Glaciers Quotes

What we found was that the glaciers were formed from snow brought from the polar regions. - James Head

We don't think these are just bursts. We haven't seen any of these glaciers coming back to normal. - Eric Rignot

We did not look at one or two glaciers. We looked at all of them. - Eric Rignot

We can say that the glacier was ripping out a huge amount of material and dumping it into the ocean. And rather than taking evidence from a single instant, we can for the first time see an integral of hundreds of thousands of years. So this is a new way to get at the rate at which glaciers do their work. - Ken Farley

We are witnessing enormous changes, and it will take some time before we understand how it happened, although it is clearly a result of warming around the glaciers. - Eric Rignot

We are seeing signs of significant change in the Arctic with mountain glaciers retreating, snow cover disappearing, the Greenland ice sheet thinning and Arctic sea ice cover declining. There is no time to lose - we need to take drastic action now to combat climate change. - Andrew Lee

This park was not set up to preserve the mountains and the glaciers, it was set up to preserve the elk herd. It was originally Mount Olympus National Monument, to preserve the Olympic elk. - Jack Hughes

There is a big temperature contrast between the warm ocean water and the cold ice, and melting occurs at a very rapid rate. The melting reduces the friction that holds these glaciers back, allowing them to accelerate. - Robert Bindschadler

There are very obvious features we've observed that indicate in the last 20 years the climate has been changing. Just looking at the changes in the glaciers in 20 years, the glaciers on the coastlines have been reduced in volumes. - Scott Ishman