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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 05:50 AM
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Disappearance of glacial river stuns B.C. hikers
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/09/02/bc-glacier-river-icefield.html?cmp=rss

One of the glacial rivers feeding a large lake straddling the Yukon-British Columbia border has dried up, hikers say, turning a normally fast-running watercourse into a muddy field strewn with icebergs.

"We were able to walk right into the river bed and stand among the 60-foot icebergs that are grounded now," said Diana Thayer of Atlin, B.C., who came across the phenomenon while hiking near the Llewellyn Glacier along the Sloko Inlet trail in late August.

Frigid meltwater from the glacier, part of the Juneau Icefield, normally flows into Atlin Lake at Sloko Inlet and Llewellyn Inlet. Now the Sloko source has run dry.

Thayer said Atlin Lake, which is British Columbia's largest natural lake and extends its northern tip into Yukon, has already "dropped about 50 feet and perhaps is still draining."
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 05:52 AM
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 06:13 AM
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DCBob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 06:25 AM
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3. The effects are becoming more and more pronounced.
World leaders will continue to ignore it.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 07:34 AM
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4. The evidence is right there in front of their nose...
Edited on Sat Sep-03-11 07:35 AM by AsahinaKimi
and this idiot has the nerve to say:

How predictable that the Global Warming enviro-NUTJOBS have posted their usual idiotic leftist comments.


They are really just totally freaking ignorant and pathetic.
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FLPanhandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-11 07:38 AM
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5. Ice dam
Hopefully it'll unclog itself.
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