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World's Largest Tropical Glacier Vanishing
Socguy wrote with a link to a CBC article about the rapidly disappearing Peruvian glacier known as the Quelccaya ice cap. The world's largest tropical glacier was a hot topic this past Thursday at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, and a team of Ohio state scientists, produced the stunning news that Quelccaya and similar formations are melting at a rate of some 60 metres per year. While polar ice caps have commanded attention in the discussion of global warming to date, these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water.
I was standing on the elevated train platform in Chicago a little while back when it was at least -10F every day for nearly two weeks wondering why I haven't heard anything from these global warming idiots in awhile. If it's too hot in Peru go sit under a tree. There's still no evidence to say that global warming is even taking place (warming and cooling trends over the past hundreds of years, sunspots?) or if it is taking place that it will ultimately have bad consequences. Meanwhile I'm paying $800 a month in gas bills to heat a 2BR apt. And I don't drive a huge gas guzzling SUV, I get 28mph Also, fuck (the) Ohio State. Thank you.
The ice sheet in antarctica is growing larger. It's well documented. Yet the main stream media and science in general has kept this hush-hush.
I suspect that it's because evidence in antarctica contradicts much of what is happening in the arctic regions.
There are other parts of the world that are faced with increased cold.
Another issue that is rarely discussed and COMPLETELY misunderstood is the magnetic polar shift. We are entering a phase when the poles are shifting. Very soon, we will lose much of the protection offered by the earth from solar and cosmic energy. We don't hear about the effects of this, but I can't imagine that an increase in exposure would help cool the planet... it could only push global warming further along.
I still find it amazing that global cooling was the predominant theory until 1989. How could we change from global cooling to global warming in 15 years?
I suspect that it has more political motivation behind it than anything else. Al Gore and Bill Clinton, when they were in office, were not responsible for global warming. As soon as a conservative spoke up, conservatives were seen as the problem. Too bad Al Gore is flying around in Gulfstream jets, riding around in limousines, preaching and proseltyzing, yet living life as a hypocrite. He's worse than Jimmy Carter.
History will show that short bursts of solar activity are more likely to cause periodic global warming than any "green house gas" effect that Al Gore and his politico-scientists.
Quote from the article:
"The lower elevation tropical glaciers are going right now, no matter what we do we're going to lose the glaciers on [Mount] Kilimanjaro and we're going to lose the lower elevation glaciers in the Andes," said Thompson.
Too bad it has been proven already that the melting of the snows of Kilimanjaro is due to deforestation, not to any increase in global temperature. In fact, temperatures at the top of Kilimanjaro haven't changed at all over the years.
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16905
Global Warming has been happening since the end of the last ice age, has happened between every ice age, and would happen with or without the existence of mankind.
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