The wildfire smoke has been around a lot longer this summer and autumn, defiantly longer than anyone anticipated. Some might wonder what effect the smoke – and, more importantly, the ash — might have in terms of the long view of geologic history in the Pacific Northwest.
As it turns out, while the daily effects are pretty harmful to anyone forced to breathe the air outside, the effects it has on Cascade glaciers are even worse and much longer lasting.
Andrew Fountain, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus at Portland State University and a glaciologist who’s studied mountain ice in the Pacific Northwest for more than 40 years. Fountain says
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