This article states that an avalanche may help prove that climate change is real. Scientists believe that the cause of the avalanche was due to meltwater at the base of the glacier. The scientists had based their hypotheisis off of a satillite photos taken a few years apart. One of the scientist said "[G]iven that the average temperature at the nearest weather station has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) over the last 50 years, it makes sense that snow and ice are melting and the resulting water is seeping down beneath the glacier,". Tibbets glaciers have been stable so far, so they had assumed that the meltwater might have been from additional snowfall in the past months.
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