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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (5126)	4/11/2010 1:21:18 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 48970

I thought something had already been posted on this. Anyway, the last 2 words in the headline are the most important. Not to me, but to the movers and shakers of Mont. Climate change threatening Glacier National Park and Montana's economy April 9, 5:21 PM Portland Green Business Examiner Paul Fox Climate change is seen as threatening the ecology of Glacier National Park in a new report from the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization (RMCO) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Over the last decade the increase in the average temperature at Glacier National Park has been almost twice as great as the average temperature increase for the earth as a whole as compared to a baseline average temperature for the period 1950-1979. For both the one weather station in the park with relatively long-term records, West Glacier station at park headquarters and the planet as a whole, the decade 2000-2009 was the hottest in the history of instrumental measurements. A just-completed update by the U.S. Geological Survey, not previously reported publicly, finds that of the 37 named glaciers in the park, only 25 remain large enough to still be considered glaciers. Glacier is on track to lose all or nearly all of its glaciers, Seven years ago, scientists projected that even modestly hotter summers could eliminate all glaciers in one basin in the park by 2030. Since that study was published, the glaciers in the basin have melted faster than projected. One author of that study, Daniel B. Fagre of the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Mountain Science Center, says the basin's glaciers could be gone in just 10 years. Tourism is Montana's number 2 industry which brings in almost $3 billion to the state's economy, and Glacier National Park is a “top draw.” The loss of the glaciers and their dependent ecosystems would no doubt lessen the appeal of the park and result in a large monetary loss to the Montana economy. For more info: rockymountainclimate.org, nrdc.org examiner.com