How climate change is making Mt. Hood harder to climb

How climate change is making Mt. Hood harder to climb

I’m also posting a picture (by Gary Braasch) presented in the OPB/Ecotrope article 

that shows the decline in the glaciers at Mt. Hood.  

OPB has issued an article about the impact of climate change on Mt. Hood.  The article talks about both the impact on climbing Mt. Hood as well as the long-term trend of the threat of severely reduced water flows in late summer.  We all understand the importance of the annual snow pack to summer water flows.  But the glacier ice is also a reservoir of water that has been depleting significantly. http://ecotrope.opb.org/2011/06/how-climate-change-is-making-mt-hood-harder-to-climb/

PSU has a web-site which highlights and discusses the glaciers in the West  http://glaciers.pdx.edu/GlacierTimeline/GlacierTimeline.html   It worth a quick look.

The West is not the only area impacted by receding glaciers.  Here is a recent article about the Andes http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/climate-change-threatens-a-fragile-ecosystem-in-the-andes   and the Himalayan controversy continues http://www.hindustantimes.com/Himalayan-glacier-controversy/Article1-707148.aspx

A discussion of “water accounting” and agroforestry is provided in this article http://westernfarmpress.com/management/water-agriculture-dwindles-climate-change

Also we have our earlier posting http://viewfromcrutchersbench.blogspot.com/2011/05/mount-hoods-unique-economy.html