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10 places to visit before they vanish
10 places to visit before they vanish
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apomeister
Sep 17 2012 at 4:09 PM
Beautiful places. If you plan to visit there, consider visiting apocalypse market before :)
jwebbw
Jul 23 2012 at 11:24 AM
......the sky is falling, the sky is falling !!....the climate is changing, the climate is changing....yes, that's what the climate does, it changes,....gmab....get used to it... the earth is a dynamic place, it takes 365 days while traveling at the speed of 69,000 mph to go around the sun....things change and come and go...get used to it...its very disturbing to know that a green scientist whose age is, say 60years old is an expert about the climate of a 4.54 billion year old earth....gmab....can
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anyone say "research grant" and sell out.....
Norman G
Jul 23 2012 at 8:02 PM
Yeah sure. Just because we drive gas guzzling SUV's in mass numbers that heat the atmosphere abundantly using 3 times the gas a mid sized car would, doesn't mean that we have anything to do with it.
So what if hundreds of species of wild-life have disappeared due to our pollution of rivers with insecticide poison and clogging of the oceans with billions of tons of plastic and sewerage ? Why would we blame ourselves?
Okay So we spilled a few trillion barrels of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico and
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Shrimp down their are being born without eyes. We shouldn't worry. The Fishermen always cut off the heads before sale and we don't have to look directly at a oil-mutated form of food we are consuming. Better yet, it eliminates the need to think about the other 5 hidden mutations that occur when one mutation is visible.
Perhaps the Nuclear Power Industry had a little accident in Japan a while back and the kids in Tokyo 150 miles away were having radioactivity show up in their urine but Hey! accidents happen. Okay okay so the Albacore Tuna that were feeding off of the coast are now contaminated and we are consuming them.
Not to worry. Our bought out regulators have told us that is good to eat them.
I believe them don't you?
The thing is, that we the human race, especially US people are totally exempt from any responsibility or blame for anything going on. Because you see what will happen is that when our children being raised now are all suffocating down
here on Earth at the last moment Winged Angels will show up and they will have a big rocket ship maybe to transport the people off. Wait! Maybe they will have Magic Wands that turns everything pure again. That's probably what will happen.
horacenick
Jul 19 2012 at 2:00 PM
Any nice place in south pacific would possibly vanish. Think Maldives?
Kristin
Jun 24 2012 at 11:47 AM
Last summer, we went to see the ice caves in Austria (near Salzburg). Our B&B owner suggested it as they might not be around the next time we went back to Austria. They are beautiful! Word of advice - bring gloves and a coat as it was pretty chilly in there. Gloves would have been much appreciated as I held the metal railing on the stairs (I think there were 700+ of them - very steep at times.) It is called Eisriesenwelt.
100 places to visit
Jan 27 2012 at 1:08 PM
Great list, maybe one day we may be able to add them to our list of 100 places to visit before you die.
Кризис
Jan 26 2012 at 9:32 AM
I just can not imagine with strong your blog greatly that warned me! Thank you “Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.” - Bill Gates
Tod
Dec 10 2010 at 12:20 PM
The pictures are beautiful, the statements of climate change as fact are hardly credible. There is no consensus as to the cause of global warming.
Fact: CO2 levels have been much higher than today on several ocassions in earth's past, and warmer temperatures prevailed without man's influence. The greatest possibility is that we in a warming cycle prior to an ice age. Most commenters on this website are more interested in blaming the U.S. for all of the worlds woes.
There is one area that is troubling;
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cutting down of the world's CO2 filters Tropical rain forests. Just in case all you American self loathers were hoping to blame that on the U.S. try looking at a map, we don't have any of those. Actually there are more trees in the U.S. now than there were in the 1700's.
This website suffers from "zeal without knowledge or wisdom"
Norman G
Jul 24 2012 at 5:48 AM
Sure there are more trees now, but the problem is that they're twigs in comparison to the Giants that were here up until the mid 1960's when the gutting of the forests kicked in full swing. Rush Limbaugh is the one who started that statement you quoted on number of trees in comparison.
It would take 50,000 new pine 10 ft high to equal the size of the once typical 8 ft diameter Douglas Fir. I remember in the 1960's seeing big logging trucks hauling only one log because they were so huge and heavy.
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The little rinky dink logs they haul now are a joke in comparison. Just like Right Wing Rush is joke.
You shouldn't go around parroting his corporate spew. He's getting paid for it you aren't. In fact you are paying for it but just don't know it yet.
Hiding your head in the sand and pretending that the 10 Hottest years on record have somehow not happened recently will not keep the Sun off your ..... but anyway its most likely too late now for mankind. NO that's not gloom and doom. In fact it might be the opposite. NO, I'm not self-loathing, but I do loath dim minds that refuse to ever wake up.
