
Which of the following is true?
A) 25% of glaciers in the European Alps have receded in the past 50 years.
B) Peyto Glacier has experienced significant loss of net mass balance in recent years.
C) 39% of global sea level rise is coming from melting Alaskan glaciers.
D) Mt.St.Helens and Mt.Shasta have seen 37% increases in glacial mass from 1983-2007.
E) the Columbia Ice Sheet is growing in size as its snowlines move lower in elevation.
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