Global warming - phooey

[SamSpade]

Originally Posted by Lenny

From where does the water come that freezes and builds up the glaciers?

Same place it does everywhere else.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by SamSpade

Same place it does everywhere else.

Meaning the snows have to have been decreasing for the past several years for the glaciers to disappear. Since we know that glaciers within a few miles of each other advance and retreat independently, a global climate change can't be the explanation, right?

[SamSpade]

Originally Posted by Lenny

Meaning the snows have to have been decreasing for the past several years for the glaciers to disappear. Since we know that glaciers within a few miles of each other advance and retreat independently, a global climate change can't be the explanation, right?

Never said otherwise. Just saying that meltoff that goes for centuries doesn't mean the glacier isn't disappearing - or that it is. You have to measure other things to make that determination.

The other thing is, glaciers are frickin' huge. They CAN melt for centuries, even millennia - and have, forming great glacial lakes. The observation that fresh water has been flowing for a long time doesn't mean the problem doesn't exist, nor that it is imminent.