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.

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Should UN Ignore Asteroids For Tropical Glacier?

[chromozone]

Another article for the hysteria bin. Also in the news today was a warning that the UN needs to "act now!" to be ready for an asteroid strike:

"Beginning in the next few months, Schweickart's group will host a series of meetings to provide the UN with a 'decision process' for assessing and acting on the hazard posed by Apophis and other near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). A draft document ready for consideration by the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is expected by 2009."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11207-aste roid-threat-demands-response-experts-warn.html

When do people see through this racket?

Re:When will the denials stop?

[Orion Blastar]

Actually Penn and Teller debunked Global Warming and show how it was politically motivated and not scientifically motivated. Pen and Teller expose a lot of people with political degrees and politicians posing as scientists that support global warming. No PHDs in Science at all and they consider themselves as scientists. Al Gore, for example, has an undergraduate degree in government and no master's or PHD in anything, yet claims to be a scientist and is the major force behind pushing global warming and is regarded as an expert and will be getting a Nobel Peace prize for his work. Even if his work is pseudo-science or "Junk Science" and he is not certified to do the work in the first place. Al Gore uses private jets to fly all over the world to promote global warming, and they spread more CO2 in the air than they should be spreading. As Vice-President Al Gore did nothing to try and stop global warming and reduce CO2 emissions despite him saying in 1992 that global warming and CO2 emissions are a serious threat. Just like Gore promised to fix healthcare, end poverty, fix social security, stop the export of jobs overseas, and other promises he made with Clinton to be elected. Al Gore has a long record of lying and making up false information as well as making empty promises.

I'd link to the video in Google, it was there a few weeks ago, but Google removed it because it disproved global warming, but kept the other Pen and Teller videos, and Youtube did the same thing for the video. Proving that global warming is a scam and they are trying to cover it up. I am sure that Showtime might be showing repeats of it on their channels.

Re:When will the denials stop?

[ArcherB]

Maybe the thousands of climate scientists who say humans are pushing climate change over the edge somehow overlooked that research.

Maybe the thousands of climatologists that overlooked that research knew they would have lost their jobs if they brought it up. Notice how people here are literally ridiculing those that say that maybe global warming isn't man made. I've seen multiple posts that compare that idea to saying the world is flat. Trust me, the scientific community seems to be less open to ideas than ignorant slashdotters and those that finance those scientists are even less interested in new ideas.

For other examples of recent hysteria, look up:
Global Cooling
Ozone depletion/Skin cancer
SARS
Bird Flue
Smog
Acid Rain
Mad Cow disease
Overpopulation/Mass starvation
and the list goes on.

What will the world-ender be next week? Wake me up it is announced.

Re:Does it even matter if the globe is warming?

[LynnwoodRooster]

Global Warming isn't a problem unto itself... its a symptom of our abuse of this planet. It's only a poster-boy issue. Both sides need to stop debating - it doesn't matter whether global warming is happening or not. It's OBVIOUS the damage we're doing... that should be enough to prompt us to fix it.

But you miss the BIG PICTURE - MAN is evil, and more importantly CAPITALISM is unnatural and the USS are the Great Satan! Never mind that our environmental quality is improving as compared to 100 years ago, we have to go back to the Stone Age so that we will be equal with all the dictatorships around the world, and we can have what is truly desired - Worldwide Equality! Never mind that we'll all be miserable...