These are lakes fed by glaciers at the southern tip of the South American landmass, in Patagonia. The bright blue light reflects nicely off the pure waters of Lago San Martin. Other parts of the terrain are covered in snowpack. We’re a little too close for good resolution, unfortunately. Glaciers once covered this entire area before yielding the valley to meltwater. The glaciers are melting.
Bringing along a portable icemaker won’t help you.
If you’ve been convinced by the gazillions of dollars that the oil industry has paid to portray global warming in the media as a "debate", then you should pay serious attention. Among scientists, the debate ended a long time ago.
In the Patagonia region of Argentina, Los Glaciares National Park is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. The glaciers are getting smaller, though. And not in geological time. "As fast as a glacier" is an oxymoron but if you want to see these glaciers you’d better make your travel plans before your Expedia session times out again.
What is interesting about these photos is not where the glaciers are, but where they were. It’s easy to spot the huge swath of dry ground formerly covered in a frozen river of ice a hundred miles long.
Lago San Martin from ground level:
Read news articles from 1974-1975 and you will see that scientists saw a new “ICE age” brewing. I sometimes wonder that maybe things are cyclical and things happen due to cicumstances other than human means. We do need to get a grip on the pollution problem. In some cities around the world they have oxygen stations on the street corners (Mexico City is one).
I think it’s obvious to the world scientific community that this climate change has been going on for somewhat longer than the two years you mention, thirty years ago.
Glaciers are melting all over the globe. The two poles are melting. Greenland is melting. The snow line is rising everywhere. 98% of the world’s climatologists and scientists are issuing grave warnings re the fallout from global warming. And yet Abetterworld prefers to believe that no change is occuring and that we do not have to change anything. Its all natural, man. Wake up and smell the ozone…
Thanks for a great site, SPROL
Cheers and look out for the oncoming train, Abetterworld. If you don’t get off the track you may be run down…
Every time I read about world disasters, especially reports about how fast the the north and south poles are melting it affirms my belief that the earths orbit around the sun is decreasing.
We are getting nearer and nearer to the sun each year which is causing heat records to be broken every year in some countries !
Surely some can can measure these fact annually.
Derek – the sun has flares. Even official government climatology services monitor them. But they are in flux: sometimes, more; sometimes less. They do affect hurricanes and other storms. But it really is not helpful to generalize as you are doing. It is a very complex scenario including earth core heating up. But keep coming back to Sprol.com. Eventually the picture will sort itself out for you. There is global warming, the Earth is entering the photon belt of the Milky Way after 26,000 out of it, the planets are incredibly closely linked in orbits .. it’s a BIG picture.
This is by far one of my favorite post you have done, i disagree on some points but most of the points you made i can respect.