In the Andes they are getting more snow than usual, theories are that the snow is insulating the ice and not allowing it to freeze as deep as it normally would. This again points to percipitation as the main cause, not temperatures. Due to the fact that these things are cyclic, over hundreds of years, (a blink of the eye to the earth) and that there are places where the exact opposite is happeneing this is not a global event but just a local event caused by normal weather patterns.
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UHhhh its a GLACIER in a TROPICAL CLIMATE>.. did you really think it wasn't going to melt? Glaciers expand and contract ALL THE TIME... its been 10,000+ years since the last ice age, why would anyone expect a glacier in a tropical area, even at the top of a mountain, not to melt away?
.. Good .. I always hated that f&%%ing glacier anyway.
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So the United States is responsible for what happens climatologically in Peru?
Dang! I am going to have to change my vacation plans for 2013.
I for one have no regrets over melting ice!
Yes, they think that we are that stupid. Here's something from Opinion Journal that exposes the fallacy of the science on global warming as concerns Antarctia:
An Ohio State University press release, meanwhile, says that temperatures in Antarctica during the late 20th century "did not climb as had been predicted by many global climate models":
It also follows a similar finding from last summer by the same research group that showed no increase in precipitation over Antarctica in the last 50 years. Most models predict that both precipitation and temperature will increase over Antarctica with a warming of the planet.
But David Bromwich, a professor of atmospheric sciences at OSU, "said the disagreement between climate model predictions and the snowfall and temperature records doesn't necessarily mean that the models are wrong." The important thing is that they work in theory, not in practice.
It is an unusually cold day where I am now. Snow in the foothills surrounding the city. Nothing strange to you in the North, but in Santiago Chile! It is suppose to be like a California August. Go to www.emol.com and see a photo of folks in the snow in the hills. What have we done to Gaia to offend her?
How many tropical forests are there in the arctic? None, I guess. I don't really feel a loss at not having glaciers in the tropics. I grew up in northern Wisconsin in the 40's and 50's; my main memory is of never being warm enough in the winter. In the 70's we were told we were going back into an ice age. Winter/cold is cruel and unfriendly to life. I'm damned if I am going to feel bad about losing a tropical glacier!
