[7] The study concluded that though there has been a two to three degree Celsius temperature rise in the region, there has also been a corresponding increase in the amount of snowfall.

Over the past 50 years, the glacier has actually expanded 30 percent, which is the opposite of what is being observed in most areas of the world.

During most of the calving glacier cycle, the slow advances and relatively rapid retreats are not very sensitive to climate.

For example, the calving glaciers that are currently growing and advancing in the face of global warming, were retreating throughout the little ice age.

Calving glaciers become sensitive to climate only late in the advancing phase, when the mass flux out of the accumulation area approaches the mass lost by melting in the ablation area and losses due to calving can no longer be replaced.