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I vote for Big Rocks Nat'l Park. Slightly more majestic than "Dirt". Sigh, I'll miss Glacier, sorry that it will be gone in my lifetime. It was beautiful there.
That said, perhaps we'll merely see the Big Human Die-Back in the next century or so, as food prices skyrocket and heatwaves take out populations, to say nothing of freshwater crises. The poor, of course, will be the hardest hit. But I still think humanity will make it through "The Changes". We're pretty resilient, and creative to boot.
That said, perhaps we'll merely see the Big Human Die-Back in the next century or so, as food prices skyrocket and heatwaves take out populations, to say nothing of freshwater crises. The poor, of course, will be the hardest hit. But I still think humanity will make it through "The Changes". We're pretty resilient, and creative to boot.
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For those that haven't been to Glacier, there's a better way than driving. Take the train right from downtown Seattle, which makes several stops in Glacier.
If you're careful, you can do it in a weekend and not miss work. Hop on the 4:30 on Friday (ok, so you have to leave work early), sleep on the train and get off at East Glacier. Rent a car and hike all day. In the evening hop on a sleeper going west. You're back by late morning Sunday.
I recommend the Roomette - it's cozy, but comfortable. And though it's a lot more expensive than a plain seat, think of it like getting a hotel room.
If you're careful, you can do it in a weekend and not miss work. Hop on the 4:30 on Friday (ok, so you have to leave work early), sleep on the train and get off at East Glacier. Rent a car and hike all day. In the evening hop on a sleeper going west. You're back by late morning Sunday.
I recommend the Roomette - it's cozy, but comfortable. And though it's a lot more expensive than a plain seat, think of it like getting a hotel room.
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Good riddance. Ice never did anything for anyone. I'll be a lot happier with an orange tree in my back yard. Or mangoes. Mmm, mangoes.
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oh you anti-science environmental luddites....
Climate. Changes. make a note of it.
it warms. it cools. ice ages come. they go.
don't be hysterical bedwetting reactionaries.....
Climate. Changes. make a note of it.
it warms. it cools. ice ages come. they go.
don't be hysterical bedwetting reactionaries.....
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"Eight years until they are gone"
2012 + 8 = 2020
"By 2030 they could all be gone."
Who needs math in science?
2012 + 8 = 2020
"By 2030 they could all be gone."
Who needs math in science?
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Re-christen North Cascades NP as "New Glacier NP".
It's always been where most of the lower 48 glaciers are, anyway.
It's always been where most of the lower 48 glaciers are, anyway.
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This is about Chuckie wanting to use the word 'anthropocene' (and desperately wanting to be invited to someone, anyone's, book club).
No one's interested in pseudo-intellectuals, Chuckie. You want to impress someone? Learn to swim.
No one's interested in pseudo-intellectuals, Chuckie. You want to impress someone? Learn to swim.
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#6
Seriously (and I know you're being facetious) I read an article in Scientific American yesterday where some guy was decrying that we might have an ice free Arctic. ? Shorter shipping between China and Europe? Oslo and Seattle? Why not?
Oh, and if all those glaciers are melting so fast, shouldn't we drowning by now by meters high rise in sea level. We're not.
(Drum roll...bring in the latest AGW "explanation" of the inexplicable...)
Seriously (and I know you're being facetious) I read an article in Scientific American yesterday where some guy was decrying that we might have an ice free Arctic. ? Shorter shipping between China and Europe? Oslo and Seattle? Why not?
Oh, and if all those glaciers are melting so fast, shouldn't we drowning by now by meters high rise in sea level. We're not.
(Drum roll...bring in the latest AGW "explanation" of the inexplicable...)
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Glaciers are more visible and measurable than the hardship and famine that will result from increases in commodity prices caused by temporal and geographic shifts in precipitation distribution. This will affect developing countries disproportionately, and will favor the west economically - which adds insult to injury since we have contributed the vast majority of carbon emissions, and have resisted every effort to reduce output. Measuring the mortality caused by famine and water shortages will be difficult, but someone will eventually quantify the largest genocide in human history as the most tragic unintended consequence of the industrial revolution.
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Well, not to be a killjoy, but the "glacier" in Glacier National Park refers to the huge valleys carved by glaciers during the last ice age, not to few puny glaciers that survived in the high country. Sure, the disappearance of the high country glaciers is worrying (incidentally, the only glacier in Idaho probably disappeared during the 2000's sometime) but it's not like the glaciers are the definining charactaristic the name might imply.
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@3: "I wonder what the person or persons on Easter Island thought as they cut down the last tree."
To paraphrase Supreme Idiot a couple of posts up;
"Oh, and if all those trees are being cut down so fast, shouldn't we smothered by now by meters high rise in sawdust."
Idiocy is a resource humanity will never run out of.
To paraphrase Supreme Idiot a couple of posts up;
"Oh, and if all those trees are being cut down so fast, shouldn't we smothered by now by meters high rise in sawdust."
Idiocy is a resource humanity will never run out of.
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