[Oe List ...] Glaciers melting

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Forwarded with permission by Jann McGuire.  This is from David Cunningham and 
Martha Dempster's son Russell.

Hey everybody,

    I recently flew over Iceland and Greenland on my way home from the UK.

The ice sheets and glaciers are truly awesome when viewed from 37,000 feet!

However, I couldn't help but notice the vast evidence for melting. This was

showed to me by the significant distance between terminal moraines and the

glacial terminus, and by huge dry open dust fields where ice sheets used to

yawn over land and into the North Atlantic. Furthermore, it seems to me that

in the past few summer climbing seasons I have noticed that the glaciers

seem to look smaller than ever in the Cascade Mountains. Because of this I

decided to do some reading of current climate and glacier research. I found

a site put up by some researchers from MA studying glaciers in the north

cascades, and their study is one of the best I have found. To describe their

findings briefly, and to an educated and concerned audience, I would say:

appalling! I have posted the link to their website below.

    I suggest that everybody read over this research and forward the link to

all the people you think should learn more about this climate crisis.

Because as Al Gore describes in his film, "this isn't so much an issue of

politics and science, its a moral one". Peace everybody.


-Russell Cunningham


The link: http://www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/diseqilibrium.html


    PS.To people who still think that global warming is non-existant or

non-human-influenced, go see Gore's film (an inconvenient truth) and grow

some gray matter while your at it