In pictures: How the world is changing

BBC ^ | Gary Braasch

[Armando Guerra]

I am not sure what the picture is, but I took it to show a retreating glacier. The only problem with a picture of a retreating glacier being offered as proof of man-made global warming is that the picture sequence could probably go back thousands of years and south thousands of miles to show glaciers retreating since the last ice age!

[Nathan Zachary]

No, the glacier is still there, look closely. It's just a different color. It's exactly the same.

[PatriotCJC]

The earth is a changing, but it has changed many times before. The thesis that it is man's fault cannot be proved. The colorado river dried up long before fossil fuels

[PatriotCJC]

Melted water is not a glacier. The glacier ends at the far right of the colored picture.

[jerri]

Come to think of it, that global warming is probably why I'm not as young as I used to be.

[kruelio]

They better not have taken any planes, trains, automobiles, snowmobiles, boats, etc. when they went to photograph those remote destinations or they would have contributed to global warming.

Mules and bipedal power should be our only transportation!

[Corin Stormhands]

Ummm. One word: Hurricanes!

I had to go look. That's Hatteras for cryin' outloud. Most likely after Alex hit last August.

Not to mention Isabel the year before...

[Billthedrill]

I've noticed how I have less hair now than I did in 1985. Global warming?

No, your brain is growing. It happens a lot. And, as a friend of mine keeps telling me, "Grass don't grow on a racetrack, boy!"

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

I live in Northern California (the Great State of Jefferson): Mt. Shasta is in my back yard, and currently the Glaciers on Mt Shasta are growing. As far as the pictures of Mt Hood, lighting, time of the year and drought conditions play a much bigger part in the snow level then global warming.

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[Proud2BeRight]

And the woolly mammoth no longer roams in my back yard because of the global warming. Were they driving their SUVs too much 20,000 years ago or just passing too much gas?

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Argentina's Upsala Glacier was once the biggest in South America, but it is now disappearing at a rate of 200 metres per year."

This may be a stupid question, but haven't the glaciers been gradually disappearing since the end of the ice age?

[Lekker 1]

Is global warming such a bad thing. Looks like some nice fishing areas have just been opened up.

That's been my point all along. There is an awful lot of land on this earth that could really use being warmed up a bit. Freezin' yer ass off is way overrated.

[Nathan Zachary]

In some places, glaciers appear to be retreating (they vary year to year according to the average snowfall) and in othr places they are growing tremendously. Greenland for example has glaciers that have grown over 200 feet thicker than from 1945, and is overall more snow covered than at the beginning of the last century.

[dead]

Global warming turns ugly frozen hellhole into the most beautiful place on earth

Going, going ... two photographs released by Greenpeace - top, taken in 1928
and bottom, January 2004, show the decrease in size of the Upsala Glacier in the
Patagonia region of Argentina. Greenpeace says it is dramatic evidence of the effects
of climate change. It said rising temperatures are causing glaciers in the Patagonia
area to melt at a rate of 42 cubic kilometres a year - faster than anywhere else on earth.

[CyberAnt]

It's because they figure the public is too dumb to figure it out.

[Oberon]

And the woolly mammoth no longer roams in my back yard because of the global warming.

Dang. What a hunting trip THAT would have been! Not sure how to drag him back to the truck, though...

[tumblindice]

Yikes, the sky is falling!
Britain prosecutes those using `fowling pieces' (old shotguns) to defend hearth & home from housebreakers, then when the crime rate in England `sky-rocketed'--they simply re-defined particular felonies, then crowed about 'jugging' homeowners. (Remember how the Clintons tried to characterize increased taxes as 'payroll premiums'?)
"When I use a word, it means exactly what I intend it to mean, and nothing more." Alice in BBC-land.
Or like Bellesile's print-fraud 'Arming America'(fun with figures) 'Global Warming'=junk science. M. Crichton is just the latest to rattle their cages.

[Mr. K]

I have a better word (ok 2) CAMERA ANGLE tricks.. (ok thats 3)

The first picture is looking down at the house, the second is taken from closer to the water looking up at the house

[right wing]

[ArrogantBustard]

Wow! That glacier has a Bowflex Body!

"My results are very real..."