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Editor:

Recently, 19 square miles of ice has been broken off of Ellesmere Island in Canada. In the past the Seron and Ward Hunt Ice Shelves have been drastically melted and broken as well.

This would not be a problem normally because thick sea ice would grow back. However, due to the effects of global warming, the ice refuses to re-grow. Rare ecosystems are being lost due to this effect and may very well become extinct. There needs to be more drastic measures taken to address global warming.

We should be raising awareness on an international level. And this country will be going into a drastic melt of its own if something more is not done.

Awareness needs to be on high alert for global warming and environmental preservation. If not, the consequences could be disastrous. This planet is the only one we have and we should be taking better care of it.

BRITTNEY HENDERSON, Casper


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Marion wrote on Oct 14, 2008 7:31 AM:

" Son of a gun, as I look out the window at my flowers etc bowed down with snow, it is real hard to get excited about global warming. Our economy is in real trouble right now, more of the political correctness could destroy it. We need to get our country back on track. Now I certainly have no problem with conserving our resources, but environmentalists would do well to start with themselves, not forcing others to do what enviros don't want to do. "

BULL wrote on Oct 14, 2008 8:46 AM:

" What are you actually doing to help ? "

Global Warming Debunker wrote on Oct 14, 2008 7:37 PM:

" OMG! Snow til August! One of the coldest summers in Alaska's history! It is the beginning of another ice age, I tell you! Run for your lives!!!! Aahhahahahhahahh!

Now that the Earth is entering a completely normal cooling period, as it exits an also normal warming period, these eco-fundamentalist, global warming cultists will have to alter their religious edicts to match the weather.

I'm wondering if Brittney walks the walk, leaving her car home on Friday nights, instead of spewing CO2 into the atmosphere while cruising 2nd? I don't really need to ask that question, after seeing video of Al Gore flying all over the globe in his Gulfstream II.

www.adn.com/news/environment/story/555283.html

Bad weather was good for Alaska glaciers
MASS BALANCE: For decades, summer snow loss has exceeded winter snowfall.

By CRAIG MEDRED
cmedred@adn.com

(10/13/08 23:08:04)

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.

Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

"In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound," said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. "On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

Read the rest at the link:
www.adn.com/news/environment/story/555283.html "

Flash wrote on Oct 14, 2008 7:43 PM:

" But the Antarctica ice shield is growing, so, what's the problem? "

Tipi wrote on Oct 15, 2008 1:09 PM:

" I think she was talking about GLOBAL WARMING. Not what happenened this year in your back yard or on an isolated piece of ice in Alaska. Would you folks like to see a real bibliography on the subject? If you do I'm sure you would find these types of articles make up a very small portion of the whole. Look at the DOW. We just had the biggest daily point gain on record in the midst of the second biggest drop of all time. Try and see the bigger picture here instead of focusing on what you would like to be the truth. "

Tipi wrote on Oct 15, 2008 1:13 PM:

" Flash, it grew last winter (that would be last summer for you). You must be talking about all that growth over the last 30 million years, right? Are you a Glaciologist or a GLOBAL WARMING DEBUNKER? "

and wrote on Oct 15, 2008 8:18 PM:

" Tipi at least Global Warming Debunker provided quotes from actual sites made by scientists in the climate field. Exactly what discipline is your climatology degree in?

The only reason the global warming issue is pushed is so Alphonse Gore can scam some more money out of carbon credits (similar to the acts of another Alphonse). Yes carbon credits for the environmentalist want to be to buy so they feel better about not cutting back on their actual carbon consumption and footprint.

The only thing you accomplished is saying the same thing in two posts that steer said in one simple line, exactly nothing productive. "

BULL wrote on Oct 16, 2008 9:33 AM:

" You sure don,t have any great things in your simple minded comment , and. "

and wrote on Oct 16, 2008 12:57 PM:

" Your point steer (both of them) was less than nothing by the way "don,t should be don't” . I am assuming you do not have spell check. But then again what can one expect from a sea going guard Chihuahua. "

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