{"id":57792,"date":"2021-05-12T06:25:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57792"},"modified":"2021-05-12T06:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:25:30","slug":"how-the-big-melt-will-change-life-for-people-and-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57792","title":{"rendered":"How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature<\/a><\/h3>\n

As BC\u2019s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier has been home to First Nations for millennia.\u00a0Photo: Knight Inlet Lodge.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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[Editor\u2019s note: To read the first instalment of The Big Melt, a special Tyee series, go\u00a0here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

When William Glendale was 10-years-old, his logger father was away for work so much, he bought his son a boat and a .30-30 rifle. \u201cMy father told me, \u2018When your mom wants fish, go fishing. When she wants meat, go get her a deer.\u2019\u201d Sixty years later, no one knows Knight Inlet better than William Glendale \u2014 a Hereditary Chief with the Da\u2019naxda\u2019xw\/Awaetlala First Nation, whose traditional territory includes the upper portion of the inlet. (The Mamalilikulla and Tlowitsis First Nations have territories overlapping the inlet out towards Johnstone Strait.)<\/p>\n

Knight Inlet is the deep glacial fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier on B.C.\u2019s central coast. As long as the Klinaklini Glacier has existed, Glendale\u2019s forebearers have lived in its proximity.<\/p>\n

But their future is cast in shadow by research led by B.C. glaciologist Brian Menounos, a professor at University of Northern British Columbia and a Hakai Institute affiliate. As the\u00a0first story in this series explained<\/a>, their findings show that the last two decades have been disastrous for western North America\u2019s mountain glaciers, particularly for those on the south and central Coast Mountains, including the Klinaklini Glacier \u2014 the largest glacier in western North America south of the Alaskan border.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Menounos and his collaborators published research that revealed that glaciers across western North America are melting faster than previously assumed, and that melting had accelerated about four-fold in just the last decade.<\/p>\n

The 470-square-kilometre Klinaklini, like many glaciers of the south and central Coast Mountains, is expected to lose at least 70 per cent of its total ice by the end of the century, and as this happens, an ecosystem that has evolved in tandem with the glacier will be upended.<\/p>\n

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How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature As BC\u2019s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series. Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier has been home to First Nations for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[94,103,31215,4437,23884],"class_list":["post-57792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-christopher-pollon","tag-glacial-melt","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57793,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57792\/revisions\/57793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}