Nope. Let the Europeans do it. Then, try to piggyback on their research. I'm just proud enough of our own scientists (and confident in their abilities) to think that this project really ought to be based here at home. Not outsourced overseas... (Word of warning - you're gonna run into a few expletives. Be prepared for an angry blogger!)
There is no global warming as long as we can't see it! Heck, lets cut the funding to the satellites NOAA uses for the weather, and the few left? Tell them they can only track weather, not be used to track climate change or ice caps melting! A bazillion bucks for war, none left to save the [...]
And, "why", some of you will ask, should this big a big issue? Because "stuff" like this is happening.
...As we drove – and gazed – we learned why it was all so stark and treeless. "What we just drove over used to be part of the glacier," explained our 22-year-old driver and guide, Jamie Bosom, who grew up near the icefield. "But you can see for yourself what has happened. This glacier, one of the world’s largest, is melting FAST." Very fast. Thirty years ago my brother-in-law says it took only several steps to WALK to the glacier’s edge. Now we had to take a bus ride [...]
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