Pictures speak a thousand of my words
March 27, 2008
Posted by CindyW in : Opinions & Thoughts , trackback
Today, I just want to post some pictures that sort of thread a few things together for me.
According to National Geographic, new satellite images reveal what scientists call the “runaway” collapse of an enormous ice shelf in Antarctica as the result of global warming. The chunk of coastal ice was some 160 square miles (415 square kilometers) in area—about seven times the size of Manhattan.
The latest report on changes in the world’s glaciers, which we cover in the newspaper today, is Mass Balance Bulletin Number 9. The take-home message for many parts of the world — from Asia to the European Alps to the Andes — appeared to be, “Farewell to ice.”
I think the dollar number (in millions) on solar investment is not exactly accurate, but it is correct in magnitude. We have long passed the Iraq war cost on this graph. According to the latest estimate, the Iraq war has cost us more than $500 billion.
CindyW
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Thanks for the images. Seeing is believing.
But Cindy, global warming is just the imagination of the human activist bureaucracy…completely different than the concrete reality that has us fighting a long-term war. Silly Cindy. Don’t you just wish Bush could get another 4 years? Maybe then we could take down that Canada….so smug…hey…we’re above you on the map and we have our own maple syrup. That’s grounds for war, no?
A picture is worth a thousand words. Scary stuff.
Cindy, thanks for posting that. It’s all inter-related. To me, you can’t talk about the environment without also talking about Iraq, and health care, and the development of the third world.
Anyway, great image. Sigh, now I better go to lolcats or something and find something to cheer me up!