More specifically, American newspaper & almanac reports of severe glacier melt appeared in print from 1872 to 1879. Newspaper reports of worldwide glacier melt also appeared in print in 1881 ... 1902 ... 1905 ... 1907 ... 1910-1912 ... 1915 ... 1922 ... 1925 ... 1927 ... 1934 ... 1938 ... and in 1952.
There was also a California Geological Survey Report published in 1882 which was a history lesson of glaciers past, going back to the Year 1818. Even in 2005, there was published (first in French) a detailed proxy-evidence research report which covered the state of the glaciers in Bolivia & Peru, dating back to 1590.
Directly below is a 112 yr old newspaper article, from 1912, when the CO2 and Methane levels were much lower than there are today. That news article is a Climate Deja Vu.
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90% of all greenhouse gases, by volume, is WATER VAPOR. CO2 does NOT compare.
Glacier Diminution is NOT a never-before-experienced phenomenon. The rise & fall of glacier size does NOT parallel itself with the atmospheric CO2 level in any capacity. Glaciers have been known to "wax and wane" and even disappear with time, regardless of the amount of CO2 found outdoors and amongst the clouds.
All in all, glaciers do NOT act in tandem with the CO2 level and/or the methane level and/or the very minute nitrous oxide level in the atmosphere. After all, methane contains merely 1 carbon atom and its present outdoor level is 1.9 parts per million. Nitrous Oxide carries no carbon footnote at all, being that it contains ZERO carbon atoms, and its present atmospheric level a mere 0.3 part per million. That's one-third of a part per million.
Glacier advance and/or glacier retreat is NOT commensurate with the CO2 level and/or the methane level and/or the nitrous oxide level outdoors. Neither CO2 nor methane nor nitrous oxide rules the glaciers in any capacity at all, whatsoever, in the least.
In statistical specificity, the atmospheric CO2 level in 1872 was only 288 ppm. In 1922, it was 304 ppm, and in 1952, it was a moderate 311 ppm. Those years of low atmospheric CO2 were years of high glacier melt ... or they were years into the advanced stage of prolonged glacier recession. Therefore, according to the Al Gore Theory of Atmospheric CO2, glaciers should not have undergone any significant melt in the 1870s or in the early 20th Century. Thus, Al Gore is proven to be invalid. Meanwhile, in March of 2025 the CO2 level reached 429 parts per million.
Below is the original & unedited version of the same article which was first published in 1910. Each of the two versions carries one bit of info that the other version excluded.
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One more Introductory Example:
A certain farmer in Peru is suing a certain corporation, claiming that the defendant corporation is causing the nearby glaciers to wane ... to retreat ... to recede ... to shrink ... to melt ... to disappear, due to "carbon emissions." And of course, the nearby glaciers are the CORDILLERA mountain glaciers, along the Andes mountain range.
Well, the glaciers throughout the Cordillera Mountains were reported to have been "retreating" as far back as 120 years ago. Furthermore, a 21st Century proxy-evidence research project found that those Peruvian Tropical glaciers reached their largest size in 1720 and then began to recede ever since, amidst intervals of "stabilisation."
Below: In three parts: is a newspaper article which reported on the glaciers' ice loss throughout the world ... in 1904 ... when the atmospheric CO2 level was only 297 ppm. That amounts to 132 ppm LESS THAN TODAY. Keep in mind that, throughout the Medieval Era and the Renaissance Era, the CO2 level hovered mostly at the 284 ppm level. At the end of the last major Ice Age, the CO2 level was 180. During the Persian, Macedonian, & Roman Empire Years, the CO2 level was 260 ppm.
The article below also makes mention of the glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range, in Peru. For the record, there are presently 722 glaciers there, in that Tropical region. 530 of those glaciers are on the western side, while 192 glaciers are on the eastern side. Moreover, 91% of those glaciers are mountain glaciers.
Directly below is Part 1 of a 1904 newspaper article.
Directly below is Part 2 of the same news article.
Directly below is Part 3 of the same January 1904 news article.
