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| Tyrannical said: Glaciers are the biggest proof you need something is going on, they are melting at a rate not monitored before and only in the last 20 years but again the scientists and people who think it's not real are not questioning something is changing but the causes, it is a natural occurance or man made? We haven't montored glacial melting for very long, hence "at a rate not monitored before" Greenland was green around 1000 AD, not so green anymore. The world isn't turning abnormaly warm, it's just stopped being so abnormaly cold. |
Again, I'm not argueing Global Warming, that phrase is dead. It was my mistake to assume Global Warming was Climate Change. Climate change it happening currently but it's the causes that are the issue here.
And on glaciers: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0103/p07s02-sten.html
Key parts:
"Recent studies reveal that the Gangotri, which forms a mass of ice about 18 miles long, is retreating at a rate of more than 100 feet a year."
And
"While the Gangotri has been retreating since measurements began in 1842, the rate of retreat, which was around 62 feet per year between 1935 and 1971, has almost doubled."
It's always retreated, that's fine but why the increased rate in the lat 30 years?
There are many reasons why, i am a firm believer that the lack of a huge volcanic eruption is partly to blame as it usually has the effect of cooling the atmosphere as a whole (or so I've heard) and the last one we had was in 1991, Mount Pinatubo (category 6).
Hmm, pie.
