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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 10-Jun-2009 At 2:14:57 AM rod

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On 28/05/2009 D.Lodge wrote:
>If you want some evidence that the world is heating up just look at the
>worlds Glaciers they are dissapearing at an alarming rate. North face of
>the Eiger no snow now over summer and large chuncks of other mountains
>falling off due to lack of ice to hold them together. There it is over
>now.:p
>P.S I like wind turbines they look Cool

I don't see glacial changes as concrete evidence of GW, simply anecdotal points of changes in our lifetimes. Read "The White Spider": in the short timeframe between the '30's and the '50's significant change was witnessed in the disappearance of icefields. Written records from Roman times show even thinner glacial cover in the European Alps than now.

Actual GW yet or not, its the prospect of what will come that I find concerning. Paying some insurance in the form of changed lifestyle, reduced global population and moving to low or zero carbon energy systems in order to mitigate the potential effects over the next several 100 years seems pretty sensible to me.