Katie Couric's Notebook: Polar Melting
(Steve Romaine)
At the North Pole, new satellite photos show Arctic ice is melting so fast, many scientists now predict it will be gone within 30 years. Some researchers think it could disappear in just six.
At the South Pole, an ice shelf the size of Connecticut is in danger of melting because the ice bridge that held it in place has shattered. It's one of ten ice shelves that have shrunk or collapsed in the past 50 years. Some were 10,000 years old.
Polar ice works as the earth's air conditioner. Without it, there could be a snowball effect with temperatures rising even faster.
Governments all around the world have to take the lead in solving this crisis, but each of us has to do our part to reduce greenhouse gasses. If we don't all take bold action -- and take it soon -- we will all find ourselves on very thin ice. If we're lucky.
That's a page from my notebook.
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
I'm sure not an expert like the others that have left a comment, my late mother wouldn't have let me leave a negative comment....
Up bringing is what she called it.........
--"We have to try as hard as we can to change from fossil fuel consumption because linkage between carbon fossil fuels and CO2 caused climate change is very clear."
But reality forced you to drop the term "global warming" in favor of "climate change." Of course the climate is changing; it's called N-A-T-U-R-E.
--"The deniers have to prove the theory wrong."
Since when do opponents of a theory have to prove it wrong? It is incumbent upon the proponents of the theory to support it with factual, scientific data that can be replicated. If they can't, then it remains just a guess. As such, we should not make policy based on things that are truly out of our control.
--"Why are all the glaciers everywhere disappearing?"
It's Nature's way of giving moonbats something to do with their free time (wringing their hands and protesting) instead of taking endless bong hits and gambling away their rent money.
We have to try as hard as we can to change from fossil fuel consumption because linkage between carbon fossil fuels and CO2 caused climate change is very clear. The deniers have to prove the theory wrong. Why are all the glaciers everywhere disappearing? Glaciologists who have dug ice corps in Antarctica, back to many thousands of years ago, show that there has been dramatic CO2 increases back to 150 years ago. This corresponds to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and the combustion of coal for the steam age. But the deniers will not believe that climate is changing until all the ice melts on the poles.
If "Mother Nature" decides it's time for the polar bears to go, shouldn't we respect her "deity". How can we mere mortals thwart the omnipotence of "The Goddess" Gaia? (Unless she's just another fraudulent incarnation of Satan).
Since scientists cannot determine what caused previous ice ages to start, and then later stop, why do they have the gall to blame mankind now?
Most all computer models used by the doomsayers do not factor in the role of rainfall (which has an obvious balancing effect across the entire planet). Besides, warmer temperatures would create longer growing seasons and more crop production worldwide.
It's pantheistic snake oil being foisted on the pathetically ignorant.