“It’s a very large glacier, it’s losing mass very rapidly, there’s no reason to suspect that will change any time in the near future.” - Christianson

"I’m not going to lie, it’s a gritty place when you are staring down at data and probabilities for how your favorite places in the world will change during your kid’s life span".

An article written by Nives Dolšak - professor in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and Aseem Prakash - founding director of the Center for Environmental Politics. "Climate change is a big, messy problem for which a specific individual or government cannot be held accountable (even though human actions are certainly to blame). Blaming climate change for flooding makes it easier to escape responsibility for not enforcing zoning laws or allowing development on flood plains. But this is not sound policy".