Glacier National Park to replace signs
saying glaciers would be gone by 2020
Washington Times,
by
Jessica Chasmar
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/8/2020 11:14:20 AM
Montana’s Glacier National Park is updating its signs to no longer predict its signature glaciers would be melted by 2020. Park spokeswoman Gina Kurzmen said the signs that were added more than a decade ago to reflect climate change forecasts at the time will be replaced to more accurately reflect the glaciers’ fate, CNN reported Wednesday. The new signs will reportedly read, “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.” The US Geological Survey informed the park in 2017 that the glaciers were no longer expected to melt
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/8/2020 11:18:47 AM (No. 282245)
News flash, we are not in an active ice age, glaciers retreat. If they don't we're in big trouble.
Signs gone glaciers still here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/8/2020 11:22:16 AM (No. 282252)
This is a wonderful park, shared with Canada. Glorious scenery. They should give up the signs and just let the visitors enjoy the natural beauty… They don’t know what is coming.
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I don’t see how the new signs (“When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act.“) are much better (less stupid) than the old ones. The “we” had better include almost all of coal burning Asia if these geniuses think we can control the climate.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Alecto2 1/8/2020 11:46:45 AM (No. 282271)
Agreed #5. The sheer arrogance of these morons. Time to roll out George Carlin and "Saving the Planet".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Alecto2 1/8/2020 11:47:41 AM (No. 282272)
Oops #4, not enough coffee yet!
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FTA:
The U.S. Geological Survey informed the park in 2017 that the glaciers were no longer expected to melt so quickly due to changes in the forecast model, Ms. Kurzmen told CNN.
But, how can this be?
I thought it was settled "science" after all.
Actually, this is a good thing, as it indicates things do change, and hopefully due to the enormous amount of false data that was being used previously, is creating real, and more accurate forecasting.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
valinva 1/8/2020 12:06:22 PM (No. 282284)
They should change the signs to say: We have no clue as to when or if these glaciers will disappear. We will no longer be making any predictions as the Climate forecast models have proven to be extremely unreliable and there is no evidence their reliability will increase with the revised models.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kewmac 1/8/2020 12:09:39 PM (No. 282287)
Let me see if I have this straight. The national park service has been using my tax dollars to propagandize for the global warming fraud. The purpose of the fraud is to grow government ever larger and more powerful at the expense of the citizens. I hate to say this, but it is time for some wholesale changes in the management corps at the national park service.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/8/2020 12:19:24 PM (No. 282296)
So, they replaced a stupid sign with a we think you're stupid sign.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/8/2020 12:25:08 PM (No. 282303)
When I visited Glacier National Park in the early 80s, the NPS emphasized that that GNP was so named because it was formed by glaciers, not because of the few, small remaining glaciers in the park.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2020 12:26:25 PM (No. 282306)
Whoops.....caught in ANOTHER climate change lie.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
john56 1/8/2020 12:32:49 PM (No. 282316)
Well, it could happen later in 2020.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 1/8/2020 12:50:24 PM (No. 282351)
I have seen similar signs, not about glaciers but about climate change "damage" PREDICTED to happen, in other parks. It is beyond annoying. It is a LIE being told to every visitor.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
HotRod 1/8/2020 1:10:54 PM (No. 282371)
National parks should not be pushing a political narrative. They are for all citizens to enjoy. How much money do the new signs cost the taxpayers?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/8/2020 1:11:41 PM (No. 282372)
Thank God. And the president next.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/8/2020 1:14:06 PM (No. 282376)
Still total B.S. More likely they'll grow in the coming decades.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 1/8/2020 1:14:58 PM (No. 282378)
All we hope for is Gina's job disappears before the glaciers do.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/8/2020 1:57:01 PM (No. 282400)
Agree with #2. If the glaciers start growing we are going to be in deep s...trouble.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
judy 1/8/2020 2:00:23 PM (No. 282406)
Can we get a refund from Gore?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/8/2020 2:05:56 PM (No. 282412)
Rename it to Sunny Slopes, or how about Green Acres.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 1/8/2020 2:59:56 PM (No. 282463)
As a marketing tool the signs did get more people to visit the park before its too late. Visitors numbers went from 2 million in 2008 to about 3 million per year now. Will they drop back down now?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/8/2020 3:59:45 PM (No. 282525)
Time to relocate the National Parks Service and whatever bureaucratic nightmare they may be attached to to Butte, Montana. Tell them lunch at the Diamond Grille is to freeze for.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 1/8/2020 4:27:05 PM (No. 282563)
"One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.”
Really? Glaciers can shrink? Who'd have thunk?
Did you know that as recently as 12,000 years ago, the land upon which NYC and Chicago sit today was covered by a massive ice sheet? Imagine all the SUVs and farting cows that must have existed back then to melt all that ice! The truth is that ever since God created the Heavens and the Earth the planet has gone through continual cycles of heating and cooling. Man has existed for just a fraction of the time that Earth has been in existence, which exposes the scam of man-made global warming. Scoldilocks Greta gave the game away when she linked her climate change crusade to socialist economics. It comes as no surprise that activists who've entrenched themselves in government positions are spouting the party line. Notice that the park rangers didn't admit they were wrong, they simply moved the goal posts. Doom may not have hit us yet, they say, but we're still doomed nonetheless. Yes, that next ice sheet should be upon us North Americans in about 25,000 years from now.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2020 4:37:44 PM (No. 282573)
Pretty stupid political nonsense to put up foolish signs like that.
The long term climate situation we are in is called an "interglacial period", since the history of Earth for the last million years or so has been long periods of Snowball Earth with huge glaciers covering everything north of about 40 degrees latitude, maybe 200,000 years long, with short interglacial periods where things warm up nicely.
I am really hoping that we are not headed back to one of those Ice Ages for 200,000 years. THAT would be some pretty serious, deadly climate change. And nothing we do will affect it.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Penney 1/8/2020 5:48:16 PM (No. 282663)
So, the U.N. can take their silly demands and just leave now? YEA!
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Exquisite comedy. There was no room in the budget to update the signs, probably because the US government wastes so much tax money on climate change, "green" fuels (thanks to Dubya), refugees, illegal aliens, and other unaffordable luxuries.