Time-lapse: extreme ice loss

[f2f]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeIpjhAqsM"]YouTube - James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss[/ame]

[ren]

That really sucks some serious balls. Scary how we are destroying this planet of ours. The 400ft capping face that retreats almost 2 miles in 75 minutes is nuts.

[Meanfruit]

When China, U.S, Russians, India, and all the other major fossil fuel burners decide it's time to shit or get off the pot, that's when things will change. As long as there is a dollar to be made, fat fuggin chance of that. Too bad Alberta next door is doing their part for Climate Change. B.C is not much better

Barbara Yaffe, March 27, 2008, Vancouver Sun -- Alberta is a filthy rich, high-spending, pollution-belching piece of property growing increasingly out of sync with other provinces.

That's one way of interpreting a flotilla of figures featured in a newly released report titled State of the West, 2008; Western Canadian Demographic and Economic Trends.

The analysis points repeatedly to Alberta as being exceptional, in terms of resource bounty, government largesse and attitude toward the planetary crisis known as climate change.

The 121-page report, prepared by economist Brett Gartner at the Calgary-based Canada West Foundation, reveals Alberta, with 10 per cent of the country's population, now spews nearly a third of its greenhouse-gas emissions. "Alberta's emissions are the highest in the West by far -- nearly 1.5 times more than the other three western provinces combined."

For example, while Alberta was responsible in 2005 for emitting 71 tonnes of C02 per capita, B.C. -- deriving 89 per cent of its power from hydro -- emitted just 15.5 tonnes per capita.

In both provinces emissions have grown vigorously, along with the economy, despite Canada's having signed the Kyoto Protocol in April of 1998.

Between 1990 and 2005, greenhouse gas emissions increased 37 per cent in Alberta, 30 per cent in B.C. Nationally, emissions grew by 24.7 per cent. Quebec experienced the most modest growth, at just 4.8 per cent.

Alberta's emissions record obviously has influenced Canada's status as a world-class polluter.

And that's what we are. Canada, with a .05 per cent population share, is one of the world's highest per capita emitters, responsible for two per cent of all greenhouse gases. The report blames this country's resource-based economy, huge land mass and climate.

Alberta is the No. 1 supplier of crude oil and natural gas to the Americans, with heavily polluting oilsands crude production overtaking production of conventional oil.

Indeed, Alberta is more reliant than other western provinces on the U.S. for trade, with nearly 90 per cent of its exports heading due south.

All of which is translating into big bucks for Albertans.

[legallyillegal]

know what else alberta has

ralph klein

[f2f]

know what else alberta has

ralph klein

ah, yes. the stunning good looks of Ralph Lauren combined with the scent of Calvin Klein.

[LoloB]

Wow, that's some crazy footage, thanks for sharing.

[karpiel]

Wanna see extreme ice loss?

The earth used to look like this.

[cliffhucker]

wow, thats a lot of ice loss, too bad its been like um,,, warming up for the past 2000 years. Everybody start driving hybrids and live in sustainable dung shit houses so it will cool off again. I'm pretty sure that car pooling, increasing your average MPG by 10 mpg, and taxing carbon footprints won't cool is off either. Maybe all the dodo brains that are creating the same presentation about how we are living in an inferno should put their smarts towards actually helping, like creating a new "clean" fuel... HYDROGEN! oh wait, thats not new, its been around a while now, we just aren't using it. Why? because our liberal president decied to bail out the current car companies that aren't doing anything about creating a new sandard of fuel efficiency or using a newer fuel. They also wont let us use perfectly clean nuclear energy... Funny how France, a country left activists use as an example of a clean country that is more progressive than the states uses nuclear power and we don't....

[highangle]

wow, thats a lot of ice loss, too bad its been like um,,, warming up for the past 2000 years...

Christianity?

[cliffhucker]

Thats pretty damn funny..... maybe a sign of the end of the world???

[grrrr]

It's all a liberal lie!!! You will all go to hell for suggesting global warming is real!! The earth is really cooling!! If it's not cooling, it's caused by sun spots!! If it's not caused by sun spots, it's just caused by nature!! if it's not caused by nature, then global warming is good!! If it's not good, then it's probably a good thing!! If it's not a good thing, then it's too expensive to fix!! If it's not too expensive to fix, it's all a lie!!

