July 18, 2010
Receding Himalayan Glaciers
The NYT Lens Blog has an interesting series on major glaciers in Asia, specifically in the Himalayas. The photos depict the level of recession these glaciers have experienced over the course of a century:
There’s a lot of people who either don’t understand climate change that well and the effects that it’s having, or they want to deny the effect it’s having. These pictures are worth a thousand words. We haven’t done anything to them except print them.
This, it seems to me, is the best form of evidence. People love before and after pictures.
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Yes, before and after pictures are compelling–but anymore people just snatch up readymade arguments like: How do we know this hasn’t happened many times in the past as part of a natural cycle? Of course there is no thought being applied to any aspect of such a non-argument–it’s just an app feed. They don’t even want to wait for an actual answer to such a question.