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Glacier
Park faces meltdown
Fuck it, it's just our planet -
why bother?
Standing under a cloudless
midsummer sky at the Many Glacier Hotel, ranger Bob Schuster gestures
toward the
saw-toothed southern horizon and holds up evidence of a changing
climate in a place indigenous Blackfeet Indians
dubbed the "backbone of the world." His repeat photographs show the
rapid retreat of the 100-year-old park's iconic
geological features, which have declined from about 150 at the end of
the Little Ice Age in the mid-19th century to
about two dozen today.
<>Though the views from this northwestern Montana vantage point probably will be just as spectacular a century
from now as they were when the USA's 10th national park was founded in 1910, Schuster's before-and-after
photos illustrate what park experts say could mean dramatic changes to its ecosystem.
"How much of (the glacier loss) is a natural cycle and how much is human-caused is a complex issue,"
says Schuster, who notes recent estimates that the park's last glacier could vanish within 10 to 20 years.
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The planet is cooking itself to
death - all because the Democrats are too scared to speak up.
Because they are sacless weenies, our planet is being run by BIG OIL
and Jim Inhofe-types.
Anyone know how we could get word to Obama that this is serious?
Let's talk about certain cities in
South America.
Their glaciers are melting, too.
The difference is, glacier-fed streams are their only source of fresh
water.
for drinking water, agriculture, industry and power generation during key parts of the year."
-- Achim Steiner, Under-Secretary General of the UN and executive director of its environment programme (UNEP), Link
Hell, it's only drinking water for a billion people.
Why should our meek-mice Democrats bother to speak up for something so trivial?
Sure, go ahead, let Jim Inhofe kill those people.|
After all, they have brown skin so they're not worth saving.
"Global warming is a hoax!"
He's right - those melting glaciers are LYING!