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As climate clock ticks, aviator races to photograph glaciers

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By NAT CASTAÑEDA

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and how abt his planes carbon print?

could use drone instead!

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Like everyone else, we visited the Mendenhall Glacier while in Juneau, Alaska. Pictures inside the visitor center, from the time it was opened, in 1962, show the glacier as right outside the window. Today the glacier has retreated to the point that it is reasonable to wonder how much longer it will be visible from the visitor center.

The article mentions Voss, Norway. I can attest that there is a lot of snow over there. One can imagine the whole of Scandinavia under an ice sheet during the last ice age. The ice sheet scoured the top soil away, so that today there is hardly any left. Here in the States we have vast areas with lots of top soil and sunlight, but not enough fresh water, and in Scandinavia they have lots of water, but not enough soil, and a short growing season.

On the subject of fresh water, there is currently a proposal being considered to build the world's largest desalination plant, in Sonora, Mexico, to supply fresh water to Sonora and Arizona, with private money. That whole area has the potential to be a garden. Just add water.

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