Oops. Argentine Glacier Grows Despite Global Warming

Written by Thomas Richard, CCF Editor | 12 June 2009

Perito Moreno glacier

The AP reports, in its usual dour way, that...

Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.

Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.

"We're not sure why this happens," said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. "But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change."

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# Guest 2009-06-13 13:49

"not all glaciers respond equally to climate change"

That there are some actually growing would imply that any warming is regional or local, not global.

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