[2] The future toward which we now rush is unbelievable, even though the evidence of retreating glaciers, massive ice break - ups at both poles, and a melting permafrost is before our eyes. (grist.org)
Some of the processes at work are vividly illustrated at Glacier Bay National Park, where some of the most rapidly retreating glaciers in the world are visited each year by hundreds of thousands of tourists, many on cruise ships. (sciencedaily.com)
It has always amazed me, Andy, or would if there was anything left in climate psyence that could, that people leap and down and point to trees or dead bodies that suddenly appear from retreating glaciers as evidence that it is all worse than we thought and we are all doomed, etc, without apparently drawing the obvious conclusion that at some stage in the past that bit of countryside must have been able to support life. (notrickszone.com)