[cliffhucker]

Or... THe world is heeating up alarmingly fast for the last 2000 years now its all heating up so fast that we are all going to die!!! Or wold is over populated and we have to start living in tiny apartments like the Japanese or we are going to die!!! The world is starving to death an d there isnt enough food for everyone so we are all going to die!!! Too many people too many problems die!!! Our forests are all gone and precious species of animals are goen so we will all die!!! Drive hybrids and look like you are green or we will all die!!!

I like the conservative outlook better. IMO

[RagDoll]

I like the conservative outlook better. IMO

Putting your head in the sand and pretending it's not happening?

Throwing your hands in the air and saying there's nothing we can do about it?

Dismissing those trying to actually help as tree-hugging douches, and thereby standing in the way of any real chance at moving technology and attitudes forward in time to actually make a difference?

[JayPowHound]

Political Asshattery...?

[cliffhucker]

Putting your head in the sand and pretending it's not happening?

Throwing your hands in the air and saying there's nothing we can do about it?

Dismissing those trying to actually help as tree-hugging douches, and thereby standing in the way of any real chance at moving technology and attitudes forward in time to actually make a difference?

I would like to clarify my political stance, when I say I am conservative, that does not necessarilly mean I am Republican or that I endorse current representatives actions. No, I do not beleive that we can carpool and hybrid our way out of this mess. I do not beleive that a garbage dung house thats "eco friendly" or paying twice as much money for a pair of "green" clothes will ever make a difference. Besides, if everyone were "tree-hugging douches" as you call them, the trees would fall down, and there would be no one left to grow food or do anything else. I DO believe that if allowed to do so by government ie: fewer regulations, that American ingenuity, or human ingenuity will prevail and we can find new cheaper, environmentally friendly alternatives to our foreign fossil fuel dependance. I DO not beleive that earth has gone to hell in a hand basket yet, I beleive that there is still plenty of space for everyone and but that we should still use care in protecting our natural recources. I do not condemn anyone for practicing what they beleive, so long as that is truly what they believe, but I can say I don't agree at all with what they are doing adn I can say that they are stupid. I am not against cleaning up our act environmentally, so long as it doesn't get put before the well being of our nation. It would be pointless to force our cuntry into a recession in an attempt to instantly mend our mistakes when the latter would destroy us. Lately I think that going green has become more of a statement rather than an attemp to better the earth. Obamas government intervevntion attempt at putting new fuel efficient cars on the market took tax dollars from you and I and payed people to put even more cars on the road than before, many suggest this action increased pollution. I don't think for a second that Al Gore made his movie and "green" movement just for the sake of stopping global warming, he made a lot of money off of it. If eco maniacs truly thought humans were destroying th earth why wouldn't they destroy themselves?

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[JayPowHound]

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I'm speechless.

[Meanfruit]

I would like to clarify my political stance, when I say I am conservative, that does not necessarilly mean I am Republican or that I endorse current representatives actions. No, I do not beleive that we can carpool and hybrid our way out of this mess. I do not beleive that a garbage dung house thats "eco friendly" or paying twice as much money for a pair of "green" clothes will ever make a difference. Besides, if everyone were "tree-hugging douches" as you call them, the trees would fall down, and there would be no one left to grow food or do anything else. I DO believe that if allowed to do so by government ie: fewer regulations, that American ingenuity, or human ingenuity will prevail and we can find new cheaper, environmentally friendly alternatives to our foreign fossil fuel dependance. I DO not beleive that earth has gone to hell in a hand basket yet, I beleive that there is still plenty of space for everyone and but that we should still use care in protecting our natural recources. I do not condemn anyone for practicing what they beleive, so long as that is truly what they believe, but I can say I don't agree at all with what they are doing adn I can say that they are stupid. I am not against cleaning up our act environmentally, so long as it doesn't get put before the well being of our nation. It would be pointless to force our cuntry into a recession in an attempt to instantly mend our mistakes when the latter would destroy us. Lately I think that going green has become more of a statement rather than an attemp to better the earth. Obamas government intervevntion attempt at putting new fuel efficient cars on the market took tax dollars from you and I and payed people to put even more cars on the road than before, many suggest this action increased pollution. I don't think for a second that Al Gore made his movie and "green" movement just for the sake of stopping global warming, he made a lot of money off of it. If eco maniacs truly thought humans were destroying th earth why wouldn't they destroy themselves?

Ok, I was on board with you, until you said "fewer regulations". After that, it was all Republinoise. Nice try, though.