There's no such thing as global warming. Try telling them that.

[genieroze]

Ice-capped roof of world turns to desert
Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Published: 07 May 2006

Global warming is rapidly melting the ice-bound roof of the world, and turning it into desert, leading scientists have revealed.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences - the country's top scientific body - has announced that the glaciers of the Tibetan plateau are vanishing so fast that they will be reduced by 50 per cent every decade. Each year enough water permanently melts from them to fill the entire Yellow River.

They added that the vast environmental changes brought about by the process will increase droughts and sandstorms over the rest of the country, and devastate many of the world's greatest rivers, in what experts warn will be an "ecological catastrophe".

The plateau, says the academy, has a staggering 46,298 glaciers, covering almost 60,000 square miles. At an average height of 13,000 feet above sea level, they make up the largest area of ice outside the polar regions, nearly a sixth of the world's total.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362549.ece

[uppityperson]

1. it's not warmer where I live, not warmer at all, so how could it be global

I know, it was a "them" question. Overall warming does NOT MEAN WARMER EVERYWHERE! Idiots they be.

[orwell]

2. Don't worry...

...the adults are in charge.

(Can we give it back to the kids?)

[genieroze]

3. Not soon enough to do anything about it Scary article

Global warming fastest for 20,000 years - and it is mankind's fault
By Steve Connor, Science Editor
Published: 04 May 2006

Global warming is made worse by man-made pollution and the scale of the problem is unprecedented in at least 20,000 years, according to a draft report by the world's leading climate scientists.

The leaked assessment by the group of international experts says there is now overwhelming evidence to show that the Earth's climate is undergoing dramatic transformation because of human activity.

A draft copy of the report by a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are at the highest for at least 650,000 years.

It predicts that global average temperatures this century will rise by between 2C and 4.5C as a result of the doubling of carbon dioxide levels caused by man-made emissions.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10204

[Kerrytravelers]

4. But isn't warmer weather nicer? Shorts and less snow to shovel...

[skids]

5. Yeah I've heard that one...

...that group of people really don't seem to understand what a biosphere is and why rapid changes are bad for it, and why that's bad for them.

It can help to explain to them that the CO2 isn't only warming the globe, it's also making the oceans acidic and killing the entire food chain at the roots.