The world’s melting glaciers: Disappearing alpine glaciers are an ominous sign of global warming

Every day I read or hear somewhere a media person of some type say that the glaciers aren’t really melting, they are actually gaining ice. Then I see blog posts repeating this false claim. How can people deny reality, when the glaciers are melting right in front of our eyes? (This is getting as bad as denying the moon landing.) The fact is that glaciers, world-wide, are indeed melting, and it’s not due to natural “cycles” or sun activity, it’s due to global warming caused by us.  Also, read more about George Will’s latest disinformation below.  (Click on the photo for the video to start).

*Video: national geographic glaciers melting january 2010

From National Geographic.

While the glaciers melt, the politicians are still trying to find a way to talk to each other without the demands and recriminations.

NEW DELHI: With an eye on the climate change conference in Mexico, [next December] the BASIC countries are considering ways to mend fences with the small island states and less developed countries. At the BASIC meeting to be held this week, India is likely to put forward a proposal for a fund to help vulnerable countries to deal with the effects of climate change.

The BASIC meeting in New Delhi will focus on post-Copenhagen scenario. With the group—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—now focusing on climate change negotiations leading to the conference at Mexico, it will need to work out ways in which it can make common cause with the rest of the developing bloc. There has been a sense that in Copenhagen, the emerging economies or the more advanced developing countries had broken ranks with the G-77. For the BASIC to retain its negotiating strength it will need to reach out to the vulnerable countries in the developing group.

The fund could serve this purpose. “The details of the fund are still being worked out,” a senior ministry official said. The proposed fund will be bilateral in nature and not under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. The fund is unlikely to be a formal set up as that would require setting up of structures. Instead each of the four countries—Brazil, South Africa, India and China—will co-ordinate their climate related aid to vulnerable countries.   Source

Why do China and for that matter, the U.S., even bother pretending they are interested in climate change?  I have lost my patience with these politicians and "negotiators".   They don't care about the future of the livability of the planet -- it's politics, the next election, jobs and low cost energy that they are concerned with. Climate change has always been secondary to not only developing countries but to the most-developed "developing" countries too. Look at the use of coal in China, with no end in sight.  To the tiny nation of the Maldives it's the opposite -- climate change [...]