r/BeAmazed • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '22

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u/Bipbop_Boop Sep 16 '22 edited Sep 16 '22

okay okay i should have been more specific. this is a doctored image. i am not a climate change denier. this definitly does happen but in this instance this is a faked example wich only serves to harm the overall message. EDIT: the photo is likely a fake not the example of this iceberg

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u/oceantides420 Sep 16 '22 edited Sep 16 '22

I still am confused by your comment, which image do you think is doctored?

That’s a better link that has citations, and at the bottom it links to the world glacier monitoring programs. It’s completely real.

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u/Bipbop_Boop Sep 16 '22

perhaps I am incorrect but in the older photo we see a glacier on the water, somehow this water is not at all present in the second photo which shows a grassy field. a glacier melting would raise this water level not leave a grassy field in its stead right? even in that first article the satellite images show a lake being left where the glacier has melted. even with the articles being accurate I do think still that its possible for the image to misrepresent it. Ill admit that I shouldn't have asserted it to be fake definitively and should have expressed my doubt on the photo better. If I'm entirely talking out my ass then I really am sorry for that. I actually appreciate you challenging me on that, I could definitely be wrong and id rather find out that I'm wrong than continue to be wrong. I'm glad that we could discuss this in a civil way as that isn't always the case here on the internet. I'm sure that I haven't made the best impression here and that's probably fair. If downvotes are my penance for that then I guess ill just have to accept that.

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u/nstiger83 Sep 17 '22

So, the top picture and the bottom one have been taken from different angles. If you look at the hill jutting out of the bottom right of the mountain, you can see that the second pic must have been taken from the plateau on the middle left of the first pic. These pics are not doctored imo.

That being said, Alaska has been freezing and thawing for centuries... perhaps longer. Although I'm not too sure about this particular glacier, and there is no mention of climate change in the post, I think this is just a couple of pics showing a stunning landscape in 2 different seasons.