PORTLAND, Oregon – Olympic Peninsula glaciers will be little more than a memory in 50 years.
That’s according to climate researchers from Portland State University.
Their study finds that climate change will claim most of the peninsula’s glaciers, with a few remaining as just shells of their former selves.
Geology professor Andrew Fountain tells Q-13 News that we’re on a “global warming train” that can’t be stopped “even if we’re super good citizens.”
He says the atmosphere wouldn’t respond for at least 100 years even if we quite emitting carbon right now.
Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows a similar result for glaciers in the North Cascades, at Glacier National Park and in Alaska.