How about "The Park formerly known as Glacier National Park"?
GNP got its name for the 150 glaciers that it featured. Out of that 150, 124 are now gone. The rest? They're heading for the same fate.
Warming temperatures have rapidly reduced the size of 39 named glaciers in Montana since 1966, according to comparisons released by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Portland State University. Some have lost as much as 85% of their expanse over the past 50 years, with Glacier national park, site of 37 of the surveyed glaciers, set to lose all of its eponymous ice formations within the next few decades. Of the 150 glaciers that existed in the park in the late 19th century, only 26 remain.
The disappearance of glaciers in Montana is part of a broader loss that will see all glaciers, defined as moving bodies of snow and ice larger than 25 acres, largely vanish from the lower 48 states of America by the mid point of the century, according to Dr Daniel Farge, lead USGS scientist.
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Anyong....No longer the most corrupt president in American history, Nixon. And Bush no longer the dumbest President in American history. Both titles stolen in only 110 days.
That should have been posted to your High Crimes and Misdemeanours blog.
Trump certainly hasn't devastated America's Glacier National Park in a few months in office although he's doing nothing to ameliorate the situation. We can't blame today's climate change impacts on Trudeau either although his approach to the environmental cataclysm is really no better than Trump's.
On the local front.
http://www.metronews.ca/news/victoria/2014/05/22/vancouver-island-glaciers-will-be-gone-in-25-years-scientists-say.html
Pounding salt.
TB
All is not lost, the future is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM
TB
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