will disintegrate, forming lakes in many cases,” says Professor Wilfried Haeberli, the director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service (UK Guardian).
Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/19/glacier-rising-sea-levels
Image Description: Grottes Russell, au dessus du glacier d’Ossoue (massif du Vignemale). Photo by Thibautsl, 2007May30. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grottes_Russell.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 license.
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