Alaska Glaciers Then and Now: 23 Historic Photo Pairs, Glacier Bay to Kenai

Or maybe it's just that the old pictures are taken in broad winter while the others were taken during spring or summer

Glaciers aren't a result of one season's snowfall.

What are you all talking about, are you kidding? This is a direct result of climate change, whether man made or not, are you blind, or just dense?

More room for fishing!

I am waiting for the world to tilt on it axis so we can see where the new ones will form! It's just life happening...geezzz people. It will continue after your dead to the same as it happened before you came.

Btw, I was born and raised 37yrs in S.E. AK.

Apparently Gaia is replacing all the rainforest losses with her own vegetation. Despite all the global warming caused by the sun, she is replenishing herself quite well thank you.

I'd like to see before and after pictures of Portage Glacier on Turnagain Arm.

Thank you Andreas! .The results of the rising sea levels are already being seen in Miami, especially South Beach.

The hoax is that man caused it and that man can stop it. Some people are just easily fooled as is evidenced by the above.

Is it just me or water look higher in the older pics. And for the geology type, uplift, is that the land springing back after the weight is gone.

The first country who doesnt care about climate change is usa, but im happy that florida, new york and california will be the first places under water.

These pictures are compelling. Clearly, the glaciers in North America are shrinking and have been for some time. Likewise, much of the USA used to have glaciers that have melted. It's reall no debate: there is climate change. The debate is whether it is human caused. My perspective is the climate of Earth is not static. It shows signs of change over it's history prior to the use of fossil fuels and factories. We need to be responsible but not think more highly of ourselves than we ought. We really aren't sovereign over our planet.

listen, the govt knows ,and they will tell you,,,that if you walk too heavy and too many people on edge of an island it will tip and dump you into the water.

As soon as you talk to a religious person about climate change, the conversation becomes insane. Dogma blinds people to the reality before their very eyes.

The entire US was covered in ice at one point. Thats why we now have the great lakes. This stuff has been melting for eons and will continue to do so until we get slapped upside the head with another comet or yellowstone blows creating another iceage. It's not rocket science for crying out loud.

I was shocked to see how..much the New Zealand glaciers
Had receded. Do you have any old pics of Frans Joseph and the othet one on the south island. Thanks for this great article

climate change happens ,the earth is constantly morphing.and yes this type of rapid change over the centuries has probably happened before.but people were not around to see it so we do not know for sure.saying that people do effect climate with all our pollution. can we reverse it ? no. the only real way for people to reverse it is for the human population to die off.sounds stupid does it not,but is a fact the earth is overpopulated.another thing is have you ever melted an icecube?it first starts melting slowly but the more mass it losses the faster it appears to melt.the same with the glaciers they reach a tipping point and appear to melt faster .I highly doubt that man in all his brilliance can reverse that.a 1000 years from now who can say it might go back the other way.

Pictures and perspectives aside: We need to take better care of our planet, period.

As the late George Carlin said..........."The planet will be fine, Saying we need to save the planet is ridiculous. We just arent going to be here."

We should all be dead from the Bird Flu Pandemic by now.

The real debate shouldn't be whether humans are causing global climate change. It should be how our quality of life is going to change once the local glaciers are totally melted. Where does your water come from? Add in pollution from any number of industrial sectors and the current population levels and die off numbers have the potential to destabilize the economy more than the bankers.

100 years from now when your grandchildren stop hearing about "climate change" because it has become "land change", and our country begins to experience underwater coastlines, you would believe it. If you weren't already dead. If it can't hurt the future to take a chance on saving it, why wouldn't you try, whether you believe or not?

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Climate science or no climate science, we desperately need to clean up the planet and stop burning fossil fuels which are causing massive pollution and huge health problems throughout the world. Apart from anything else, these are non-renewable resources that once burnt are gone forever. And soon we will have wars between nations fighting to get these resources from the Arctic and Antarctic. Just so we can keep on polluting?How crazy is that? We need to get our act together to stop massive consumption and make a concerted effort to clean up the earth's air and oceans, regardless of whether climate change is caused by humans or not.

