Updated 12 October 03
Glaciers growing on California's Mount Shasta!
Oct 12, 2003.
All seven glaciers on California's Mount Shasta'sare growing,
says Slawek Tulaczyk,
a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
This
includes three-mile-long Whitney, the state's largest. Not only are
the
glaciers growing, three of them have doubled in size since 1950.
Meanwhile,
seven smaller glaciers in California's Sierra Nevadas are
smaller than they
were 100 years ago.
This story, written by Usha Lee McFarling at the Los Angeles
Times, should
have been front page news. But no, it was published
on page B1. In the Seattle Times, it was published on page
16.
But did the headlines mention growing glaciers? Not on your life.
The L.A. Times shrieked "Sierra Glaciers
in Rapid Retreat." In Seattle,
the headline
read "California Glaciers Altered by Climate."
I'll leave it up to you. Are these headlines misleading or not?
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Back to List of Expanding Glaciers
See also Growing_Glaciers
See also Greenland
Icecap Growing Thicker
See also Antarctic
Icecap Growing Thicker
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