For the past three weeks, a set of figures has been working a hole in my mind. On April 16th, New Scientist published a letter from the famous botanist David Bellamy. Many of the world’s glaciers, he claimed, “are not shrinking but in fact are growing. ... 555 of all the 625 glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland, have been growing since 1980.”(1) His letter was instantly taken up by climate change deniers. And it began to worry me. What if Bellamy was right?
He is a scientist, formerly a senior lecturer at the University of Durham. He knows, in other words, that you cannot credibly cite data unless it is well-sourced. Could it be that one of the main lines of evidence of the impacts of global warming – the retreat of the world’s glaciers – was wrong?
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****************************************************************** The American Geophysical Union, issued a consensus statement in 2003 declaring, “Natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures.” The world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia. If current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years. Will you let the "current trends continue"? http://profiles.yahoo.com/swillsqueal
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