Glaciers Shrinking For 100 Years

This study says glaciers were shrinking long before George W. Bush got into office. We're physicists, not glaciologists ( though it sounds like the kind of cool, non-specific, government-funded title that could be a lot of fun ) so we're inclined to look for the opposing view as well. We should receive that via email, with accompanying hate-filled invective, shortly after this hits the internet. Danish researchers from Aarhus University studied glaciers on Disko island - you know, western Greenland - from the 1880s until now. "This study, which covers 247 of 350 glaciers on Disko, is the most comprehensive ever conducted on the movements of Greenland's glaciers," said glaciologist Jacob Clement Yde, who carried out the study with Niels Tvis Knudsen. Using maps from the 19th century and current satellite observations, the scientists were able to conclude that "70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at a rate of around eight meters per year," Yde said. I don't think anyone disputes there is global warming, I just think politicians and their scientists of similar bent disagree on whether over-politicized CO2 emissions are the cause. This study said it comes from plants. It's a little silly for politicians on one side to be blaming politicians on the other side for too many plants. Again, we're physicists and we have poor grasp of things we know nothing about so correct our logic in thinking that, if 90,000 out of every 100,000 years of world history have been ice ages ... and it's been 12,000 years since the last one ... we had better hope that global warming thing sticks around.