Glacier meltdowns amid global warming
To study the impact of global warming, Bruce Molnia, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, decided to take contemporary photographs of Alaskan glaciers from the exact spot where photographers captured images around the turn of the century. The above photograph shows the bottom end, or calving terminus, of Muir Glacier in June 1899.
Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
As you all know, a nation is needed and missing : the USA.
California's environmental laws are tougher than what Kyoto requires, yet it's economy is doing pretty well, in fact Kyoto opens opportunities for tech oriented businesses. Since it's beyond oil / armament business, Bush probably can't even see it.
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" target="_newWindow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol</a>
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This website (which uses very convincing facts) says, "... it would take from 10,000 to 100,000 years for a Polar ice pack to respond to any warming happening now. For a big mountain glacier it would take about 1,000 to 10,000 years for responding to a present warming, while for small mountain glaciers it would take about a 100 to 1,000 years response to the change. Thus, the explanation for the present retreat of some glaciers is: they are responding to a natural warming that occurred, during the Medieval Warm period, in the 11th Century, or to an even warmer period that happened 6.000 years ago."
Stick to your computers and networking and don't listen to chicken little.
MHampton
I don't know about you, but i don't want to have to pay $100/gallon for gasoline twenty years down the line.
global warming in NOT happening is demonstrating a terminal
case of stupidity. And burning fossile fuesl is a major
conttributor. Other contributors include cow and termite farts.
Whatever, iglobal warming is happening, so get your head out
of the sand.... especially if you're on a beach near the current
sea level.
When without a doubt oil based types of energy have been proven to be quite inefficient, they are just easy to obtain and process and don't require the use of our brain to develop something better...
Weather changes everywhere everyday. We may not like some of the cycles but they are a fact of life and nature.
Certainly you don't think the radical climatic change can't be traced to man's pollution of the atmosphere?
Truth, be prepared to tell your kids why you did not.