Not cooling or repairing it's self?

Question

Scroll down on this goverment site,to the two pictures of Wedge Mtn.

http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/posters/bc/bc_01_e.php

Take a careful look at 1979.

Then compare it to this picture taken in 2006.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2959574120081215994oScXTk

With this my opinion remains firm.That the earth heats,and cools in natural cycles.

Answer 1

Did you know that the first eath day was to stop global cooling. Now its all about global warming. In my opinion they are just saying this because they want the extra research money. heck in my college town it has been colder this year than the past like 7 or 8 years.

Answer 2

Phillip, I wish the picture was taken at the exact same angle of the 1979 and 1998 photos, but I guess beggars can't be choosers.

What I find funny is peoples belief that glaciers should never recede. How the heck do they know that they shouldn't recede?

Especially when we take in the facts that glaciers have been receding since the beginning of this interglacial period. If they didn't New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota (All the little states above New York, and a bunch of other states and Canada would still be buried under a glacier so thick no life could live in that area. But the AGW believers are going to believe what they want to believe and no amount of proof is going to change that.

Answer 3

but what is causing these cycles????

scientists have found that most of the cycles are due to changes in the orbit of the earth called the "Milankovitch cycles". it is also known that these changes take thousands upon thousands of years and that they do not account for the resent warming.

so the past warming may have been natural but this current warming cannot be attributed to any natural events.

Answer 4

i'm not seeing anything?

in 79 it was to the water

in 98 it was back a little

in 06 it was back a lot

???

Answer 5

If you were able to take that picture 10,000 years ago, you would be standing on a 10 mile thick sheet of ice.

The glaciers have been retreating for 100 centuries.  Why panic now?

Answer 6

Philip, It is hard to tell if the pictures from the two different links are of the same glaciers.  But if they are, then it looks like Wedgemont Glacier has further receded since 1998.

Edit: Yup, definitely looks like this glaciers is receding. Up from the shore line, there is a boulder protruding from the 1998 glacier. This boulder is completely exposed by 2006.

Here are more before/after pictures if interested:

http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/...

Answer 7

I'm not sure what you think you see in these pictures (1979 is clearly a much larger glacier, terminating at the lake, than 1998 or 2006), but I do know that we're talking about a global problem.  One glacier, even if it were growing, is meaningless noise when you look at the actual glacial shrinkage over the entire planet.

Here's the latest data on worldwide glacier monitoring:

http://www.wgms.ch/mbb/mbb9/sum06.html

Answer 8

There have been natural cycles in the past.  But the global data clearly proves this is not one.

As far as the Earth repairing itself, James Lovelock is the leading scientist on the Earth's ability to do that.  He's found it to be extraordinary and has written many peer reviewed scientific articles about it.

The data on global warming has changed his mind.  His latest book is a passionate plea for massive construction of nuclear power plants to avoid devastation.

http://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Gaia-Earth...

Coming from Lovelock, that's amazing.  But it's all about the global data, not a picture of one place.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Answer 9

Today here is what we know:  many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more destruction.  Blacktop (roads and parking lots), buildings, air pollution (causes lung and other diseases), deforestation, duststorms (which increase hurricanes and cyclones and cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's), solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels) are human problems we need to fix to keep life on earth sustainable! The federal government needs to adopt a pollution surcharge to balance the field and advance new technologies. We must pay the real price of oil (petrochemicals) including global warming, cleanup and for health effects. But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with little evidence! The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes. But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and they form clouds cooling earth but causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). But humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms. The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and has not even started).

President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected.

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface.