Dramatic Photos of Melting Glaciers Just a Hoax?

by Stephanie Rogers · View Comments

We’ve all heard it: proclamations that global warming is ‘the biggest hoax ever perpetuated on the people of the world, bar none.’ (That quote, of course, comes courtesy of the renowned village idiot Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center). Global warming deniers think that the entire green movement is a conspiracy to take their money and, as we’ve mentioned several times, ‘end the American way of life’.

So, I guess these dramatic photos of a melting glacier in Norway are just one big trick – photoshopped, or set up. Perhaps Al Gore himself was there with a blowtorch, melting it back so he could claim it was an effect of global warming. Because, as Rush Limbaugh wants you to think, Al Gore is just getting rich off of all us stupid treehuggers that care about the environment. Ignore the man behind the curtain!

These photographs were taken over a period of eight years. The change is, indeed, mind boggling.

Link [Glacsweb]

Tagged as: Climate, Climate Change, Glaciers

Sam

I also forgot to add that this is why there is a decrease in the people climbing the glacier; most visit the glacier in the winter, NOT in the summer!

Sam

HOAX ALERT! I read in an article from my Biology Professor that this was not taken over many years, but from winter to summer!!!

Stephanie Rogers

Okay, Joe. Here's the thing. Do you really want to take that big of a chance? Let's say we all just sat back and said, 'whatever, we want to assume we're not causing these problems, so we're going to go on with life as usual'. Our current lifestyle and the destructive means with which we maintain it are NOT. SUSTAINABLE.

Even if global warming didn't exist (which it does) and wasn't caused by humans (which it is), we are polluting this planet to such an extent that it will be disgusting by the time our great-grandchildren inherit it - or maybe even sooner. Think about it: gigantic mountains of trash. Oceans filled with plastic gunk. Species dying off left and right, creating big gaps in the all-important food chain. Constant wars over oil. Destruction of entire regions due to coal mining. I could go on and on. If we have the power to do things in a cleaner way, why shouldn't we? We, as humans, are creating this mess and we are the only creatures on the planet with the capability to stop it. Therefore, we're responsible for doing everything we can to protect and preserve planet not only for future humans but for the millions of other species we share it with.

Does it really make sense to you to say, 'global warming is a natural phenomenon and we're powerless to stop it, therefore we should continue destroying the earth'?

People have this strange sense of entitlement to the way we currently live our lives, regardless of the effect on our surroundings. I don't get it.

Joe

"And we could argue about whether this particular glacier melting is due to a natural warming of the earth or human-caused warming all day long. It doesn’t matter, when it comes right down to it. We are doing things to the earth that could very well end up destroying it, us and damn near everything else on the planet. We need to stop. Period."

Logic alert! If the glacier is melting due to natural warming of the earth, i.e., it is NOT due to anything that humans are doing, well, then it DOES matter, quite a bit. All of the proposed legislation and ideas for changing carbon emissions would therefore be nothing but sheer lunacy. Unless and until I get further information that somehow shows a direct correlation between human action and global warming, the entire global warming theory is to me akin to Harold Hill in The Music Man when he says "You got trouble, folks, right here in River City!" (I.e., a manufactured crisis designed to sell something - a con.)

Stephanie Rogers

Are we looking at the same photos? I'd say the change is pretty dramatic. And we could argue about whether this particular glacier melting is due to a natural warming of the earth or human-caused warming all day long. It doesn't matter, when it comes right down to it. We are doing things to the earth that could very well end up destroying it, us and damn near everything else on the planet. We need to stop. Period.

Luke

I dunno about this, I don't think you can say "the change is mind-boggling" over just a period of 8 years. What if, and this is a big what if, the earth is just in one of its heating up phases? Remember 10 years ago. with the big earth day push? That was awesome... and it got nothing done. It is not a hoax. just taking a very minute period in time and taking it out of context. I believe in global warming, I just don't think it's happening as fast as what people think.