Formerly Known as Glacier Park

LiveScience.com

These two sets of pictures are from the Live Science.com website and they show two locations in Glacier National Park in Montana.

The Montana park has 26 named glaciers today, down from 150 in 1850. Those that remain are typically mere remnants of their former frozen selves, a new gallery of before and after images reveals.

The top picture was taken sometime in the past century. The bottom ones from recently. It is being called the Repeat Photography Project. The glaciers in Montana, like those in Greenland and other places, are disappearing.

Based on the pictures and global recession rates, scientists predict that the park will be glacier free by 2030.

This goes along with several other related stories:

• Snows Melting Earlier in the East
• Polar Meltdown Near
• Glacial Earthquakes Rock Greenland

Climate change IS real. The political squabbles over cause, effect, and possible solutions need to stop if we are to take some real and significant actions. Life as we have known it is changing. We need to be prepared.