UQx DENIAL101x 2.3.1.1 Shrinking Glaciers
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-05

Robert Way describes glaciers and the way they are changing globally.

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World Glacier Monitoring Service "Fluctuations of Glaciers" series. http://wgms.ch/products_fog/ Accessed online 05 April 2015 [Note: each of the entries comes with a link embedded where it says PDF]

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