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u/Imaginary-Yam-7792 3h ago
Muir Glacier's 2,600-foot ice loss in Alaska from 1941 to 2004
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u/thoughtlow 3h ago
oh oof
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u/Imaginary-Yam-7792 3h ago
I just googled "august 31 2004 lake"
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u/dootdootlord 3h ago
the brain of a r/peterexplainsthejoke member cannot comprehend the idea of search engines
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u/Kootsiak 2h ago
It's because they want to talk to actual people and potentially kick off a discussion, instead of flatly asking A.I to do it for them.
Why are you on Reddit if you don't care about human interaction? You can just have your memes curated by meme pages on Instagram or A.I. There is no reason to be here other than the interaction with other people, even if it's just to read comments.
Also, no one is asking you personally to have to respond to these posts, you can just easily ignore the ones you think are pointless. I don't know what compels you people to feel the need to moderate and control what happens in this subreddit like these posts are nagging you (which is just a mental illness and not anything put upon by society or this webpage).
Just ignore it and move on.
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u/Season_of_Treason 2h ago
It’s basic knowledge to look something up first before posting. That said, in cases like this, I agree with you.
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u/Longjumping-Lab-7345 17m ago
Bro they do not want to kick off an actual discussion are you crazy? Nobody is in this sub to talk to each other
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u/asdsav 2h ago
They are not against posting or discussion, they are against low effort
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u/Kootsiak 1h ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but sometimes low effort is all people have left to reach out with. They don't know what else to talk about or how to initiate conversations with people online.
It's also possible they've had trouble knowing how to google search things properly. I was all on board with search engines from their start, so I went out of my way to just sit and learn what words would get results I wanted from them in the late 90's and have only gotten better at it since. I thought this was something everyone who uses the internet knew how to do, but it's not and a lot of people struggle even knowing how to put what they are seeing and thinking into words. Especially words that a computer might recognize.
There's also the component of English being a second or third language for them and they might need help understanding even the basics of the text of the image, let alone what global warming is and all the context of the image.
I personally don't mind helping people who are completely lost on even the basics, because they often need the most help. Sometimes it's a waste of my time, but other times it's rewarding to know I could stop and give my full attention to them. So again, those people that get bothered by this should just move on and find a question that interests them, because this is clearly not for them.
They are acting like the question is being asked to them personally and it offends them that they had to waste time reading it, when they don't need to read shit at all. None of this is being asked of them, it's all just for fun. Answering people's questions who are lost is sometimes fun for me, so just let weirdo's like me answer the fucking questions.
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u/CrazyBzDen 2h ago
What engines?
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u/Gargleblaster25 2h ago
Google "search engine". I mean, Google is a search engine too, but just Google "search engine." The search engine part, I mean, not that Google is a search engine... Which it is. Google is a search engine, but you can Google Google on Google.
Damn it! I going to the Clam.
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u/faceassed 3h ago
River go brrtt?
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u/amatsumegasushi 3h ago
Glacier go melt. 🌡️
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u/CATNIP_IS_CRACK 2h ago edited 1h ago
Current ecosystem go bye-bye with prolonged mass extinction event before reset, and life goes on like nothing happen. Human survival or prevention optional.
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u/bearfootmedic 3h ago
The glacier is still there, but it's just a fragment of it's former self - now just an icewall alongside that lake.
When I visited Alaska jn 2019, we took a boat tour to see it. It was actively calving so who knows how much is left.
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u/J_Stubby 2h ago edited 2h ago
Hello deplorable spawn point, Stewie here. This is an image of Muir Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska. It was originally photograpged 63 years previously on August 13th, 1941 by glaciologist William O. Field, wherein the encompassing Muir Glacier system encompassed the entire channel in a 2,000ft thick ice sheet.
Back then it was nothing but barren land covered in ice, but by 2004, the main Muir Glacier had retreated 4.3 miles to the northwest, leaving the Riggs' Glacier as its former tributary over this open ocean fjord. Also by this point, the glacier had gone so far up the valley that it no longer shed icebergs into the sea, becoming a land-terminating glacier that allowed coastal vegetation to take root and expand in its wake.
The remaining ice field feeding Muir Glacier has continued to thin at or above 3 meters per year, causing its remaining tributaries to disconnect as they receed ever deeper into the valley. This dramatic ecological transition has turned a massive, dominating glacial landscape into a more temperate forest environment, as seen with the open blue water surrounded by thick, mature vegetation and small trees which remind me of the horrid broccoli I will forever abstain from consuming.
