Saturday, February 11, 2006
'...in 1,200 Years..'
Dawn strikes mountains rising above St. Marys Lake in Montana's Glacier National Park.
When the park was created in 1910 it had 150 glaciers. That number has since dwindled to 30, due to warming temperatures.
World is warmer than it has been for 1,200 years
Researchers analyzed tree rings, ice cores, fossils, and other "proxy climate records" and found that the present warming phase has lasted longer and affected a broader area than any other such period in the last 1,200 years.
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National Debt
On August 15, 1935, Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.