Another glacier story
This time from Washington State.
What's missing from all this information? That's right. The data curves.
There's a lot of glacier data out there, but it's hard to find going back more than a few decades. Here's a bit of data from one Cascades glacier. Map those numbers in that little table on a graph. What do you get?
Something to watch for: Any steady-state curve of a statistic over time that ends on the left side only a few years ago is suspect. Most glacier mass-balance monitoring only goes back to about 1950.