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Major flood outburst from Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska not possible without climate change

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Major flood outburst from Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska not possible without climate change

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The gush of water that poured down the Mendenhall River near Juneau on August 4-6 did "decades worth" of erosion in a single weekend.

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Since I’m from there I’ve gotten several pictures of what happened down the mendenhall river that aren’t shown in the article:

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