Johnny Rook's Climaticide Chronicles

I was poking around the National Snow and Ice Data Center web site and found these amazing photos. Next time someone tells you Climaticide is a hoax just show them these photos and remind them that about a billion of the earth’s people depend for their water supply on glacial run off. If we don’t take prompt, effective action nearly all non-polar glaciers will be gone by the end of the century.

Muir Glacier

Photo on the left taken on August 13, 1941. Photo on the right taken on August 31, 2004.

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Image Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center, W. O. Field, B. F. Molnia

Qori Kalis Glacier

Photo on the left taken in July 1978. Photo on the right taken on July 2004.

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Image Credit: Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, the Ohio State University/courtesy NSIDC.