Common mankind will soon be living under-ground. The Rich will have their places above ground that can withstand the changes coming. It will go on for a short while after that and eventually the life forms deep in the caves of the earth will emerge to a new and beautiful world. Free of insecticides since there will be no one around to make or spray them.
The radioactivity existing in Chernobyl, Japan and the military sites now leaking it in places like Washington State will be no problem for them as the Cockroach has already shown. They can crawl over plutonium in a matter of months when subjected to it. So Hail your new coming King.... King Cockroach.
"The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, for time and chance befall them all."
Guest
Dec 05 2010 at 1:42 AM
If we'd all stop arguing over whether it is climate change or global warming and focus on the fact that we should no matter what, care for Earth. c'mon now. Respect the place WE ALL live. It seems like Earth is becoming more and more like living with that roommate you dont really care for, cuz they are sloppy. and no matter how hard you try to keep the house clean, that roommate just messes it up.
hmm seems like most of us humans need a slap of respect in the face. just sayin.
Ganesh
Oct 02 2010 at 1:23 AM
Wow, its really nice picture. it make me start to visit this place. i never think there are such a nice place. thank you very much for posting a great picture
cherry27
Apr 06 2010 at 11:42 AM
It's a nice photo. I feel like i want to go inside that picture and see whats down the other side.
crystal
Mar 11 2010 at 1:06 AM
How can someone not believe after seeing these pics? It's mind altering how fast the Earth is changing!
Lester
Feb 09 2010 at 3:01 AM
...that such an argument like "there's snow where you live, so climate change isn't real. ok." was used here. Anyway, my argument to that is the polar ice in the arctic is getting smaller, glaciers are retreating, perhaps due to global temperatures getting warmer, so climate change is real, ok.
CallyetheAmerican
Feb 04 2010 at 1:17 PM
all i know is becoming more energy and environmentally efficient and safe couldnt hurt the planet right? so whats wrong with cleaning up our act?
Ganeshj
Feb 04 2010 at 6:19 AM
very nice picture. thanks for sharing
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Harry
Feb 01 2010 at 11:59 PM
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article --http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-cl...
Harry
Feb 02 2010 at 12:00 AM
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article -- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111525/UN-cl...
Harry
Feb 01 2010 at 11:56 PM
Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen -- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece
Jan 26 2010 at 4:20 AM
I HAVE COME TO SAY 2 THINGS
1) GLOBAL WARMING CAUSED BY HUMANS HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN.
2) GLOBAL WARMING HAS INDEED BEEN PROVEN.
the cause of global warming is irrelevant to the point of this article, s*** will still go bye-bye. Stop arguing about semantics.
Dale
Jan 15 2010 at 2:36 PM
Regardless of who, or how many, believe that global warming is a real and measurable consequence of burning fossil fuels and farming cows (think methane output), there will always be those who think that man's overuse of the planet carries with it no consequence at all. The oceanic overfishing is a myth, GMO grains and seeds are not harmful to the ecosystem, carbon dioxide is not worth our attention, etc., etc.
Tell me, somebody, please! -- How do we get the deaf, dumb, and blind to see, hear, and
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realize that there is plenty of hard, analytical evidence that man is in a speeding cabriolet to a brick wall?
DON
Jul 17 2010 at 10:02 PM
So does this mean that the oil leak in the gulf is not true, and it will not harm the wildlife,fish, or human,, and the answer is not every body is deaf,dumb,and blind,,,,just the people who destroy everything they think is for them only..
Don Mei
Jan 14 2010 at 10:44 PM
Every item here will disappear because of global warming. Hmm. I'm still waiting on true SCIENTIFIC consensus that human activity is behind it.
bluey
Jul 14 2010 at 4:32 AM
Try spell checking if the big words like"the" are still tough for you...
trevor
Jan 29 2010 at 4:10 AM
what link is required here? you are looking for a link between global warming and man. whether caused by man or not global warming will change the current equilibrium.
Josie Mahony
Jan 23 2010 at 4:37 PM
I'm guessing if you haven't found "true scientific consensus" you haven't been looking very hard. They have proved it's to do with burning fossil fuels. You can measure the atmospheric composition of carbon in a number of different ways (tree ring data, bubbles in ice cores, etc). There are 2 main isotopes (have different numbers of neutrons) of carbon - C12 and C13. Now life processes like C12 better because it's smaller so they selectively use it to build organic matter, therefore fossil fuel deposits
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are made of C12 (made from ancient organisms). There has always had a pretty steady ratio between C12:C13 in the atmosphere. But since about 1850 this ratio has been in massive decline. This shows that whatever is going into the atmosphere is not a natural process or ratio would be constant, but due to the C12 rich fossil fuels we pump into the atmosphere. Look it up if you want. And there are hundreds of studies that have spent years and thousands of dollars researching this. What are you basing your opinion on? The scientific community does believe in global warming and has plenty of evidence to back it up, have a look at the studies before you dismiss them.
bluey
Jul 14 2010 at 4:39 AM
You call the IPCC morons and then you post a link where the IPCC is quoted as discrediting Global Warming ???
