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Is the Earth Getting Cooler

-Waldemar Kaempffert
The New York Times

Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest mountain ranges are advancing substantially for the first time in about 100 years, finds Richard Hubley, project leader of an expedition sent to the Olympic and Cascade Mountains. Hubley, a graduate student in Meteorology at the University of Washington, conducted the project with Ed La Chapelle, snow physicist for the United States Forest Service in Alta, Utah, and Michael W. Hane, a university physics student.

The team spent last July and August studying Blue Glacier on Mount Olympus in the Olympic National Park and surveyed from the air 48 glaciers in the Cascade Mountains in mid-September. In both areas a substantial forward motion of glaciers, ranging from 10 feet to 350 feet annually, was detected. It is possible that this movement is a forerunner of major glacial activity in temperate regions in other parts of the world. Similar advances have occurred at intervals during the past several hundred years. The last was in the 19th century. Since that time glaciers have been retreating.

Glacier masses are not extensive enough to affect the weather, but the weather affects glacial activity. The cooler, wetter weather that has been recorded in the Pacific Northwest during the past 12 years apparently caused the glaciers to increase in thickness and weight and therefore to start moving forward. The purpose of the project was to measure activity of the glacier as related to weather conditions.

Blue Blacier is 3-1/4 miles long and covers an area of 2-3/4 miles on the slopes of Mount Olympus from the 7,800 foot level to 3,900 feet. Its flat, broad snow fields at higher reaches terminate in a long valley tongue. Hubley and his associates found that the terminus had advanced 10 feet in the past year and that ice in the middle portions of the glacier moved as rapidly as 1 foot a day.

In the second phase of the research aerial photos were taken of 48 glaciers in the Cascade mountains which had not been phtographed aerially since 1950. Comparative photographs showed that 33 of the 48 glaciers had advanced.

The survey made by Hubley and his associates is important because it is generally conceded that the earth has been warming up in the last half century or so. Fish are now caught in Greenland's waters that were never seen there before. Another piece of evidence that points to a change of climate is the progressive melting of glaciers. But if the recent findings hold good for the glaciers throughout the world, the earth may be getting cooler.

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Hmmm?

Warmer or colder? The New York Times suggesting the world may be getting colder?!! How can this be? Better yet...when can this be?

The answer is the article originally ran in 1956 - when smog and pollution were vastly worse than they are today.

Indeed, the 1960's would bring a decade of fierce cold winters throughout the world - at the same time pollution was at an all time high and smog was as thick as fog in most major cities.

Clearly - the solution to global warming is obvious: We need to take catalytic convertors off of cars, bring back leaded gasoline and burn leaves in the incinerators like it's 1956! Once we get the temperatures back down we can start cleaning up again and do this in a perpetual cycle.

The smog, reflected sunlight back into the atmosphere, kept temperatures significantly lower and cooled the earth. Global warming must be due to man-made pollution control devices.

;-)

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