From Alaska, where the Army Corps of Engineers is tracking a “growing” problem . . . too much ice mass:

The Corp is involved because ‘when’ and ‘if’ the Hubbard Glacier eventually closes the Russell Fjord, the fjord will fill with fresh water, becoming a 30-mile-long lake creating a new 40,000-cubic-feet-per-second river system. This will have an extremely ‘negative’ economic impact on Yakutat and the surrounding regions. It’s possible that at the shocking rate of seven feet per day in its advancement, the Hubbard Glacier could close the fjord by later this summer, or even prior to that time, if the current rate of advancement speeds up, say to perhaps 10 or 12 feet per day.

Maybe this will come up in oral argument in (sigh) San Francisco next week on the fairly absurd — and yet ominously illustrative — Kivalina litigation.

Of course, all such inconveniently cold, hard facts are proof of nothing, but mere aberrations. It’s only proof when things melt or it’s warm, silly.