I looked on worldview of global warming.com and I decided to focus on the glaciers, because I have spent a lot of time in Glacier National Park in Montana. I frequent the National Geographic site almost every day and their estimate of the glaciers disappearing in Glacier is 2030.
My mom told me the other day that it is now projected at 2015 or 2020, but she also told me in December 2009 that "the recession is over." Simply because she heard some turkey say it on the radio. So when she brings up this global warming/climate change stuff I have to go to the sites to get the perspective of the writers and scientists.
The pictures on this site are shocking because they are real.
http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/glaciers.html
Before An Inconvenient Truth, a buddy of mine went with his dad to hear Al Gore speak in St. Paul. He came to my house going on and on about the future of the planet and to be honest I didn't take him seriously because I didn't believe the MPLS/St. Paul would have to be evacuated when the ice caps melt.
I know Global Warming is real, but I think that there is so much hype around it that people, scientists or not, make the ice caps melting seem like it is coming faster than it is. This ideology they push for agency to create a global consensus that their needs to be carbon reduction pacts by countries such as the US, China, etc.
I believe the hype is a good thing because it raises awareness through out the world. Many people, not all, are thinking about their carbon footprint. Isn't that the type of world we want to see our children grow up in? A world united in a common cause to save the planet for our grandchildren and so on?
I met and interviewed Will Steger in January and I trust him. He has the most experience at the North Pole. He said the main mission for the rest of his career was to focus on climate change to improve the future of our planet. I subscribe to his belief that so many things need to be done to save our planet.
I know that we have to take this problem our planet faces seriously. We do have to push for a better future.
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I was interested in the phrase "these pictures are shocking because they are real". It reminded me a little of the "footnotes are real" comment by Crichton (though yours is obviously obnoxious). It seemed to be based in the same idea that there is something objective about the world or thought or whatever. I think this is especially interesting with pictures, because it's something most people never consider. "It's a picture, you can't fake it (well, you can, but pretend you can't), this is what it actually looks like, it is the truth". But everything about the picture is meant to send us a message–the angle at which it's taken, the lighting, the fact boxes next to the pictures. A picture is not "the way something is" but "an interpretation of the way something is". It is how someone sees the world through a cultural lens (in this case literally through a lens as well. Pictures are representations, just like words and phrases and and and. What makes photographs and videos so powerful is (partially) we forget that they are always representations.
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