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South American Glaciers Melting Quickly

Posted by michael on from the what-me-worry dept.

blike writes "The BBC is reporting that south american glaciers are melting so fast they've contributed 0.04mm per year to the global sea level since 1975. In the past 8 years, the glaciers have been melting especially rapidly; contributing nearly .1mm to the sea level every year. Another BBC Article further discusses the issue and examins how the changes affect the people living in these areas."

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  1. Re:It is because Bush blocked Kyoto! by Pentagram · · Score: 2, Informative

    OK, I'll bite.

    1) Wha...?

    2) The Kyoto Treaty does nothing. Treaties do nothing. Treaties are merely agreements by countries to do something or (as in this case) not do something. Under the Kyoto Treaty China may slightly increase its total CO2 output in a controlled manner whilst countries which are much worse polluters reduce theirs. To suggest that this move towards a sharing of the control of emissions is somehow worse than no treaty, i.e. complete unrestraint is either blatant trolling or stupidity so vast I can barely believe the AC has the intelligence to turn their computer on.

    3) There is plenty of evidence - for example the correlation of warming with CO2 concentration over the past few centuries. The theory has not been proved true beyond all reasonable doubt but there is a lack of other models to explain the data and you will find few climatologists who do not believe humans have a significant effect on climate change.

  2. Re:It is because Bush blocked Kyoto! by DAldredge · · Score: 3, Informative

    FROM: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/december97/kyoto _12-12.html

    But only 38 developed nations are mandated to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions; developing nations only have to set voluntary limits. That could doom U.S. ratification of the Kyoto protocol. The U.S. Senate, which will have to ratify the treaty, voted 95-0 to demand the participation of developing nations in any agreement while those countries have strongly resisted such efforts.

    FROM: http://www.globalwarming.org/politics/notreaty.htm

    The Kyoto treaty ran into serious trouble starting in 1997, even before it was struck, when the Senate signaled in a unanimous vote that it would not ratify any treaty that harms the U.S. economy and excludes developing nations.
    The treaty took a step closer to the scrap heap in December when a last-ditch attempt by the Clinton administration to work out details in negotiations at The Hague collapsed as a result of seemingly irreconcilable differences with the European Union.