Maybe you better allow the grown ups to talk now and go play with your ATV. Hopefully you'll run it into a tree and damage your brain again...
bluey
Jul 14 2010 at 4:31 AM
You ignorant, imbecile ! This ridiculous, right wing blog is hardly a good counter argument to the excellent comments supporting Global warming.
Lea
Feb 01 2010 at 3:33 PM
As Ben suggests, it is true that throughout the ancient history of the planet that it has experienced periods of warming and cooling; I do not dispute this. However, with refernec to the last time this occured....there wasn't 6 BILLION people living on the planet. So regardless of time, geography or socioeconomics...people's health WILL suffer greatly and likely irreversibly as a result of a warmer global temperature and the irresponsibility of the human race and our actions. Our current ideology
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of the "conquering or manipulation or nature" is simply an intergenerational crime of the worst (and preventable) kind.
Guest
Jan 15 2010 at 11:04 AM
If you paid attention, you would see it for yourself. But go on believing what you want instead of what TRUE SCIENTIFIC evidence is telling you. Dont' bother to look into it yourself, just keep reading your far right propaganda. It's what makes you what you are. A fool.
Jan 15 2010 at 12:18 PM
Since you write in BOLD, and repeat whatever big media tells you, he is the ignorant one. Sure.
Pay attention? To what? I've seen so much snow as I recall in the 70s!
You are the one talking about propaganda. Right.
Adam Hostetler
Jan 20 2010 at 1:52 PM
The quote unquote true scientific evidence is that the Earth has always gone into periods of cooling as well as periods of heating, it's natural and cyclical, they can tell from core samples which hold ancient atmosphere trapped in air pockets in the ice, etc. I'm fairly certain whatever your stance you should realize that no matter if humans are causing the Earth to melt, we should regardless hope to improve our air quality and stop pollution for the effects not only on ecological systems, flora,
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fauna, potentially our Earth as a whole, but the people breathing this stuff in. Look at the figures and the facts of people around coal mining towns and towns where the blow the caps off of mountains, it's horrid. In fact, look at china. All of you quit acting like goddamn children, and open your eyes instead of trying to slander each other just like the right wing left wing idiots want you to do. The government wants workers and nothing more, not free and independent people that can think for themselves. That terrifies them.
Morné
Jan 21 2010 at 10:34 AM
Nicely put Adam. I don't believe all the global warming propaganda, as much of it is distorted science, but can only applaud any effort made improve the environment or at least slow down the decay.
Dan Tobin
Jan 15 2010 at 12:18 PM
The far left has propaganda too, and it is essentially just as foolish.
truth boy
Jan 16 2010 at 12:10 PM
Look to China if you want to see unrestrained abuse of the environment. China generates dust clouds from agricultural abuses that reach the USA. Their rivers are little more than toxic sludge at this point and their culture is responsible for poaching throughout the world -tiger penis, bear gall bladders, white rhino horn. What do they care - their own citizens are abused, brainwashed and die by the 1000s every years from neglect, toxic living conditions and dangerous working environments. So, look
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to the poor East Asians for the source of many ecological meltdowns.
David
Jan 13 2010 at 6:33 AM
It's by the Flickr user "Stuck in Customs":
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3078802485/in/set-7215760350...
David
Jan 13 2010 at 6:30 AM
It says "Glacier National Park" for picture 2. To get a copy, click on "ALL SIZES" and then "Download the Large size" in Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/4192364102/
or
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seekingfocus/1843989988/
Sorry I can't find picture 1, but they should have credited the photographer, not just Flickr, in any case, as the photographs hold the rights and Flickr just hosts them.
alberto
Dec 31 2009 at 12:50 PM
The first photo and the second photo are from the same place--Glacier. How to get a copy--you're on your own for that. Happy new year--
alberto
Rev. Michael O'Kelly
Dec 30 2009 at 11:16 AM
How can I obtain a copy ofthe first picture which is a sunrise? And where
is it taken? Thanks
Momof2
Dec 29 2009 at 3:54 PM
...but sad to see these photos & to think that it may be destroyed...
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