{"id":181,"date":"2012-09-17T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T15:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2013-11-05T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T23:59:35","slug":"alaska","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div\n\tclass=\"ngg-galleryoverview ngg-ajax-pagination-none\"\n\tid=\"ngg-gallery-30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0-1\">\n\n    \t<div class=\"slideshowlink\">\n        <a href='http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/alaska\/nggallery\/slideshow'>[Show as slideshow]<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-0\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0238.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0238.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0238.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"53\"\n               data-title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0238.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-1\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0281.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0281.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0281.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"54\"\n               data-title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.13.08 | Whiteout Glacier, Alaska, June 13, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0281.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-2\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0936.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.19.08 | Climber on iceberg, Columbia Bay, Alaska; June 19, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-0936.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0936.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"55\"\n               data-title=\"6.19.08 |  on iceberg, Columbia Bay, Alaska; June 19, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.19.08 | Climber on iceberg, Columbia Bay, Alaska; June 19, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.19.08 |  on iceberg, Columbia Bay, Alaska; June 19, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.19.08 |  on iceberg, Columbia Bay, Alaska; June 19, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-0936.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1432.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.20.08 | Calving face of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1432.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1432.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"56\"\n               data-title=\"6.20.08 | Calving face of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.20.08 | Calving face of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.20.08 | Calving face of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.20.08 | Calving face of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1432.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-4\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1498.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1498.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1498.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"57\"\n               data-title=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1498.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-5\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1793.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/ak-6-08-1793.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1793.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"58\"\n               data-title=\"6.20.08 | \ufeff\ufeffMeltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               data-description=\"6.20.08 | Meltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.20.08 | \ufeff\ufeffMeltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    alt=\"6.20.08 | \ufeff\ufeffMeltwater on surface of Columbia Glacier, Columbia Bay, Alaska, June 20, 2008\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_ak-6-08-1793.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-6\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_061606_-0028.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.16.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, Alaska.  The ice scene in the bergs was deposited in snowstorms 300 to 500 years ago.\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_061606_-0028.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_061606_-0028.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"62\"\n               data-title=\"6.16.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay\"\n               data-description=\"6.16.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, Alaska.  The ice scene in the bergs was deposited in snowstorms 300 to 500 years ago.\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.16.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay\"\n                    alt=\"6.16.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_061606_-0028.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-7\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_061706_-0048_lg.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.17.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_061706_-0048_lg.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_061706_-0048_lg.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"63\"\n               data-title=\"6.17.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n               data-description=\"6.17.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.17.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    alt=\"6.17.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_061706_-0048_lg.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-8\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062206_420.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.22.06 | Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Contrasts between clean glacial melt water and water laden with eroded silt color these lakes on the surface of the East Fork of Columbia Glacier. Black stripes are erosional debris called &quot;moraines.&quot;\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062206_420.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062206_420.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"64\"\n               data-title=\"6.22.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n               data-description=\"6.22.06 | Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Contrasts between clean glacial melt water and water laden with eroded silt color these lakes on the surface of the East Fork of Columbia Glacier. Black stripes are erosional debris called &quot;moraines.&quot;\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.22.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    alt=\"6.22.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062206_420.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-9\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-355.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.23.06 | Aerial view of Columbia Glacier in Alaska.The trimline (seen on the slope to the right) shows the deflation of the ice mass of the Columbia Glacier since 1984.  Greenish snow-covered vegetation is above the trimline and uniform gray rock is below the trimline.  In 1984, the glacier was 1300 feet (400m) thicker than it was at the time this picture was made in June, 2006; the height of deflation is equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-355.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-355.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"65\"\n               data-title=\"6.23.06 | Trimline showing the deflation of the ice mass of the Columbia Glacier since 1984.\"\n               data-description=\"6.23.06 | Aerial view of Columbia Glacier in Alaska.The trimline (seen on the slope to the right) shows the deflation of the ice mass of the Columbia Glacier since 1984.  Greenish snow-covered vegetation is above the trimline and uniform gray rock is below the trimline.  In 1984, the glacier was 1300 feet (400m) thicker than it was at the time this picture was made in June, 2006; the height of deflation is equivalent to the height of the Empire State Building\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.23.06 | Trimline showing the deflation of the ice mass of the Columbia Glacier since 1984.\"\n                    alt=\"6.23.06 | Trimline showing the deflation of the ice mass of the Columbia Glacier since 1984.\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-355.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-10\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-450.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-450.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-450.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"66\"\n               data-title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n               data-description=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    alt=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-450.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-11\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-467.jpg\"\n               title=\"Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay 6.23.06 | west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-467.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-467.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"67\"\n               data-title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-description=\"Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay 6.23.06 | west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n                    alt=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n                    src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-467.jpg\"\n                    width=\"100\"\n                    height=\"75\"\n                    style=\"max-width:none;\"\n                \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n        \n\t\t\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-12\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\" >\n\t\t\t\t        <div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\">\n            <a href=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-479_lg.jpg\"\n               title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-src=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/mm7246_062306_-479_lg.jpg\"\n               data-thumbnail=\"http:\/\/extremeicesurvey.org\/wp-content\/gallery\/alaska\/thumbs\/thumbs_mm7246_062306_-479_lg.jpg\"\n               data-image-id=\"68\"\n               data-title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               data-description=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n               class=\"shutterset_30fd67dbc8c2faa44d13869b899e99f0\">\n                <img\n                    title=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. When tidewater glaciers like this one reach an unstable phase, vast amounts of ice can be dumped very rapidly into the sea--and such processes are analogous to what will happen to the tidewater outlet glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica should those ice sheets reach a phase of instability caused by global warming. The ice shown in the bergs was deposited in the glacier centuries if not millennia ago, but is broken up and turned into seawater in a matter of years or decades once a recessional phase of the glacier begins.\"\n                    alt=\"6.23.06 | Columbia Glacier calves icebergs into Columbia Bay west of Valdez, AK. since 1984, the glacier has retreated 16 km. This retreat is caused partly by global warming but mostly but dynamics of the glacier&#039;s drainage processes. 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