Glaciers of the Winds
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- Glaciers of the Winds is a one-hour documentary on the scientific exploration and retreat of the glaciers in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming. WyomingPBS will look at the big picture of how receding alpine glaciers will affect the ecosystem, municipalities, farmers, and ranchers downstream.
Wonderful video of a beautiful place, played out at a pace that's lets you think a little about what is seen on the screen. Thank you.
Excellent program!!
Wow what a nice trail makes it real easy. Great to have horses.lucky people
In Canada we know all about black snow. We see it in the spring when the melt begins. All the dirt and dust turns the very top layer black and it melts much faster. To see that this happens all over the world is not a stretch.
You are not nothing.. you just don't realize your strength.
As a planet, we need to be thinking about, what we are going to do with out glaciers as they are today.
Pivot irrigation system, is the way to go.
Some scientists, are of the opinion that we have already crossed the threshold. Meaning that no matter what we do from here on out, The Earth will become Hotter & Hotter!
To Me It Looks like They are Working at a Playing!!!
Glaciers provide water , which is essential for every living thing on earth.
Mountain glaciers are going away all around the world. For the Northern Hemisphere it is only in the very center of Greenland that glaciers are not substantially melting. Antarctica though is doing well, as the areas besides the coastal areas and the Palmer Peninsula are gaining ice mass. This is because the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture is an exponential function, not a linear function. Antarctica was (is) in a situation where the atmosphere couldn't hold much moisture. Now that Antarctica has warmed, the atmosphere can now hold more moisture which gets shed as snow. However...the oceans around Antarctica are warming causing the warmer water to undercut the ice shelves and weaken them. For now there are relatively small (Rhode Island) sized ice shelves that are being calved as icebergs. The real giant ice shelves disintegrating will happen over the next century.
I have a house in the Wind River foothills. I have seen the climatic change firsthand. The cheat grass season was strictly a May-early June growing season. Now there is a September growing season with a wet snow or rain in September and October which gives a second growing season. Also cheat grass is a CAM4 plant that uses more carbon from carbon dioxide to grow than most plants. Therefore, cheat grass will get worse as years pass as the atmosphere has more carbon dioxide.
There haven't been long cold spells in December-February that kills pine beetles for decades. It is now raining in January and February at 9,000 ft which it never did before. The rain will freeze and crust over to prevent wildlife from eating during the winter.
If we don't get a green economy soon our way or life will be radically changed. The residence time of carbon dioxide averaged over many sequestering processes is around a hundred years. Therefore, what we do as a society now impacts many future generations. Our quarterly profit driven economy is destroying our long term vision and future. I'm sorry that I'm a pessimist but I don't see humans pulling their heads out of their asses anytime soon. Just look at the politicians we elect in Wyoming...case closed.
But not a word of the elephant in the room... fore!
NO OBSIDION CLIFFS?!!!?!??!!
For the most part the Earth 🌎🌍 is becoming a Hotter Dryer Place!
Removing the wolf was a dumb idea
Removing? Lol
On a perperson basis, Wyoming emits more carbon dioxide than any other state or any other country: 276,000 pounds (125,000 kg) of it per capita a year, because of burning coal, which provides nearly all of the state's electrical power.[1]
WhoFramedMSG This is misleading, Wyoming produces a lot of power by coal because it is close to the coal and cheaper then shipping it thousands of miles via rail. Most of this power is exported to other states. For instance, the Jim Bridger coal power plant is one of the US largest. It has a high voltage interconnect to the main grids that provide power to Salt Lake City, Idaho, et.al. this is it's main client. We do not use all of that power here.
I'm not convinced with your carbon dioxide pollution figures , I'd say New Jersey's and Kentucky have got 'em beat on a per capita basis plus Wy. has a strong conservation ethic that NJ doesn't.
@@ken76918 damn if only you guys had wind or solar power...
@@OldDunollieman I feel like your statistics based on....how you feel? Is a less reliable source than my collected data from us government. But hey whatever helps you sleep at night
What a misleading and pointless statistics, based on your information places like California and New York are the gold standard of emission regulation. What BS and who cares.
The earth has been undergoing physical change throughout its existence. The most adaptable life forms on the planet tend to be the most enduring, but virtually none are permanent. Accept and embrace the inevitability of change and strive to adapt. Shedding the fantasy that humanity is the most important life form to evolve on the planet and embracing the reality that it is not would be a positive step in the right direction.
True, and we must also strive to not cause change.
@@ottomatic3123 We don't, it's insignificant
Humans dream of sleep.
The movie says the little ice age took place from 1400 to 1900. So 121 years later, you would expect it to be getting warmer. Even without manmade global warming. But at the end, they blame manmade global warming on the natural return to “normal” that is still happening. The coincidence of the little ice age ending at the time the industrial revolution began is just that - a coincidence - as opposed to a correlation.
Believe what the oil industry says, but the changes in the last 20 years are startling. I know, I am one who gathers the data. The Little Ice Age was " just a blip" as they said. The beginning of the industrial revolution probably had no definite impact as the rise of gases takes years. Methane will continue to rise even if we stop the input. People really did not notice any change in the climate up to 1980. But we do now. I never had air conditioing but that changed in 2015. Hot and dry over the west, and it continued ever year and another severe year was 2021. 2023 looks like it could be another severe year.
Plant trees everywhere. Stop paving the earth with black top, cement. Car pool get rid of yhauts ,stop container ships. Get the billionaires to change their damaging life styles . Half airplanes no private planes for government officals
This planet has been changing since the beginning of time. How can someone being so educated be so misled or misleading. I wonder how the glaciers disappeared before man. I would guess dinosaur gas.
Thank you for stating this, I wonder if PBS would lose all funding if they told the TRUTH! Public funded through our taxes and agenda driven from their scientists!
That's not a good thing.
Uhhhh these cheesy annoying people talking are so irritating. Just have a decent person capable of narrating properly , do the voiceover and show the content and be done with the annoying crap and the irritating music. This is yet smother typical propaganda video to promote fear and chaos .. go after all these so-called elite , power hungry ppl trying to control the world and remove plls rights and stop buying into all this politically correct bs... there are so many things that could be done , if people would actually focus on getting legislation changed to protect resources and wildlife ... but everyone would rather just go on and on about everything and nothings being done that actually makes a difference ..
sky is falling propaganda.