Old Rocks
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No, what I claim is enough initiative and intellect to use the instrument you just used for a meaningless insult to look up information that is published by real scientists.
So you admit you are not anything like a scientist eh rocky boy?
Then how can you distinguish between real science and sham fakery?
Answer - you can't, you just have taken, as an article of FAITH that the Earth is warming. And like any good religious fanatic you push your FAITH on others.
Others who happen to know far more science than you.
The last class I took in college was Eng. Geo. 470/570. And I worked for three years for the US Forest Service in Soils Engineering. Making near minimum wage salary. When the 1972 price spiral happened, went back to my tools as a millwright and tripled my wages.
How to determine what is sham and fakery? Easily. When some dumb bastard writes an article on the Nisqually Glacier and states that it is rapidly growing, I know that silly ass is lying. For the year that was done by one of the Canadian yahoos at the Canadian Free Press, I had visited that glacier for the third time in five years, and it had melted back a long way from my first visit. Therefore, that source is well into sham and fakery.
http://jisao.washington.edu/print/n... State'sShrinkingGlaciers_ GoingGoingGone.pdf
State's shrinking glaciers: Going ... going ...
gone?
By Warren Cornwall
Seattle Times staff reporter
MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK Like tiny doctors on the belly of
a sleeping giant, three National Park Service workers trudged up the middle
of the Nisqually Glacier, stepping over tiny creeks and peering down a
dizzying chute where water from the melting glacier wormed into the
300-foot-thick slab of ice.
Nearby, a tall plastic pole arced from the ice into the sky. Park scientist
Rebecca Doyle knelt at its base, whipped out a tape measure, and began
jotting down numbers.
The pole is 41 feet long. Six months ago, in April, it was totally buried in
snow and ice. On this recent sunny October day, so much snow had melted
that only a few inches of the pole remained buried.
"Wow, that's a lot," exclaimed Paul Kennard, a park service
geomorphologist, as he stood holding the pole.
Like Kennard and Doyle here on Mount Rainier, scientists on mountains all
over Washington, the most glacier-covered state in the Lower 48, are trying
to determine how glaciers are changing. What they are finding here and
elsewhere is worrisome: Many of them, such as the South Cascade Glacier
in the remote North Cascades, are shrinking quickly and some are on the
verge of disappearing.
Unlike people like yourself, I have actually walked where the glaciers are, in the Cascades and Rockies, and seen the retreat. And read the denial of that retreat from charlatans like Monkton.
And I have read the reports from geologists, paleo-climatoligists, and climatologists. People that are actually studying the problem, not denying and lying about it.