Old Rocks
Diamond Member
If you can't see what's so upsetting, you're not paying attention. Thousands of communities worldwide depend on the fresh water from melting glaciers for their domestic use. Some countries depend on the melting water from glaciers for their production of electricity. Agriculture in many nations depends primarily on melting glacier water that flows in their rivers. All this melting water is constantly replaced by fresh snow that compresses into ice over time and will subsequently melt into water. This cycle goes on and on maintaining a perfect balance in the generation of fresh water and size of the glacier.Stating the obvious seems lost on these guys. They seem completely unable to grasp the fact that the ice has been melting back for 14,000 years now. It has melted back damned near 2,000 miles. For the life of me, I can't see what is upsetting, or surprising about the fact that a trend that is now 14,000 years old is continuing.
Ahhhhhh yes, the infamous Himalayan glacier report....I guess you didn't get the memo? It turns out they were, well, let'sbe charitible, less then honest with their reporting (yes sunshine, that's correct, Pechauri willfully lied about the report) it seems those glaciers are going to be around for a few thousand years more then they were originally saying.
They also neglected to tell people that many glaciers were in fact ADVANCING.
If this is the best you've got you'd best tuck tail and run, you're about three years behind the curve.
Real stupid of you to post such an obvious lie concerning the Himalyan glaciers.
Asia's Vanishing Glaciers (Complete) | Asia Society
USGS Professional Paper 1386-F: Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World -- Asia
But then we all know that Walleyes claims to be so much more knowledgeable than the USGS.
By the way, dumb ass, I was around during the paradigm change of plate tectonics, and it was the working scientists that drove that change, not useless drones like you. People in the background like Dr. Allen of Portland State University, and Dr. Tom Thayer of the USGS. Met them both on the Eastern Oregon leg of an International Conferance on Ophiolites. An outdoor hands on conferance with presentations at night.
I find it interesting that you constantly denigrate real working scientists while presenting lies concerning the science you claim to have a degree in.