morrison wrote:I guess the Glaciers of the sea to sky fall outside "the small world " you live in ?
Frankly yeah, they do. I don't hike them or climb them. The only one I ever ski is covered in snow during the winter either way. I don't rely on them for water in any way.
This part of the world has been warming for a few thousand years and the glaciers are like ice left out on the table, they don't melt instantly as the ambient temperature rises. They have been receding since before we were here.
I don't know what kind of trend the air temperature at glacier altitudes is over the years but if you look at the mean temperature of Vancouver at YVR from 1937-2013 there is no clear trend line.
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People (and especially the media) are quick to jump on the highs of our temperature spikes and claim it as global warming when really it's just variability and frankly that doesn't do anyone any good.
The earth is warming.
But metro Vancouver has yet to really see the effects of it and we probably wont until 2040 or so.