Quoting from this site:
The total loss of ice masses ringing Africa’s three highest peaks, projected by scientists to happen sometime in the next two to five decades, fits a global pattern playing out in South America’s Andes Mountains, in Europe’s Alps, in the Himalayas and beyond.
Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. This is “essentially a response to post-1970 global warming,” they said.
 Yet there’s this idiot, blaming “alarmist” behavior regarding global warming on 9/11:
As a result, our anxiety has extended into ever-expanding territory. The terrorist nightmare scenario has, for example, been recycled in other areas, such as the environment. If you look at the discussion on global warming, it often has the same structure to it.
What 9/11 has done is normalised the idea that you do things just because you think there might be a problem rather than because you believe that there is a problem. (from here. )
There’s this:
Ice ages come and go over millennia, and for the past 8,000 years, the gradual end of the last ice age has seen a natural increase in worldwide temperatures, all scientists agree. Skeptics have expressed doubt that industrial activity is to blame for world’s rapidly rising temperatures.
But records show that for the past 50 years or so, the warming trend has sped up — due, researchers said, to the atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases produced by everything industrial, from power plants burning fossil fuels to gas-guzzling cars — and the effects are clear.
“We were stunned by the similarities between the observations that have been recorded at sea worldwide and the models that climatologists made,” said Tim Barnett of the University of California’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “The debate is over, at least for rational people. And for those who insist that the uncertainties remain too great, their argument is no longer tenable. We’ve nailed it.” (from here )
Yet from the same story:
“Our position has been the same for a long time,” said Bill Holbrook, spokesman for the White House Council on Environmental Quality. “The science of global climate change is uncertain.”
Uncertain? Ya think? Does that mean we don’t do a damn thing till we know absolutely everything about this planet? Exactly how long will that take?Â
Buy a flippin’ CLUE, people. This is real. More real than WMDs in Iraq, more important than Britney Spears’ marriage, and more urgent than Who Will Win the Next American Idol?
Time to DO SOMETHING. Try going here and look at the evidence for yourself. Use the old detective saw, Follow the Money. What do these people have to gain by trying to make global warming a top priority?
What does the Shrub and Dick Cheney and their lot (oil men, all) have to lose if we actually pay attention to what we’re doing to our planet?
Seems pretty plain where the money’s going to ME.