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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 26-May-2009 At 2:29:03 AM Rob668
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On 25/05/2009 silver_13 wrote:
>Sorry for a longish post.
>I was born in Kazakhstan in a city where you can catch an early morning
>bus, climb a mountain (~4000m altitude) and be back in timefor dinner-
>that’ what I did almost every weekend for quite some time. After first
>few years climbing, I noticed that glaciers seem to shrunk. Thought I must
>have been mistaken as I thought that this kind of processes should take
>dozens, maybe hundreds of years. Then after a few more years, I looked
>at my old mountain photos and realized that glaciers did shrunk a bit.
>This was in the 80’s, some time before Al Gore. I had friends glaciologists,
>seismologists, hydrologists, these people lived high in mountains for years
>and they were all in agreement that something’s happening.
>Actually, one of them is quite a name in mountain glaciology, he works
>at Idaho Uni now and I can assure that he was not bought by the Global
>Warming Lobby 20 years ago. Still, he thinks that Asian glaciers are melting
>due to warming.
>Last year I went back to KZ for the first time in 9 years and saw something
>which I can only describe as a disaster because so many glaciers are gone.
>Mountains became dangerous, rockfalls everywhere.
>Unfortunately, warming is there, I saw it with my own eyes. Don’t want
>to go into arguments whether it’s caused by CO2 emissions or by something
>else.
>However, I’m not sure if electric cars and solar panels will help reducing
>the said emissions. They are highly complex devices therefore they require
>a lot of energy to produce. Could it be that those who think that the best
>way at this stage is to avoid over-consumption, are right? Turning lights/monitors
>off, using smaller cars, taking public transport, avoiding bottled water
>etc? Don’t know where to draw the line though.
>

Every little bit helps. Even getting involved in re-vegetation activities will do some good (try TreeProject for this one)

Rob

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