What do glaciers tell us about climate change?
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Glacier are pretty and move around a lot on the landscape due to the random stochastic climate forcing inherent to a constant climate. They obviously also respond to changes in climate. The tricky part is whether, in absence of direct instrumental measurements, climate changes can be inferred from variations in glacier length.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008