On the other hand, I thank Bob for diligently going over the data every month. We know there is some sort of link between the solar cycle and planetary climate. The loss of glaciers, on a planetary scale, is somewhat small. On a one by one scale it can e large. I go back to the Athabasca glacier where we learned crevasse rescue using 60′ deep crevasses that now are bare rock, or the loss of the “Skyladder” on Mt Andromeda etc, But to be noted is that the rate of retreat reduced after 1950 as marked by Parks Canada’s monitoring of the Athabasca’s toe.

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