Gulkana Glacier, here seen from Summit Lake off the Richardson Highway, is shrinking back into the mountains of the Alaska Range.
True, most of us won’t be here in 77 years either, but warmer air temperatures will probably erase those Alaska glaciers and a few dozen more — including an Anchorage water source named Eklutna Glacier — before then. Using supercomputers at UAF, they forecast the future of the world’s glaciers under a few different warming scenarios, each of which humanity is currently speeding past.
“Mendenhall Glacier may not disappear completely, but it will certainly retreat so much that it won´t be visible from the visitor center, even for the scenario,” Hock said.
Nooooo not the ice! 🥺
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