Researchers Say Glaciers Growing Thanks To Global Warming

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(Fox News) - Scientists say glaciers at the North Pole and in other areas are melting. However, the glaciers on California's Mount Shasta are actually getting bigger, but experts say that growth is not despite global warming but because of it.

Researchers at the University of California say that as the Pacific Ocean warms, more moisture goes into the air and then falls as snow on the mountain. That snow is enough to offset any rise in temperature. They have found that the three smallest of Shasta's glaciers are now more than twice the length they were in 1950.

Slawek Tulaczyk, a professor who studied the phenomenon, says the glaciers "seem to be benefiting from the warming ocean."