Modeled Climate Induced Glacier ChangeIn Glacier National Park 1850 2100
Over the past 129 years the glaciers of Glacier National Park, in Montana, have been slowly disappearing. ... 6 square kilometers of glaciers in 1850, but that number had shrunk to 7. ... In fact, since the establishment of the park in 1910, over 100 of the 150 glaciers have disappeared. ... In the years 1550 to 1850 there was a “Little Ice Age” in North America. ... 76oC in the Blackfoot-Jackson Glacier Basin by the year 2100. ... The mean summer temperature in the year 2100, therefore, is 2.