christopher
Here's an idea: don't bother, because there's *nothing* anyone can do about it.
Tony Morris
Christopher. Your argument is well researched and quite compelling.
watersworm
shoud / maybe/ predict/ models etc Nintendo science for the taste of alarming.
Phillip Noe
Even here we have climate change deniers posting comments. Human-caused climate change is a fact despite the fossil fuel industry's efforts to confuse and mislead the public. Best we work to reduce emissions or we'll force those that come after us to suffer from our neglect and greed. Learn more at these sites. Google search... NASA Climate Change Consensus Google search... AAAS Climate Change What We Know
Richalone442
Bad Data in, bad data out, when will these people realize their models are all wrong. We have no idea how much snow those mountains will receive. There's no such thing as global warming, and the climate changes all the time, humans have nothing to do with it, the ultimate culprit is in the sky around 93 million miles away, it has always controlled our weather, and always will.
Robert in Vancouver
Climate modeling has proven to be unreliable and wrong. Problem is that the software is made with the goal of proving there is global warming.
So no mater what data you feed in, you will get dire predictions of global warming disasters.
Douglas Bennett Rogers
The freezing levels are REVERSED in this article! 95 % of the greenhouse effect on Earth is due to water. All but a trace of the remaining 5% is split between CO2 and methane. Thermal emission from the Earth is almost all from the equatorial deserts. A small change in path length water in these areas will cause a large change in thermal emittance. This can be seen in areas like Phoenix where there is a lot of artificial transpiration.
Kevin Ritchey
Unlike many uneducated conservative lap dogs, reality is something that must be faced. Change is always happening of course. We do not live in a static state. But humans are negatively affecting our Earthly environment and as humans we can make changes that can assist in altering the direction that nature inevitably takes. It is a not too subtle change that ignorance of facts only exuberates. Climate change is an elastic and pliable thing that we can improve upon just as well as denigrate. The choice is ours to make and we shouldn't allow financial gain by a select few take away our only place to live.
Koolski
Here's a climate change statistic I have formulated -- the consensus of climate change researchers seeking climate change research grants is that there is climate change.
ripshin
It's ironic that the multitude of private citizens with absolutely no financial incentive whatsoever, but who question the science behind mainstream climate change prognosticators, are derided as deniers and lap-dogs and etc, while "researchers" chasing grant money handed out for any and all things "climate change" are regarded as pure and unassailable.
A couple points that are reasonable and deserve thought. One, my understanding is that much of the mountainous glacier retreat is due to land-use change, specifically deforestation, which causes a change in the local water cycle. Thus, mountainous ice retreats due to a lack of replenishment from air moisture, not due to warming temperatures. (In all fairness, this may have been specific to a specific range / peak, rather than universal, but it still bears considering.) Second, as has been pointed out already, the models used for climate projection have been found, repeatedly, to be statistically insignificant. Non-relevant. So, it seems non-credible to point to one as a primary source.
rip