Top 7 disappearing glaciers
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Posted By Harry - Tue, Feb 02 2010 at 12:02 AM ESTUh oh! We F*@ked up!
UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article -- .... More
Posted By CommonMan - Fri, Jan 29 2010 at 2:43 PM ESTTop 7 disappearing glaciers
I find it astounding that the glaciers are receding. Have they always been doing this since the last ice age, or is this a relatively new phenomena? If they were not receding, that is expanding, should we be as worried, less worried or indifferent?
Posted By James - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 10:55 PM ESTGlacier alarm 'regrettable error': UN climate head...
Oops -UN climate change expert: there could be more errors in report
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6999051.ece
Posted By Mel Byrd - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 7:52 PM ESTGlaciers & Icecaps are back
We were in a solar maximum so the melt was expected as per a natural cycle. The deep solar minimum we are in now has more than compensated with NASA greatly dropping it's Hot projections for this sun cycle 24 (current peak 2013) & warning us that
sun cycle 25 will be very weak - more ice than we want. These pictures are terribly decieving. The Hubbard Glacier was advancing 7 feet per day by May 09. US Corp of Army Engs, CREEL, USGS are all monitoring with NASA providing LIDar measurements.... More
Posted By Anonymous - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 3:16 PM ESTGreed
It's hard to believe that there are actually people who would choose to see the Earth --- the home to all life as we know it, by the way --- perish right before their very eyes and know that the cause is based on their higher self-interests in things such as money, natural resources, power, and other things that drive materialistic destruction.
Equally alarming is the absurd reality that there are people (and the comments here that try to debunk global warming) who stoop to defend the.... More
Posted By Denny Anders - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 2:35 PM ESTFarewell Glaciers
Both pictures are of the Matterhorn you fool! The second picture was taken from the side of the mountain that faces Italy The first picture was taken from the Swiss side of the mountain.
Posted By Gary Walker - Tue, Feb 09 2010 at 10:29 AM ESTRe: Farewell Glaciers
Denny said;
"Both pictures are of the Matterhorn you fool! The second picture was taken from the side of the mountain that faces Italy The first picture was taken from the Swiss side of the mountain."
Soooo....the second picture was taken from the Italian side? That would be the side that faces the South, then? In the Northern hemisphere, what big yellow thing comes up in the morning and shines on (and warms) South facing objects, before dipping under the South Western horizon?.... More
Posted By William Smart - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 11:31 AM ESTNot the Matterhorn!
It should be obvious that the so-called pictures of the Matterhorn don't show the same mountain. One has to wonder what other cheating is going on.
Oh, look, in the news today a breaking dam of problems in the IPCC report of 2007. The whole section on glaciers (Himalayan) is laced with alarmist mendacity, at least 5 more lies exposed today.
Posted By Tom in Pasadena - Sat, Jan 23 2010 at 3:20 AM ESTThat's NOT the Matterhorn!!
OK, first we heard that the Himalayan glaciers would melt in 25 yrs. Wrong. Now you show "then and now" pix of the "Matterhorn." Except that the "now" pic is not the Matterhorn, as any idiot who's been to Disneyland (or looks at the 1960 pic) can see. What does that make you?
Posted By Stephan - Sun, Jan 24 2010 at 2:44 AM ESTDisney education?
Of course both of the pictures show the Matterhorn. They do not, however, show the same side - the first is the famous "Disney" view from Zermatt (about NE), the second is the view from the top of the Kleines Matterhorn (SE). That limits the usefulness of the images for comparing glaciers, or snow cover as does the fact that we do not know in which season the images were, taken. It does not, however, make this different mountains.
Posted By Mount kilimanjaro - Fri, Jan 22 2010 at 11:44 PM ESTconcern
I was aware of the facts that the glaciers of the world are fast melting.But I am amazed to know the rate of melting.The pictures are evident of this fact.
Mount kilimanjaro
Posted By pete mccullers - Fri, Jan 22 2010 at 8:45 PM ESTtop 7 disappearing glaciers
it seems to me from all i've read that glacier disappearance has more to do with increased sunspot activity than carbon emmissions. In this report some glacier erosion was happening in the 19th century. I read a report from NASA which said all the planets are experiencing global warming. Reports on sunspot activity parallels the rise in glacier decay. I realize that carbon emissions aren't helping either but great strides have been made in emission reduction also and if we keep striving to.... More
Posted By Stuart Thompson - Fri, Jan 22 2010 at 5:32 PM ESTFarewell Glaciers
It amazes me that people can deny any effects of global warming given the evidence we are presented with. I don't believe we can yet substantiate the claims of impending doom or disaster, however the observation of change is undeniable.
It is sad to watch these landmarks enter the history books and to wonder where we will be in another fifty years.
oops! We did it again!
Climate chief was told of false glacier claims before Copenhagen -- http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article7009081.ece