Fifty-Year Record of Glacier Change Reveals Shifting Climate in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3046/pdf/fs20093046.pdf

Documents the loss of mass of three glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska over a 50 year period and the acceleration of loss over the last 15 years. Speculates that climate change is overwhelming the previously observed responses of the glaciers to periodic shifts in ocean conditions. From the U.S. Geological Survey.

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