Last week, we busted New York Times climate Henry Fountain on the Mt. Rainier glacier. Today, Fountain weeps for Switzerland’s Trift glacier.
Henry writes:
But it looks like the Trift glacier has been melting since record keeping began in 1850 (Web | PDF):
It’s hard to tell from the graph what the Trift glacier retreat has to do with carbon dioxide. It is certainly no surprise that after 150 years of steady retreat, as the glacier nears its end, retreating has accelerated.