Above: Let me go one step further, concerning the "Tropical Glaciers" of Peru and even Bolivia. In 2005, Comptes Rendus Geoscience published, Dating of Little Ice Age glacier fluctuations in the tropical Andes: Charquini glaciers, Bolivia, 16°S. [A. Rabatel et al., C. R. Geoscience 337 (2005)]
The conclusion was that the Andes glaciers achieved their largest size ... their glacial maximum ... between 1590 and 1720 AD. This maximum was ...
... "followed by nearly continuous retreat (with three interruptions)
during the 18th and 19th Centuries, marked by stabilisation or minor advances."
The scientific finding was that, "This leads to the conclusion that glaciers in Bolivia, as well as in Peru, have clearly retreated after the 17th century maximum and during the whole 19th century."
This means that, when the Year 1900 arrived, the recession of these glaciers was long-since underway, and all times involving this shrinkage of glacier size in the Andes occurred while the CO2 level was very low. The methane level was also low. Therefore, this shows that the Al Gore Theory of CO2 Driving Earth's Climate is a bogus theory.
This, therefore, means that "no carbon footprinted greenhouse gas concentration" caused the Andes glaciers to retreat ... to recede ... to melt ... to wane ... to shrink in size. This glacier waning is something that has been occurring for centuries, long before the "lawsuit defendant corporation" even came into existence. As a reminder, the lawsuit plaintiff is a Peruvian farmer.
Alaska, in comparison
In comparison to Tropical glaciers, the Arctic Circle State of Alaska presently has approximately 27,000 glaciers occupying 34,000 Square Miles of terrain. The great irony here is that, during the last major Ice Age, Alaska was entirely glacier-free, from the Brooks Range to the Alaska Range. That region was grassland. In fact, today's Arctic Circle is NOT a massive & uninhabitable iceberg.
Even today, there is forestland within the Arctic Circle, above 66.5N, and up to 72.30N. It's known as the Taiga or the Boreal Forest, and it covers Canada, the very northern sector of Scandinavian, and Russia. This includes the White Spruce, Arctic Willow, Dwarf Birch, Larch, and Scots Pine, as well as the Arctic Dandelion, Arctic Mouse-Ear, Moss Campion, Mountain Avens, Arctic Bell Heather, Arctic Yellow Whitlow grass, and other species. In addition, there are Arctic Circle cities with mild summertime weather. In fact, 2.3 million Russians live in the Arctic Circle.
Remember, glaciers move and even operate as primitive bulldozers on terrain. In as much, a glacier needs to be at least 98 feet thick, in order to be capable of motion. In fact, a glacier's air content is only 20%, whereas freshly fallen snow contains 90% air, and granular ice contains 50% air. It takes 5 years of compression to make glacier ice. Such ice transforms from Firn which happens to be slightly aged snow, at 35 lbs per cubic foot.
Glacier Recession ... otherwise known as Glacier Retreat ... is NOT a never-before-experienced phenomenon. It's a repetitive process within intervals of time. In recorded scientific history, the acknowledgement of receding glaciers dates back to the later half of the 19th Century. This is in keeping with the fact that the Little Ice Age ended in 1840 ... with the pending arrival of the warm-weather Phytophthora Infestans which caused the European Potato Famine. Thus, shrinking glaciers were a topic in journalism.
In preliminary review
The dreaded environmental menace in the sky is PM2.5. The other environmental menace is the collective glut of synthetic chemicals allowed to permeate anarchically throughout the air space of modern society. And the great heat retainer is actually asphalt.
In fact, cirrus clouds are a more effective retainer of infrared light/heat than is CO2 and methane combined. Methane exists at 2 parts per million is the sky outdoors. Plus, every methane molecule is four parts Hydrogen, compared to only one part Carbon. In the 1990s, it was recognized as the cleanest burning fuel. Then came Al Gore and the dishonest Michael Mann who was recently cited a second time for fraudulent pleadings in a court of law.
