See time lapse photography of glaciers melting

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https://www.ted.com/images/ted_logo.gifIn the mid-70s scientists finally had computers that could analyze the data that they had collected on rising global temperatures. They realized that burning fossil fuels was putting excess CO2 into the atmosphere. The heat was not escaping and so the temperature was rising, they called it Global Warming.

I remember that they said that if we did not reduce our burning of fossil fuels that the polar ice caps might melt. Their predictions have come true. We have been getting reports of events on the news, but there is a group who has been doing time-lapse photography of glacial melting that really puts it into perspective.

The Copenhagen Summit has set a goal of an 80% reduction of CO2 by 2050. First of all, it is very cynical, world oil supplies will be gone by 2050, so the reduction will occur by itself. It also means that industry can burn fossil fuels for another 40 years! Thirty years of inaction are now causing devastating changes across the planet. Scientists have been shocked that the glaciers are melting faster than their predictions.

We have a chance to save ourselves and the planet but we don't have 40 years, we have 10 years to reduce the CO2. We need to get the CO2 down to 350 parts per million by 2020. We are currently at 387ppm. The world is adding 2.5 ppm/yr. We burn 30 billion barrels of oil/yr. The earth's temperature has risen on 1.3 degrees since 1900 with devastating effects.

Cap and trade is a windfall for polluters and will have no real effect on CO2. We need a carbon tax or Cap and Dividend (an idea put out by our local Climate Protection Campaign.) Go to TED.com and check out James Balog Extreme Ice Survey. See for yourself.

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FYI here are some Links:

This one is actual presentation by James Balog, it is 19 min 19 sec long:
James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | Video on TED.com (https://www.ted.com/talks/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.html)
This next one is shorter in length, not a formal presentation; is more showing the conditions of the area that had to be endured by people & equipment in the environment plus some time lapse photography; is 3 min 47 sec long:
YouTube - The Extreme Ice Survey in Action (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaTcsyNrEec)

Also on Wikipedia, for those that are interested in reading, or do not have the ability to view the videos on the net:
Extreme Ice Survey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Ice_Survey)


In the mid-70s scientists finally had computers that could analyze the data that they had collected on rising global temperatures. They realized that burning fossil fuels was putting excess CO2 into the atmosphere. The heat was not escaping and so the temperature was rising, they called it Global Warming. I remember that they said that if we did not reduce our burning of fossil fuels that the polar ice caps might melt. Their predictions have come true. We have been getting reports of events on the news, but there is a group who has been doing time-lapse photography of glacial melting that really puts it into perspective. The Copenhagen Summit has set a goal of an 80% reduction of CO2 by 2050. First of all, it is very cynical, world oil supplies will be gone by 2050, so the reduction will occur by itself. It also means that industry can burn fossil fuels for another 40 years! Thirty years of inaction are now causing devastating changes across the planet. Scientists have been shocked that the glaciers are melting faster than their predictions. We have a chance to save ourselves and the planet but we don't have 40 years, we have 10 years to reduce the CO2. We need to get the CO2 down to 350 parts per million by 2020. We are currently at 387ppm. The world is adding 2.5 ppm/yr. We burn 30 billion barrels of oil/yr. The earth's temperature has risen on 1.3 degrees since 1900 with devastating effects. Cap and trade is a windfall for polluters and will have no real effect on CO2. We need a carbon tax or Cap and Dividend (an idea put out by our local Climate Protection Campaign.) Go to TED.com and check out James Balog Extreme Ice Survey. See for yourself.