Provide a rebuttal to Mike's viewpoint on glacier retreat and offer an alternative perspective on climate change.
Hey Mike, You, like AK Snowman above, are in the dark. Sure glaciers are generally in retreat around the planet but the retreat began around 1800 at the end of the Little Ice Age. Go to the Glacier Bay National Park Website and open the official GBNP brochure. On it, is a map of GB demarcating the retreat of the Grand Pacific (GP) Glacier since 1794 when Geoge Vancouver first "discovered" Glacier Bay (at that time a 5 mile indentation in the shoreline). In 1794 the Bay was walled off by the enormous 4000' thick and 20 mile wide GP Glacier! From 1794 to 1912 the GP Glacier retreated over 80 Miles! Since 1912 the teeny tiny remanent Grand Pacific Glacier (now 210' thick and 2 miles wide) has retreated and advanced a mear 5 - 8 Miles!  If you look at the map, you will understand that Climate Changes always, there is no denying that. Hopefully this will give you a perspective that you don't get my listening to hypocritAl Gore, who has made a ton of money and creates more CO2 than you or I