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We all know Al Gore is a self-serving knucklehead. Here is a (cut-n-paste) review of some of the books out there. And some of the best I have read on this subject:
Embracing Our Ever-Changing Earth
By PETER PETTUS August 9, 2006
Not long ago, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman took a break from his analysis of world affairs and went to Machu Picchu in Peru to have a look at the Andes Mountains. According to his column filed that day, Mr. Friedman was troubled by what he saw. The mighty peaks surrounding Machu Picchu, once described in guide books as "snow capped," are now merely "snow frosted," he tells us. Not only is the snow disappearing from the mountains, but a whole cascade of calamities is now about to descend on this vulnerable mountain community. The giant white corn is getting smaller because "the water level is going down, and the temperature is going up." Precious and unique species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction because the boundaries between mountain climate zones are beginning to change. The very fabric of this community is unraveling and the culprit is global warming, the great ecological disaster that has now replaced the Population Explosion in the fevered imagination of the eco left.
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