U.N. report: Urgent Action Needed On Sever Climate Change

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/17/spain.climate/index.html

This is really something else about these glaciers melting. They say that it's been happening for years but in the 1990's it began accelerating:

"You can literally sit there and watch it retreat," Thompson told a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

"As the Peruvian ice fields disappear, sources of irrigation and hydroelectric power will dry up," he said. Other consequences include a more rapid rise in sea levels, speeding the flooding or even destruction of low-lying islands and coastal areas.

"I expect to see absolutely no glaciers in the Swiss or European Alps by the end of the century," he added. "The huge valleys of the Himalayas will be completely deglaciated."

Glaciers are shrinking not only in area but also in thickness. In Alaska, they are losing an average of 6 feet (1.8 meters) of thickness a year, Anthony Arendt, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, reported last month in the journal Science. That's more than twice the annual rate observed from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/08/0821_020821_wireglaciers.html

crsschk wrote:
Another point of view ...

[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=20486&forum=48&3] Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’[/url]

There may be some truth to that I'm sure but I still believe there is a global warming problem.Sometimes I like to watch the Discovery channel and there are alot of problems like drought ect..I live in Florida and were having a drought problem. The lakes are drying up and you can compare by looking at the photographs of what it used to look like and how it is today and there is a huge difference. Those are just a few things that I am seeing.There is a town in Tenessee right now that has no water.

ccchhhrrriiisss wrote:
...and here is [url=http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=3751219&page=1]another point of view[/url] from some of the scientists who were part of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and were "collectively" quoted in Al Gore's [i]An Inconvenient Truth[/i]).

It seems that the debate is all but settled -- except in regards to science. The "environmentally conscious" politicians seem to be the only ones who feel that the "debate is over."

:-(

P.S. - The weather in Texas has been unseasonably mild all summer. We had record rainfall and much lower temperatures than normal. Parts of the Southern Hemisphere are [url=http://my.telegraph.co.uk/reasonmclucus/november_2007/al_gore_wrong_again.htm]experiencing record low temperatures[/url] too. According to some friends at NASA, this is merely reflective of a weather cycle -- and not global warming.

How do we know though if maybe the scientist do not have something to gain from this? Aren't we just grabbing articles again like Joyce Myers supposed toilet?

What about all of the lack of rain though like here in Florida, forest fires in California, more hurricanes and tornadoes causing so much more damage because of the elevated temperatures in the ocean? Here in Florida we lose crops every year because of the lack of a frost. Aren't those signs of global warming?