Antarctic Glaciers and the Global Water Crisis 02/03/2012
Today, our journey took us to Neko Harbor, one of the prime locations in this region to view glaciers. These towering walls of ice are a majestic sight, and a humbling reminder of the fragility of the natural systems that human beings depend upon for life as we know it.
As we began our journey, I wrote about the threats we face as Antarctica’s glaciers melt and the world’s oceans rise. Yet beyond the physical impacts that rising seas pose to coastlines, glaciers are important for many other reasons. We need them in order to preserve one of the basic necessities of life: clean drinking water.
Let’s take a step back. As the global population tops 7 billion, nearly 800 million people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water. The climate crisis could make this problem worse.
He is not seeing any melting glaciers, sea level is scarcely rising if at all, and even if the bogus GRACE ice mass interpretations were correct – Antarctica wouldn’t run out of ice for hundreds of thousands of years. Why don’t these scumbags tell us what they are actually seeing?
This is why Al and his “Congregation” could do us all a favor, and fulfill their destiny by going to meet the mother ship hiding beneath the iceburg Titanic-Bopp.
WTF does clean drinking water have to do with “melting” Antarctica?
Know any country that imports the calving icebergs?
This is just a crass photo-op for the discredited Mr. Gore and his slobbering minions. If they stick around long enough, they can see all the catastrophic melting that takes place with -60 temperatures.
Just checked Weather Underground for Antarctica. This is about the “hottest” time of year down there. Also most of these readings are afternoon temperatures.
Out of approximately 80 reporting stations, there were 11 above freezing. Only one reading was above 40 (F), which was 41, next highest was 38.
There were also 11 stations 0 (F) or colder.
This does not sound like catastrophic melting. In another few weeks, Antarctica will be back in the deep freeze, which will last the next 9 months.
Al says we need glaciers in order to preserve one of the basic necessities of life: clean drinking water. So he wants to stop them from melting so we can have clean drinking water????? I wonder, is there another way to get clean drinking water from glaciers without melting them????
Seems to me the climate crisis can only help! We can siphon off some of those melting glaciers to get some safe drinking water!
“The Climate Reality Project” – I couldn’t think of a more appropriate name.
The battle is over and we who wear the sobriquet “Denier” proudly won. Yes, there are alarmists that are still making big bucks and travelling to warm places for meetings, but no government is taking this threat seriously with legislation.
These towering walls of ice are a majestic sight, and a humbling reminder of the fragility of the natural systems …
So fragile are these glaciers that they grind up whole mountains to dust.
Get a life, Al.
“…glaciers. These towering walls of ice are a majestic sight, and a humbling reminder of the fragility of the natural systems that human beings depend upon for life as we know it.” – Brother Algore
These glaciers are huge and majestic, but their size and majesty correlates with fragility in Algore’s reckoning?
The idea that mankind can melt these huge majestic glaciers without even trying causes Algore to feel humility?
Word is elephant seals are quite jealous of Gores natural insulation. A number of female seals were seen following him around.
They want to have offspring fathered by the sex-poodle!
“Antarctica wouldn’t run out of ice for hundreds of thousands of years.”
Antarctica is currently losing ice at 580Gt/year. The loss is accelerating at 26Gt/year. That leads to all the ice lost in less than 1500 years. Hardly 100s of thousands of years.
PS: Much of the ice loss in Antarctica is attributed to the acceleration of ice streams, such as the Pine Island Glacier. Hmmmm …. seems I’ve heard that name in the news recently….
Complete crap, Kevin.