Yosemite Nature Notes - 12 - Glaciers

[@ManzanitaStarwood]

The power of ice is awesome. Very cool to see the rock “sandpaper” under the glacier.

[@Kevins93cobra]

Awesome video. I'll be spending two weeks in Yosemite this September and plan to head out to this area and see the glaciers and summit Mt. Lyell myself. Should be fun.

[@arealglitterb0y]

How was your trip Kevin?

[@Kevins93cobra]

@@arealglitterb0y Just did a day hike half way out there and back.

[@blueconversechucks]

perfect timing. i was just wondering about the glaciers.

[@mainmanmonty393]

1. How did the geologist define the glacier? 2. While inside the bergschrund, what did the geologist tap with his ice pick?. 3. As the camera looks up through the ice cave, what is lodged into the ice? 4. As the researchers hike uphill towards the glacier to explore, one person says they need to be careful 5. because the rocks may be loose and you could tip a rock over onto yourself. What is the name given to that surface of rock the researchers are carefully traversing? (one-word answer) What did the geologist predict will happen with the flora and fauna of the Maclure Glacier? 1. As millions and millions of snowflakes gathered on a mountainside slowly working their way downhill. - A massive ice that’s moving, flowing and sliding downslope. 2. Bedrock - the headwall of the serac the glacier’s formed in 3. Rocks and bedrock 4. Moraines 5. It’s going to keep going and under the summit and then it’s going to disappear and the fauna is going to do the same thing. The animals that live there won’t have anywhere to go and are eventually going to disappear along with the Lyell glacier.

[@shufx]

That's it, I'm going there and taking my son.

[@stateofmissouri5651]

anyone else here in the end of hell year 2020??

[@writebonartist]

Loved your talk last summer!

[@richbuckley6917]

Please post the latitude and longitude of the glacier in your notes.

[@mutum1]

69 , 420

[@mitchspurlock3626]

The second ranger sounds like Steve Zahn, maybe he found a new job after Strange Wilderness flopped.

[@TortureTestMagazine]

Hasty's assignment brought you here.

[@uncatila]

just hook up a snow machinevand build it back up.

[@asymptoticsingularity9281]

How dare you!

[@FMejiaLeonJODIDO]

WOWOWOWOWW

[@unohoo09]

Tragic, how these glaciers are an extremely protected feature of this park, yet the one thing that it cannot be protected from is humanity.

[@unohoo09]

@Paul Simonson you’re replying to comments all over this comment section. what are you so desperate to prove?

[@M3RXxKILLZYT]

Mrs Fabryyyyy

[@afiwubh4go9aiosugb]

And to think, If these glaciers didn't melt, We couldn't have these beautiful valleys, If those glaciers were to melt this century, People would be freaking out, This shows that Nature changes, Glaciers come and go, We can't prevent it, I wonder what Mt Lyell would look like when the glacier goes away, Who knows, Only time will tell, A very slow Unwrapping of our gift by mother nature :)

[@PeterOekvist]

Well said.

[@squireltag1000]

You wax philosophy, but unfortunately it's a bit too much of an apathetic extesitentional view of the world. A shame because I agree the natural world does change and there's beauty in that.

[@coaroas9243]

I agree with most people here. Why do they have to merge a political agenda with science! Just enjoy the geology and beauty of these high mountains for what they are. Too many people want things to stay the way they were when they or their parents were born! The world changes! Who do we blame for the end of the ice age? Those Wooly Mammoths and too much methane coming from them?

[@fattmouth7715]

I was just wondering do you park rangers really believe that Yosemite is millions of years old?

[@fattmouth7715]

Kind of like a mountain lake. We call these things glaciers but it's really just a big piece of ice, high in the mountain. Will it melt?Maybe. Is this the big sign for global warming? Doubtful. Open your eyes people. Look at the latitude where Yosemite is located. Water freezes and melts. It's a cycle you know😎

[@jannatbagdouri7894]

where is Yosemite???

[@joeyksnowboards]

California, look it up

[@ABC-uy4fw]

In the sierra Nevada mountains of California. This glacier is about 13,000 above seat level. The biggest glacier in California is Whitnet glacier in northen California. At Mount Shasta Volcano.

[@jannatbagdouri7894]

@@ABC-uy4fw ok thanks

[@jannatbagdouri7894]

i used to live in california

[@PeterOekvist]

You talk about how the landscape was formed by ice under the ice age, and then says that mankind is responsible for the glaciers disapearance... Thought political "science" were extinct by now.

[@jackiefb1]

these people are dangerous - talking about managing the glacier as if nature can be managed. He seems heart broken that in a few decades this block of ice will have melted. Life finds a way to continue to exist whether the temps are gradually warming or not. You have to realize that there was a time when palm trees were found in the arctic. The climate is always changing from ice age to warming trends and then back to ice ages. Luckily we have come a long way and can find ways to adapt to a naturally changing climate/world.

[@atomicpotato111]

You don't seem to understand that our climate is changing because of our actions. The atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than it has had in a long time, if ever. There are other more dangerous greenhouse gases as well. Nature can very much be managed.

[@jackiefb1]

@@atomicpotato111 I disagree that the climate can be managed -at least not on large enough scale to make a difference.

[@atomicpotato111]

@@jackiefb1 The climate can definitely be managed in a variety of ways, but one of the easiest would probably be extracting or releasing greenhouses gases from/into the atmosphere in order to cool down or heat up the Earth. Although, it generally takes long periods of time, and we've had plenty of it.

[@lifechat1304]

@@jackiefb1 ur dum

[@jackiefb1]

@@lifechat1304 no i am just not brainwashed