the view of Shasta from I-5 is AWESOME, as it just seems to spring out of thin air. Haven't been north of it in a few years, but sometimes I get to see a teeny tiny bit of the tip if I cross the valley from Chico
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Mt. Shasta Global Warming and found these articles, beware if you read any from our local weatherman who confuses global warming with global climate change
you might also want to try googling Mt Shasta I-5 and Mount Shasta I-5
http://dwb.sacbee.com/content/news/story/14317368p-15234887c.htmlBy David Whitney -- Bee Washington Bureau
Published 1:43 am PDT
Monday, September 04,2006
A growing glacier
Mount Shasta bucks global trend, and researchers cite warming phenomena
WASHINGTON -- Whitney Glacier on Mount Shasta is growing, and scientists think global warming in Northern California is the reason.
This is not the way global warming works in most parts of the world.
In the Arctic and the Antarctic, and all along the West Coast north of the California border, temperatures are rising and glaciers are melting. Nisqually Glacier on Mount Rainier on the northern end of the Cascades, for example, has retreated by nearly a mile in the past century and continues to shrink.
But Whitney Glacier, on the southern end of the Cascades? "It's still growing," said Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
According to an article last summer in California Wild, a journal of the California Academy of Sciences, Whitney Glacier is the only ice river in the world that is larger today than in 1890.
Tulaczyk and his team, who began studying the glacier in 2002 and now have expanded their work to the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada, link the advancing frozen mass to the unique way California is being affected by global warming.
While in the short term it means more snow, their findings also contain a dire forecast: High-altitude snowpack, a steady source of water for the state as the snow melts during the summer, is probably doomed.
Tulaczyk said he and his team reviewed records dating back five decades collected from monitoring stations that measure the snowpack and its moisture content.
By comparing those statistics against temperature trends, certain conclusions can be drawn. A key conclusion is that global warming is not just about rising temperatures, but about the capacity of warmer air to carry moisture.
As California's temperature rose by 1 degree Celsius over the past half-century, Tulaczyk said, the snowpack has moved higher up in the mountains. But because warmer air in the winter can carry more water, the amount of snow falling at the high peaks has grown.
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http://cbs13.com/seenon/Mount.Shasta.Global.2.485725.htmlMount Shasta Glaciers Defy Global Warming, Grow
by John Iander
MOUNT SHASTA (CBS13) ? The debate over global warming has taken a pretty odd twist in Northern California. Up on Mount Shasta, the glaciers are not behaving like you'd expect.
Big mountains often produce their own weather patterns. Mount Shasta, at 14,162 feet seems to have a mind of its own these days. Shasta has seven glaciers. The biggest is the one on the middle, Whitney Glacier. What has surprised scientists about the glacier is that if the theories about global warming are true, the glacier ought to be shrinking, but it's not.
"Unlike most areas around the world, these glaciers are advancing, they are growing. Thirty percent in the last fifty years," says scientist Erik White.
White and mountain climber Chris Carr are Shasta experts.
"Every year it's a little bit different. But the glacier changes dramatically, year to year," says Carr.
So why are the glaciers larger today than they were a century or more ago?
"Mount Shasta is right at the very northern end of areas influenced by El Nino and were at the southern end of areas affected by La Nina. So between the two we get to see the benefits of that which means more snow and rain in this area," says White.
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071102/NEWS/711020331