Al Gore

Glacier National Park will have lost its glaciers by about 2021.

“Within 15 years this will be the park formerly known as Glacier”

Said on

24 May 2006 · Film An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Source

Green Watch · Capital Research Center

Should come true

2021

How sure they sounded

this will be (no hedge)

Categories

Climate

Importance

2 of 5 · Regionally significant glacier loss in a US national park; symbolic of wider glacier retreat.

Outcome

Inaccurate

By the 2021 deadline the park still had glaciers: USGS counted 26 active glaciers in 2015, and a 2023 USGS study found many glaciers fragmenting but only one in the park gone entirely. A 2019 study projects the park may be glacier-free by about 2100.

Evidence:

• https://www.ecowatch.com/glacier-national-park-ice-melt-2402880839.html
• https://cdapress.com/news/2024/mar/14/study-glaciers-falling-to-pieces/
• https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?n=6525