Alaska capital takes stock after worst flooding yet caused by retreating glacier
Alaska capital takes stock after worst flooding yet caused by retreating glacier
Juneau residents clear sodden homes after lake dammed by Mendenhall Glacier gives way in what is now yearly event
Glacial outburst floods in Juneau, Alaska are a direct consequence of climate change. The lake that forms behind the ice dam was formerly a glaciated area itself. Now water ponds there before getting around the ice dam and flooding neighborhoods in Juneau.
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Flooding in the last month in the US? Texas, Florida, Alaska. Two cat 1 hurricanes that dumped far more water than predicted and a unprecedented glacial melt event.
How comforting we have a acted aggressively on mitigating this and climate change generally. Oh wait... 2.1° here we come.
(Feel free to add more, I can't know them all.)
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...and then, it got worse...
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"Retreating glacier" feels like a euphemism to make the destruction of glaciers sound like they just decided to move somewhere else.