41 years ...

Alsek on July 5, 1984.(Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.)

41 years, not even an eye-blink in the cosmic scheme of things but galactic
in terms of GW happening in real time on planet earth ...

"Along the coastal plain of southeastern Alaska, water is rapidly replacing ice," Lindsey Doermann, a science writer at the NASA Earth Observatory, wrote in the statement. "Glaciers in this area are thinning and retreating, with meltwater forming proglacial lakes off their fronts. In one of these growing watery expanses,
a new island has emerged."

A satellite photograph of Alsek Lake and the new island of Prow Knob as Alsek Glacier retreats.

Alaska's Prow Knob (the big island on the right of the lake) used to be surrounded by ice. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.)

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