Just this morning CNN presented a segment titled “Extreme Weather” in which they showed it snowing in New England today! In the middle of January, no less! Can you imagine? There were snow plows out and everything. Plus last week, on Christmas Day, on Anderson Cooper’s show (also on CNN) they showed a glacier in Chile that was shrinking in the summer heat (Chile being in the southern hemisphere and all) – they demonstrated this shrinkage with GPS measurements and everything. They took the measurements and then they said: “See? This proves that man is causing global warming.” I know I was convinced. At least, I was until my daughter pointed out that it might be more convincing if the glaciers were melting in Chile in the winter, or if they were sun bathing in New England in January. Also, they seem to have forgotten to explain how they linked the warm summer weather to something that man had done. Hmm… now I’m just confused.
And speaking of glaciers, the attached photo is one I took on our family Christmas trip to Patagonia back in 2005. It turns out that watching ice melt (glaciers calve) is as fun as watching lava bubble.
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