My parents were just down in New Zealand for vacation. They went boating on a huge lake created from melted glaciers. The lake was surrounded by glaciers which were visibly melting and cracking before their very eyes.
This lake did not exist 20 years ago.

The notion that a few industrialized countries can stop climate change in its tracks by restricting their own economic activity is absurd on its face. We should focus on coping with change, not trying futilely to prevent it. Besides, given the unpredictability of climate change, there is no way of knowing if any such effort would help or hurt. What is certain is that it would be ruinous to the economies involved. And after all, that's the real purpose of the global warming hype.

Except in the area of sex, everything the left pushes for tends to reduce personal freedom and to increase the scope and power of government, which by right belongs to them.

I Wouldn't be surprised if the leftists were to blame the Bush administration for the certainty that our star, the sun, will burn up all its hydrogen in X number of billion years, taking planet Earth along with it in this last big burnout.

Much about physical nature are things we can do nothing about except to understand the processes a lot better. I suspect this holds true for periodic -- and repetitive cycles of planetary warming and cooling as expressed in ice ages and their antitheses.

Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI