Yes, but in this case, related to localized adiabatic and orographic processes rather than regional or global climate variability. It's important to not conflate the very real possibility of changes associated with AGW with those induced by natural physical processes that have always existed. For instance, in this case, Chinook winds and frictionally-induced albedo changes.
Gosh, thanks for raining on my parade. I just thought it was a cool investigative story.
I was just joshin'. I do like how scientists find a phenomenon (big circle in the ice, now frozen over again) and go about theorizing how to explain it (meteorite? Nope. Blue ice catches more sunlight, melting snow, water drains into a pool atop the ice shelf, until a drain is melted in the ice shelf, then the water drains away. Presto: big ice circle where the lake used to be. That to me is cool.)
Me too. It reminded me of when I was a 14yr old kid on vacation in Alaska. My family and I were camping near a glacier (I think it was Mendenhall?), and my brother and I hiked up to the glacier itself. Ignoring all the warning signs, we hiked up onto the shelf (wearing our sneakers), where you could look down into deep ice crevasses and see roaring rivers of water flowing under the shelf and eventually draining into the distantly downstream lake. We were really stupid back then.
It's a shame that the issue has become so politicized that good scientists and good people have to make such choices.
It definitely shouldn't be politicized and good scientists really have no choices to make.
They shouldn't have any to make, you're right. But if we are saying she's not a good scientist and that's why she had to make a choice then maybe you are just making my point for me.
I'm the opposite. I'm tired of turning on the fans and a/c in January. I want more than one-two weeks of actual cold weather a year.
one thing i have always liked about living in the southeast is that we generally get a decent taste of all four seasons.
If we keep giving glaciers handouts, they'll never learn to pick themselves up by their bootstraps. I prefer glaciers that don't melt.