The images from 1941 and 2004 only form half of an iconic "repeat photography" pair in environmental science, serving as an exemplary visual example of the effects of global warming and rapid global glacier retreat. Soon, the last tributaries of this once grand glacier system will be reduced to ice cubes in my apple juice, due to the global warming you idiotic adults have wrought from your abuse of this planet.
And once this planet has dried out and become a barren desert, I shall rule over your corpses as a domineering warlord, commanding the wastelands of the Earth with Rupert at my side. Now go fetch Brian, I am in need of a misunderstood pet to terrorize before my afternoon snack and subsequent nap time.
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u/Kriptic_TKM 3h ago
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muir_Inlet apparently a glacier that has been going back due to climate change
This seems to be an old pic of it https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/muir-and-riggs-glaciers-muir-inlet-alaska-1941
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u/NextLvlSurvivor 3h ago
Glacier before the climate crisis.
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u/According-Pass8230 2h ago
The glaciers have been declining for a couple hundred years. They would dissapear even if there was no humans on earth. We speed up the decline but its not like we could stop the ice age from ending.
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u/Tigarana 2h ago
Vastly different scale..
That's like saying "people have always been dying, so we should never give medical attention to anyone".
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u/Syzygy___ 2h ago
I don't know how valid that actually is, however what I do know is that the speed of change is unprecedented and is/will cause massive issues from mass extinctions to food shortages and mass migrations.
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u/agasizzi 2h ago
And… it’s not the climate changing that is problematic, it’s the rate at which it’s happening that’s a threat to ecosystems and us.
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u/Agatio25 57m ago
In hundreds or thousands of years... Not 60...
The problem is not about the change. Is about the rate at what It is happening. It doens't let the enviroment and the wildlife to adapt properly trough natural selection.
This means whole ecosystems can collapse.
Like Bugs... This year I haven't saw any moth sneak in my house when 10 years ago they were a nightmare...
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u/ConcertCultural997 48m ago
Annnd this half truth is what Fox News will spout on steroids, unbuckling its pants and spewing its seed into the mouths of delighted climate deniers … ActUALly THe ICe hAS AlwAYS MeLTeD and IS NatuRALly MeLTInG …. OBaMA
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u/BoomBoxPizza 1h ago
The earth gets hotter, the earth gets cooler, the earth gets hotter, the earth gets cooler. Been doing the same thing pretty much from the jump.
Why does such a large group of people think it’s humans causing this?
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u/YannisTheStoic 1h ago
Because over the past ~150 years, humans have been extracting and burning enormous amounts of fossil fuels, clearing forests, and altering ecosystems in ways that significantly change the atmosphere.
Saying “Earth has warmed and cooled naturally before” doesn’t tell us what is causing the warming happening now.
It’s like setting your house on fire and then saying, “Houses get built and destroyed all the time, so why assume I caused this one?”
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u/proudjester 1h ago
because demonstrating it isn't human-caused would win you a Noble prize
As it is, it's been as simple as "the CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by humans every single day correlates with the increased average warming we've measured" - and that warming is significant
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u/BoomBoxPizza 42m ago
So was it the dinosaurs pumping CO2 into the atmosphere when the earth was 30C on average warmer in the Jurassic?
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u/areallydrunkcat 19m ago
It was not 30C warmer, where are you getting that from? It also didn't become that warm on a time frame that is effectively overnight when seen from a geological time scale. And we've got a pretty good idea of why it was warmer then, what makes you think we can't figure it out now?
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u/BoomBoxPizza 1h ago
The earth gets hotter, the earth gets cooler, the earth gets hotter, the earth gets cooler. Been doing the same thing pretty much from the jump.
Why does such a large group of people think it’s humans causing this?
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u/thoughtlow 3h ago
idk saw this online, seems like a nice landscape?
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u/Fairplayer97 3h ago
Climate change, there used to be a glacier about 4,5 miles that disappeard caused by climate change and now only water is left
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u/According-Pass8230 2h ago
The Little Ice Age ended in ~1850. Its been declining since then. Humans are not the reason its decling but we are speeding it up.
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u/Fairplayer97 2h ago
Thats a fact. Climate would change without us for sure, we only as you wrote just speed it up.
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