Didn't the same thing happen at Glacier National Park? In the 90s the park put up signs saying how fast the glaciers were melting and would be gone or so much smaller in the next decade or so, but quietly removed them when they didn't shrink.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-2020-trnd/index.html
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