Is the Ice Caps and Glaciers melting normal?

Question

I was watching Discovery. It was a program by scientists that study and measure the rate of glacier loss in northern Canada. They said none of the glaciers were there 5000-10000 years ago because they melt down, then build back up over and over. They showed where Glaciers were melting and where they had made canyons before in the Rockies. They said it was natural.

Answer 1

No way. Prior to 1999 and GWB, the average Earth's temperature was a constant 58 degrees F and it remained that way for that last 750,000 years. Temperature, glacier mass, solar output, albedo, water vapor, dinosaur faerts, orbit perturbation, and sea level for the entire planet remained static. Continents did not move and volcanoes were never geologically challenged like Mount Saint Hellens. It turns out that the folks from NE Siberia had to fly on Alaska Airlines from Magadan, RF to Anchorage, AK on a MD-80 to populate North America and make Clovis points because a land bridge did not exist. At that time, they enjoyed complementary mammoth cheese burgers, pommes frites, Humboldt fog cheese & crackers, goose blubber, steamed mussels, pemmican, ginger ale, and Watney's Red Barrel as part of their in flight meal. The caveman from Geico actually flew the plane. It was not until the year 2000 that Donald Rumsfeld infiltrated the secret warehouse, owned by George Lucas and located in San Rafael, CA, and stole the technical readouts to an Imperial Star Destroyer! At that time the Bush administration finally seized plans to a vehicle that could mount the 250 megawatt GWB weather machine. The fully armed Star Destroyer was built by Textron, Lockheed, and General Dynamics, with a few bits obtained by Orchard Supply and Hardware and McMaster-Carr Supply, Co. and launched from LLNL's site 300 in September of 2001. The rest is history..............ts

Answer 2

The ice cap and glaciers in the Northern hemisphere have advanced and retreated on a regular cycle for millions of years. They are thin, compared to the South Pole, and sit on water. When they advance, they find themselves on land, and can advance thousands of miles.

At the South Pole you have exactly the opposite situation. Those have never melted since the continents formed, prior to the dinosaurs. They are miles thick and sit on land. When they advance they find themselves over open water and pieces begin to break off and float away.

All the ice at both poles is rapidly melting. There has been no comparable event in the history of the planet. The largest icebergs ever seen in the past were 1-2 miles across. Pieces the size of Delaware and Connecticut have been seen this year and last.

Answer 3

there is no expected date, besides the undeniable fact that, the melting of glaciers will sign the finished end of this modern-day ice age. that is inevitable. It has exceeded off in the previous and it will ensue back. The climate in this interglacial era would be warmer and extra humid than it presently is.

Answer 4

I think it's logical to expect glaciers to retreat and advance over time. Expecting anything in Nature to stay static is a sure way to be continually surprised and / or disappointed.

I can assure anyone who is under thirty, if you don't get run over by a bus, you will live to see your children or grandchildren warning of an impending ice age if you don't stop doing the same things YOU think will cause global warming.

Answer 5

Growth and declines in glaciers are normal. But the rate of current decline is not natural and is not correlated with increased energy output from the sun. The increase in temperatures is, however, highly correlated with increases in CO2 in the atmosphere. Ice cores taken from Antarctica indicate that CO2 concentrations at present are unprecedented.

Answer 6

Yes, it is natural and has been happening for millions of years. In time the glaciers will come back and people will pray for global warming.

Answer 7

It depends on who you choose to believe, lately they have been saying that we are causing them to melt faster but other scientists have said no it's not true.

We had an ice age and the climate changed to what we now know it as, and we had nothing to do with that, the world is changing again to what we don't know but it's natural in my opinion.

Answer 8

I believe they are melting faster because of global warming. But I'm pretty sure that they will build back up.

Answer 9

because of the global warming it is melting faster than it must be we must come forward to take comtroll over global warming

Answer 10

Yes this is normal.