Listen to ICE again TODAY
- 6 Feb 07, 08:58 AM
On BBC Radio 4, FM and LW at 11.02 GMT - and streamed here. Or use the category section and listen any time. Here's Gabrielle Walker interviewing Ralph Raynor overlooking the Helheim Glacier in Greenland - a Glacier now travelling at 6km per year, lubricated on its bed of rock by melt water.
Ice is one of the key weather bells in climate change science. Whether it be the glaciers in Alaska, Greenland, the Himalayas - the snowfields in the Alps, the Ptrenees and Australia - of the ice shelf in Antarctica. Ice is a mobile entity and changes are being observed world-wide. This programme invesigates how a changing world of snow and ice is affecting wildlife and their habitats.
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Its most curious that Im trying my best on a small budget by cycling to work,driving a small family car putting marks on the kettle (much to the amusement of the family) to only boil what is required. To hear of your reporter and scientist landing on iceberg with helicopters and flying thousands of miles to get there? Wasting my bloody efforts.
Stop talking the walk and walk the walk
Nick Padwick
PS I saw Princess Ann on a skidew in one of your news reports in the Antartic. What a joke
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Your reporter is right about one thing... It IS hard to believe.
All this hysterical reporting of weather is little more than :-
a) Scientists stirring the politicians for more funding for their research.
b) Politicians realising that this hysteria is a gold plated opportunity to create a tax rvenue stream similar to the medieval Catholic church taxes when peasants believed the only way to heaven was through the church. The mythology is similar too... Pay NOW for later benefits...
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The program on 6Feb2007 notes that there have been large changes in Global Temperature in the past as evidenced in the Greenland Ice and SeaFloor Mud. These are large when comapred to the .6 degree or so change over the last 100 years.
So perhaps something other than the Greenhouse Effect could have caused it. Perhaps variations in the amount of heat emitted by the sun and received by the earth (whose orbit varies).
I'm not saying that's the cause...but I'm not stupid and need convincing not dicatating to.
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For Bill - who objects to the idea of
"Pay NOW for later benefits" - a most charitable outlook. Future generations will be relieved to hear about it as they wonder how to manage a damaged and overcrowded planet.
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Great Blog and programme.
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