Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012'

Times On Line ^ | February 16, 2007 | Mark Henderson

[Thermalseeker]

The world cannot change at all forever now, we must lock it in to exactly what it is and then admit that any changes are caused by soccer moms and their SUV's.

Yep. If you look at most Liberal positions they use the "static" model to prove why everybody besides them is wrong. They do it with economic issues, social issues, you name it. It is the underlying folly of virtually every argument they make. I can't for the life of me figure out why the 'Pubbies have such a hard time debating Liberals. It should be a logical slam dunk......

[xcamel]

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[Fintan]

Maybe if Greenpeace surrounded the glacier with boats, it won't melt.

[lesko]

So the United States is responsible for what happens climatologically in Peru?

[Yogafist]

Dang! I am going to have to change my vacation plans for 2013.

[Abathar]

Why? Under the thing is probably some ancient city made from gold, the Incans probably had some temple there where they prayed for warmer weather....

[COBOL2Java]

Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012'

Al's working as fast as he can!

[milwguy]

Good point!

[millerph]

...the right and left coasts of the U.S. go underwater. That would "kill" the democrat base....

Thanks for those encouraging words! It explains why the libs are so stirred up over global warming. Although I don't believe the global warming nonsense, this makes me want to drive my SUV all weekend.

The best rebuttal I've heard against man causing global warming was from the old liberal guy on Fox's Saturday morning round-table. When asked his thoughts on global warming he said dinosaur flatulence. With a puzzled look they asked what he meant. He said since man wasn't that's the only thing I can come up with that caused the last one.

[MontanaMatt]

I remember reading a newspaper article on global warming about twenty-five years ago. I was excited to think that here in Montana it would be warmer!

I for one have no regrets over melting ice!

[AaronInCarolina]

From the 1975 Newseek article posted above, quoting from a National Academy of Science report:

“Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

What happened to that type of honesty from our scientists?

[AaronInCarolina]

.. Good .. I always hated that f&%%ing glacier anyway.

I know what you're saying! That particular glacier really p***ed me off once!

[Night Hides Not]

I have driven an SUV since the early 70's ~~~~~sob~~~~~~~~ I feel so guilty.

Ditter, I've been waiting for you to fess up. Your carbon footprint's probably responsible for the ozone hole. ;^)

[redangus]

I don't know, but Greenland is getting icier and the glaciers in the western US are getting bigger.

[Eva]

Yes, they think that we are that stupid. Here's something from Opinion Journal that exposes the fallacy of the science on global warming as concerns Antarctia:

An Ohio State University press release, meanwhile, says that temperatures in Antarctica during the late 20th century "did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models":

It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.

But David Bromwich, a professor of atmospheric sciences at OSU, "said the disagreement between climate model predictions and the snowfall and temperature records doesn't necessarily mean that the models are wrong." The important thing is that they work in theory, not in practice.

[Porterville]

Great news for citrus and avocados.... awesome simply awesome a 12 month growing season for citrus...

[chinche]

It is an unusually cold day where I am now. Snow in the foothills surrounding the city. Nothing strange to you in the North, but in Santiago Chile! It is suppose to be like a California August. Go to www.emol.com and see a photo of folks in the snow in the hills. What have we done to Gaia to offend her?

[Kellis91789]

Absolutely ! "Lynch all soccer moms !"

[Kellis91789]

Or suppose the UN had insisted in 1979 that all countries band together to cover glaciers with soot to make them melt ?

Do you suppose they'd have taken the blame 30 years later for rising sea levels ?

Hey, maybe they did, and they are just trying to scapegoat CO2 for the melting.

[Kellis91789]

The United States is responsible for anything that goes wrong in the entire world. Didn't you get the memo ?

That's why I've always favored taking over. If we're going to get the blame, we may as well be in charge.