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November 27, 2015
A Voice for Glaciers at COP21
During the last six years From a Glaciers Perspective has published 520 Posts examining the response of glaciers to climate change. No hyperbole has been needed to use words such as disappear, fragmented, disintegrated, and collapse. Glacier by glacier from the fragmentation of glaciers to the formation of new lakes and new islands has emphasized the changing map of our world as glaciers retreat. The story details change, but the story …
July 19, 2014
Alpine Glaciers-BAMS State of the Climate 2013
The post below is the chapter from the BAMS State of the climate 2013, that I author each year. Full report which is the most comprehensive assessment of climate in 2013. Alpine Glaciers – Mauri S. Pelto The World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) record of mass balance and terminus behavior (WGMS, 2013) provides a global index for alpine glacier behavior. Mass balance was -638 mm in 2012, negative for the 22nd consecutive …
Dean of Academic Affairs at Nichols College and Professor of Environmental Science at Nichols College in Massachusetts since 1989. Glaciologist directing the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project since 1984. This project monitors the mass balance and behavior of more glaciers than any other in North America.