Ironically, the USGS reported in 2003 that the Hubbard Glacier was
“growing and advancing in spite of global climate change“
I wonder if more recent data confirm the advance? The USGS fact sheet above goes as far as to say that
“Calving Glaciers are Unresponsive to Climate…Hubbard Glacier is defying the global paradigm of valley or mountain glacier shrinkage and retreat in response to global climate warming. Hubbard Glacier is the largest of eight calving glaciers in Alaska that are currently increasing in total mass and advancing. All of these glaciers calve into the sea, are at the heads of long fiords, have undergone retreats during the last 1,000 years, calve over relatively shallow submarine moraines, and have unusually small ablation areas compared to their accumulation areas.”
