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Date Posted: 00:53:44 09/27/08 Sat
Author: Rick in Alaska
Subject: Re: Associated Press Article
In reply to: RadioRay 's message, "Re: Associated Press Article" on 09:54:41 09/26/08 Fri

Its true that popular media often tends to sensationalize. I think a healthy dose of objective skepticism is positive, its what separates science from religion. The vast majority of scientists themselves are highly skeptical and require persuasive evidence. Insisting everything is fine to justify one's lifestyle and industrial "progress" is something more akin to religion, in my opinion.

I, too, believe what my eyeballs tell me. The glaciers in my own backyard are receding rapidly, some by kilometers in a single summer...I've seen it with my own eyes. The few around here that are advancing are riding on a lubricant of warm meltwater. In Bolivia, where I was this spring, the glaciers in the Andes mountains that provide the water for drinking and agriculture for millions of people are receding just as rapidly. Further north from me, the US Coast Guard - those Chicken Littles -this summer established their first presence ever in Barrow, in anticipation of increased ship traffic in the arctic ocean due to disappearing sea ice. The Inuit and Yupik are wondering what to do as late fall storm waves, freed from the burden of pack ice, are pummeling the coasts and eroding their villages into the sea, while permafrost melts under their feet. Estimated cost to relocate one village of perhaps 100 souls? About $150 million or so, probably of your tax dollars.

Whose fault is it? Who cares? whether its a solar cycle, all the fossil hydrocarbons we've dug up and burned, or a combination, the worlds climate IS warming rapidly. Glaciers don't lie. Before its over we'll most likely get to enjoy the same climate that was around before all those fossil hydros were locked away in the swamps...thats assuming the ocean currents don't shut down from the sudden pulse of fresh melt water and plunge the northern hemisphere into another ice age. The difference between then and now is, humans won't have thousands of years to adapt and evolve. We will most likely experience a short, painful, famine and war-filled transition. The wealthy and connected will probably manage just fine...its a toss-up for the rest of us.

But hey, thats just my opinion. Enjoy your beer...

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