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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.


13 posted on 11/07/2009 8:28:48 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
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.

And what are we supposed to do about it besides preventing deforestation near glaciers? Show me the evidence that anthropogenic global warming has any validity as a plausible hypothesis, if you please. If you will check global cooling, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary.

16 posted on 11/07/2009 11:50:05 AM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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