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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 25-May-2009 At 10:59:03 PM silver_13

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Sorry for a longish post.
I was born in Kazakhstan in a city where you can catch an early morning bus, climb a mountain (~4000m altitude) and be back in timefor dinner- that’ what I did almost every weekend for quite some time. After first few years climbing, I noticed that glaciers seem to shrunk. Thought I must have been mistaken as I thought that this kind of processes should take dozens, maybe hundreds of years. Then after a few more years, I looked at my old mountain photos and realized that glaciers did shrunk a bit. This was in the 80’s, some time before Al Gore. I had friends glaciologists, seismologists, hydrologists, these people lived high in mountains for years and they were all in agreement that something’s happening.
Actually, one of them is quite a name in mountain glaciology, he works at Idaho Uni now and I can assure that he was not bought by the Global Warming Lobby 20 years ago. Still, he thinks that Asian glaciers are melting due to warming.
Last year I went back to KZ for the first time in 9 years and saw something which I can only describe as a disaster because so many glaciers are gone. Mountains became dangerous, rockfalls everywhere.
Unfortunately, warming is there, I saw it with my own eyes. Don’t want to go into arguments whether it’s caused by CO2 emissions or by something else.
However, I’m not sure if electric cars and solar panels will help reducing the said emissions. They are highly complex devices therefore they require a lot of energy to produce. Could it be that those who think that the best way at this stage is to avoid over-consumption, are right? Turning lights/monitors off, using smaller cars, taking public transport, avoiding bottled water etc? Don’t know where to draw the line though.