From: "Maryetta Campbell" <Maryetta.C@Earthlink.net>:
Jim Muth wrote:
After watching one manmade-global-warming-doomsday program after another on Sunday, I am fast becoming convinced that the whole warming thing is more politics than fact.
Then you should read some of the statistics on "Glacier Melting Rate", or watch some better shows.
Glaciers are shrinking not only in area but also in thickness. Some are losing as much ice in one week as they used to surrender in a whole year. And some are no longer there at all, because they have completely melted over the past few decades, even though they had been around for hundreds/thousands of years.
The glaciers in the Himalayas are receding quicker than those in other parts of the world and could disappear altogether by 2035. The Himalayan rivers support a _VERY_ large portion of humanity. The rate of retreat for the Gangotri glacier, which feeds the River Ganges (India's holiest river), over the last three decades was more than three times the rate during the preceding 200 years.
Someone in Switzerland was promoting the concept of spreading a giant reflective blanket over their glaciers. I wonder what became of that. _______ Carbon Capture: in most cases, making Earth suitable for dinosaurs by burning their remains even faster; what goes around comes around.