http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/06/26/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups/#comment-8243 Venise Alstergren Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-8243 To the people getting stirred up about the Franz Joseph glacier in New Zealand. I haven't seen this glacier. However, I think caution should be used here. Apparently glaciers aren't noted for advancing. i.e. the world has been heating up for centuries and glaciers are receding. I've only seen one advancing glacier and it's in southern Argentina. It's called the Moreno and the reason for it advancing has to do with The Andean Cordillera and moisture soaked clouds turning to snow which is then dumped onto the glacier. There are some amazing glaciers in southern Chile and scientists have marked their regression. <br />Surely the nub of the problem is the speed at which they are doing it. Thirty years ago there was a sort of pronounced drop, like the shoulders of a mountain, today the line is much straighter and steeper, here I'm talking the San Rafael glacier in Chile. Surely this is what the writers are talking about? If not, it ought to be. To the people getting stirred up about the Franz Joseph glacier in New Zealand. I haven’t seen this glacier. However, I think caution should be used here. Apparently glaciers aren’t noted for advancing. i.e. the world has been heating up for centuries and glaciers are receding. I’ve only seen one advancing glacier and it’s in southern Argentina. It’s called the Moreno and the reason for it advancing has to do with The Andean Cordillera and moisture soaked clouds turning to snow which is then dumped onto the glacier. There are some amazing glaciers in southern Chile and scientists have marked their regression.
Surely the nub of the problem is the speed at which they are doing it. Thirty years ago there was a sort of pronounced drop, like the shoulders of a mountain, today the line is much straighter and steeper, here I’m talking the San Rafael glacier in Chile. Surely this is what the writers are talking about? If not, it ought to be.

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