Come and learn how much "people in power & influence" lied to you and the rest of humanity
Within this discourse: There are over two dozen pieces of photo-copied evidentiary support here, to prove that Glacier Recession ... aka glacier shrinkage & severe glacier melting ... had long since been identified, in cyclical intervals of time, very much before the noted rise in atmospheric CO2. There is also the previously mentioned 1882 California Geological Survey Report that was a result of the then-recent California Gold Rush. It's content constitutes invaluable information. Incidentally, the atmospheric CO2 level in 1882 was 291 parts per million.
These pieces of evidence also show that there is NO CLIMATE CRISIS of any kind today, consisting of any type of "never-before-experienced" weather event. Whatever the weather event was in the past five years, it has happened before, at a greater intensity, when the CO2 level was much lower than it is today. This includes heatwaves, droughts & forest fires, as much as glacier size.
As a comparative example, it was reported that the 2023 American heatwave death toll for July was 2,300. Earlier in May of 2023, 995 died in the American Northwest heatwave. Well, in the 1911 American East Coast heatwave, there were approximately 2,000 deaths induced by that heatwave.
In fact, during the same Summer of 1911, Paris had one of its three tragic heatwaves. In a seventy-day period 41,072 people died in France, from the heat. The other two tragic heatwave years in Paris were in 1976 and in 2003. In fact, there was also the report of a deadly Parisian heatwave in 1636, as well as in 1718. And take note that 1636 was before the Industrial Revolution.
Concerning this, keep in mind that the 2023 population of Planet Earth is far greater than was the 1911 population, especially as it concerns the American West which was basically New-Land in the early 20th Century. However, the important feature of today is that there is more asphalt in the cities than there was in the early 20th Century. This is especially the case out West. In as much, asphalt is the ultimate trapper of heat. In the 21st Century, there are Heat Islands which happen to be metropolises.
Asphalt is an undeniable problem, concerning summertime surface temperatures. The small amount of CO2 in the sky is not the problem. Particular Matter smaller than 2.5 microns is the ultimate environmental problem, concerning the outdoor surface area of civilization. Indoors, the environmental scandal is the glut of synthetic chemicals which end up in lungs, endocrine systems, water supplies, refined foods, and the air we all end up breathing. Not CO2.
Statistics from the Ghost of Glaciers Past
Concerning the 24 or so pieces of evidentiary support within this post, one of them is a statistical analysis which shows that there was not that much glacial ice loss in the Alpine Region between 1973 and 2016. Yet, that was when the outdoor CO2 Count was on the rise. Thus, according to the Al Gore Theory of Climate, those glaciers and all glaciers should have been shrinking at a rate equal to the rise in atmospheric CO2. But, they did not melt in tandem with CO2's rise.
In fact, it was 1979 when there was the most Arctic Sea Ice Extent in recorded history, showing the Al Gore & Michael Mann CO2 Climate Theory to be non-factual. The 1979 CO2 level should have prevented this record high Arctic Sea Ice Extent number.
The fact that the rising level of CO2 did not stop the 1979 sea ice parade proves that CO2 does NOT drive the climate, as the Al Gore & Michael Mann People claim. The Sun drives the climate, along with ======>
~ Pressure Gradient Forcing, ~ the Tilt of the Earth, and ~ the Coriolis Effect
which also causes a 90-degree descending sea motion effect, called
~"Eckman Transport."
In fact, the 23 1/2 degree Tilt of the Earth is the sole cause for the four seasons in the middle latitudes of Planet Earth. It's the sole cause for the 6-months-of-day & six-months-of-night at the Polar Caps. All in all, it's now concluded that CO2 does NOT drive the climate. The Sun does.
Moreover, CO2 is NOWHERE NEAR the Predominate Greenhouse Gas. Water vapor is, by far. All in all, the Earth's Climate is much like the Phases of the Moon. It waxes and wanes. End of preliminary tutorial.
In Part 2, you'll get to read at least 14 photocopied newspaper articles of many decades past which reported on shrinking glaciers. Some of those newspaper articles are over 100 years old.
