The Washington Post, in its Tuesday “Health and Science” section, March 13, 2017, ran a leftwing article from the leftist “Live Science” website/publication entitled “White Blankets Can’t Stop Swiss Glacier’s Retreat”.
About attempts to deflect heat off of the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland which has been losing ice for years, blamed on “global warming”.
Key sentences: “Earth is getting warmer, and glaciers around the world are retreating and shrinking. As previously reported, humans appear to have caused 69% percent of glacial melting between 1991 and 2010 - and warming has only accelerated since then.”
...”The glacier has retreated 4,600 feet since 1856”.
And: “Nonetheless, this idea and others like it (i.e. the blankets reflecting sunlight/warmth away from glaciers) are becoming increasingly popular, as it grows clearer that the world will blow through the temperature-rise target that policy-makers have set for limiting the worst effects of climate change....”
Have you ever read such bullshit in your life? The US, last year, reduced its carbon emissions totals yet these idiots at Live Science claim, by innuendo, that we are responsible for “global warming and climate change”, all since 1856.
Nothing about the Red Chinese, India, Russia, volcanoes, primitive tribes with clearcutting and camps fires, forest fires, cats and dogs living together, etc.
These so-called science writers are like Linus and his blanket - it looks nice but doesn’t do a damned thing. So is this type of crappy, if not “false” or “fake” climate change story about glaciers.
After the winter we just had (it snowed a little in DC today and the Cherry Blossom trees left the Tidal Basin for Hawaii - only a few snowflakes for the environmental wacko snowflakes to see but this is APRIL, not February and the temperature outside is in the mid-30’s).
I’ve been a scientist (paleontology and archaeology). I like to deal in hard facts, not unsupported suppositions based on “models” that are totally unreliable and often biased (Michael somebody and his hockey stick model).
It will takes decades to shape out any real climate change or global warming, but right now, the evidence is not there. Regional changes - yes. It happens - called “weather” but don’t tell the leftists. They might have an orgasm over it, or they might just wet their panties.
Real scientists study facts, not “suppositions”. Sir Isaac Newton has been spinning so fast in his grave that any apple that falls near him is sent back onto the tree, if not in orbit.
As Sgt. Friday would say, “The facts, mam, just the facts”!
In China there are hundreds (thousands?) of coal mine fires. (Poor technology, no regard to safety, etc.) These fires, once started, are impossible to extinguish.
The CO2 from coal mine fires in China is more than all of the CO2 output of cars and trucks in the USA.
(Of course, that argument only works with those that believe that CO2 causes global warming.)