Alaska's majestic melting glaciers

[run2Jesus]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24331919/

[run2Jesus]

They’re large, rock-hard and grand spectacles — but Alaska’s great glaciers are in grave danger. The glacier recession rate accelerates every year, losing an average of 20 inches — almost twice the rate of loss seen in the 1980s and 1990s. Weekend TODAY’s Lester Holt joined acclaimed scientist Dr. Doug Causey, professor of biology at the University of Alaska Anchorage, for a close look at Alaska’s great natural wonders. They visited Spencer Glacier, which is now breaking off and calving due to rapid melting. While calving is normal for glaciers, the melting has been accelerated by climate change.

“This is truly one of nature's most magnificent shows and one not to be missed,” Lester said of his mission to Anchorage, Alaska. “Scientists say it's a show ending a lot sooner than they ever imagined.”

Sensitive to climate change, glaciers heavily depend on their climate conditions — and changes in temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, humidity, and wind speed could leave serious effects. Many scientists believe that global warming is to blame for the glaciers’ abnormal melting and retreating, contributing to sea level rise and placing communities that rely on glaciers for water at risk. Although Alaska’s many glaciers are currently vast and plentiful, they’re at risk of disappearing within
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[MrMannn]

By 1995, 85% of all earth's creatures will be extinct!
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/010580.html
To celebrate Earth Day, The Washington Policy Center has gone all retro on the subject by taking a flashback to 1970. Get your love beads and Jefferson Airplane albums out.


"By 1985...air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth by one half" - Life magazine, January 1970

...civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind," biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.

By 1995, "...somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.

Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor "...the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born," Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.

The world will be "...eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age," Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation," biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.

Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deteriorations and possible extinction," The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970.

By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half..." Life magazine, January 1970.

Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make," Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation," Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.

By the year 2000...the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine," Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970."

Far out man.

[icebear]

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[Anddra]

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Love your smilies, Icebear. :thumb

[twelvesmaster]

What would be so bad about an ice"less" age? :idunno

[run2Jesus]

The glacier recession rate accelerates every year, losing an average of 20 inches — almost twice the rate of loss seen in the 1980s and 1990s. Well, it sounds real to me.:thinking

[MrMannn]

Well, it sounds real to me.:thinking

Sometimes glaciers recede, sometimes they advance. stuff like this happens.
In other parts of the world they are advancing. So one panicky story isn't going to sway me--especially after the polar bear hoax. You remember Al Gore's lie? The one where the polar ice cap was melting and the polar bears were drowning because no ice flows were left to climb up on? It was a sham, a lie. No polar bears were harmed in the making of that Global Warming propaganda piece.

I'm too old a bunny to get excited over sensational stories like this. Seen it all fail before.

[icebear]

Love your smilies, Icebear. :thumb
thanks! i enjoy collecting them... i have somewhere around 300 really cool ones- not just plain smile or wink....

i just wish i knew how to make my own from scratch!

[run2Jesus]

Sometimes glaciers recede, sometimes they advance. stuff like this happens.
In other parts of the world they are advancing. So one panicky story isn't going to sway me--especially after the polar bear hoax. You remember Al Gore's lie? The one where the polar ice cap was melting and the polar bears were drowning because no ice flows were left to climb up on? It was a sham, a lie. No polar bears were harmed in the making of that Global Warming propaganda piece.

I'm too old a bunny to get excited over sensational stories like this. Seen it all fail before.

I don't get upset by it all. I completely trust God to take care of us just like He always has and always will. I do see in our own area the affects of pollution on the environment. The smog is actually pitting the new paint on people's cars and new painted metal roofs. The view here in the Smokies gets worse and worse every year. The locals say they grew up with many more snow falls than we currently have each winter. We've lived here for going on 13 years and truly the winters have gotten milder and milder. In fact we didn't get but one decent snow fall all winter. So, all in all, I don't figure out how this has anything to do with politics. We are not being good stewards of the Earth God provided for us. Now we're suffering the consequences. But, to me, it is one more sign of the end times. Even the earth groans....