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To: DB; neverdem; SunkenCiv; All

“Oh, the pain”

If you have read the first link in Comment #1, you will have seen the potential for very large pain. The article points out that Kilimenjaro is a poor example, but that glacial melting and disappearance is a world wide phenomena. It points out that the “stans”, China, and India are all very dependent on glacial meltwater. You think we have trouble in Pakistan now, guess what happens when they no longer have river water. The article points out that loss of glaciers would cut the Ganges River flow by 2/3, affecting 1/2 BILLION people. You can laugh, but your children and grandchildren may pay the price of war, famine, etc. I have a son in Special Forces, so I think about this. You should too.


12 posted on 11/07/2009 8:28:45 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

Very bad plan to depend on melting glaciers for water for long term development.

There was a lot of melting in norther north America too. That’s long since been over.

What I laugh at is the idiot attitude that this snap shot in time is how things should be forever on. The world is a changing place non stop. The climate and has been changing since the beginning. The sun changes. Continents move. Ocean currents change.

You can’t stop the world. You adapt or die.


17 posted on 11/07/2009 4:38:53 PM PST by DB
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