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Re: NOAA: 2014 is shaping up as hottest year on record
Those mountains would have moved a maximum of 29 centimeters over the course of 30 years. You really should brush up on your plate tectonics.
Snow lines moving up in altitude, as well as tree lines, and the retreat of alpine glaciers is happening in almost all mountain ranges across the globe.
Well, for one, those mountains aren't the same place on the globe as they were 30 years ago. The plates are moving and they may be located in a place where 40 feet to the west or south makes a difference. There's probably a whole lot more blacktop in the area than there was 30 years ago, blacktop collects and reflects heat pushing weather higher up the mountain (that's what happens when warm wind strike a mountain range). Could be your memory isn't what it used to be, Have you checked old Almanacs going back thirty years to see what actually happened?
Those mountains would have moved a maximum of 29 centimeters over the course of 30 years. You really should brush up on your plate tectonics.
Snow lines moving up in altitude, as well as tree lines, and the retreat of alpine glaciers is happening in almost all mountain ranges across the globe.