Just think, in another hundred years it could look just like it did 100 years ago. AGAIN! AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. WE can't do anything about any of it, nor have WE caused any of it. How on earth did these same things happen time and time again before humans even walked the planet!

Reading some of the comments here made me realize 2 things:

1) We are doomed

2) It's a good thing

Alot of the pictures look like you are comparing a summer picture to the same area in winter time in the next picture. Very deceiving to say the least. Also black and white photos compared to a color photo will look vastly different even if taken of the same subject at the same time. These prove nothing.

Take a gander at Revelation 16:8-9. It's going to get MUCH hotter, and soon, guys...
Every living thing in the sea dies too...(Rev. 16:3) It's already starting.
Numbers are down on a massive scale worldwide. Habitat is dying.
We are rapidly approaching the terminus of this age.
There's only one answer and only one way out...or UP, as the case may be...

Holy cow Bat man...who has time for all of this? Not I replies the Batman! So,on with life I go!

If you look at the maps of Glacier Bay, you will see the vast majority of the retreat was from about 1780 (when Capt Cooke) to the early 1900's, hundreds of KM, in recent times, the retreat is much slower and some glaciers are actually increasing in size. I was there less than a year ago, ask the park rangers for a map, and ask them if some glaciers are growing...

Yet the Hubbard Glacier continues to grow at astronomical rates. And the Bering Glacier. And the Juneau Ice Field. And McGinnis and Taku.... Yep, according to the National Parks Service, there are 616 "officially named" glaciers in Alaska - and the Alaskan Almanac estimates that the state probably has has 100,000 glaciers. So, if you only list the glaciers that are retreating, are you really reporting the facts? More important, isn't retreating and expanding what glaciers are suppose to do?

killing myself right now. no really im going to to do it? nobody cares? I thought we were talking about things nobody cared about or could change? ohh

Not a denialist, but this really does have a touch of alarmism. Especially when several of the photos admit that the glaciers were already retreating even in the early 1900s. Haven't you people ever heard of the Ice Age? The Earth's been warming for over 10,000 years now. I sincerely hope your concern over man-made climate change isn't resting on "Oh noes, Alaskan glaciers have all gonez away!!"

Perhaps I'm talking through my hat ... I'm aware of climate chanes around the world. And the poles retreating or melting glaciers. I wonder if this had any effect. If I'm not mistaken a few or several years ago there was a tetonic shift of the Earth's crust causing the poles to shift or causing the Earth's axis to change a bit. How much? I do not recall. I wonder though if it be enough to contribute to the melting off of the glaciers? If it shift, it might be exposing more of the glaciers to warmer areas a little bit, no?

If you believe that global warming is such a threat I suggest that you shut off you computer, sell your car, call the power company and have your lights disconnected. Take the money from the car go buy a tent and move down to the river.

No matter what we label it most of us fail to admit that each of us contribute to the destruction of this planet. So many simple changes will make a huge difference, drive less, own smaller cars or none at all, eat less, live in smaller houses, use less paper, buy less stuff. The list goes on but moist folks just won't admit they are a big part of the problem.

Am I the only one who thought the after pictures looked better? Looked like a life supporting environment? A healthy ecosupportive system. An improvement for sure. I guess you see what you want to see.

Imagine what it looks like now in 2015 as these comparisons were made back in 2005. Anyone want to argue that climate change does not exist ?

Of course they will continue to deny Climate change, after all, they're morons. They suffer from Cognitive Dissonance Disorder. They refuse to believe Science facts, Even if proven by hundreds of renowned Scientists.

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such a nice blogs.

thanks

Everything has changed because of the global warming created by the whole world. This condition is very alarming.

I am very sad to see the state of global warming that is being carried out by humans in this world uncontrollably.

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