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...journey to U.S. West Coast ports may soon be interrupted at sea -by icebergs in the tanker shipping lanes. The source of these floating hazards is the Columbia Glacier, a 425-sq.-mi. mass of ice that ends less than seven miles from the tanker lanes for Port Valdez...
...mile-long glacier originates high in a watershed east of Valdez, where it is fed by massive snowfalls. From there, it flows inexorably down toward Columbia Bay, where it terminates on a shoal across the fjord in shallow water. Like all glaciers that end at the sea, Columbia continually "calves" or drops chunks of ice off its face as it moves forward. This process can speed up dramatically when changing climatic conditions cause a glacier to begin thinning out. This decrease in thickness can destroy a glacier's delicate equilibrium and radically increase calving in a process called "drastic...
...winter. A similar system, known to forecasters as a "blocking high," caused California's two-year drought. This winter the Canadian high has been spraying snow and cold in seemingly haphazard, unpredictable directions, plunging temperatures to the 20s in Atlanta and setting snowfall records in places like Valdez, Alaska, which has had more than 63 in. so far. Meteorologists frankly admit that they understand very little about "blocking highs"-except that this one will surely bring more cold and snow. Advises James O'Connor, acting chief of the National Meteorological Center: "Don't put your long Johns...
...Juan Valdez is a pseudonym for a member of the Latin American student community at Harvard who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals...
That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...