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Glaciers
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. Glaciers slowly deform and flow under stresses induced by their weight, creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such as cirques, moraines, or fjords. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the much thinner sea ice and lake ice that forms on the surface of bodies of water.
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We can think of climate change like a bullet about to leave a gun aimed for our heads. If it were a real gun and a real bullet, we’d react immediately and try to run for cover. But the climate change bullet is a bullet that won’t immediately kill us, and “we know it. It will take time for it to reach us, maybe a decade, or several decades, or even a century. We might not even be around when it hits, and instead of killing us, it will kill our children or our grandchildren, or someone else’s chil
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― Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers
― Meltdown: The Earth Without Glaciers
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Maybe she'll bring him lunch, like she used to. Surprise him with fresh steak or ribs. Or she'll keep driving to places where there is no development, no dirt to move. She will find a glacier, where her skin can adopt the pale blue of the ice, still hard, refusing to melt for anyone or anything.
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― Nothing but the Dead and Dying
― Nothing but the Dead and Dying
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