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On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:14 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > Paula wrote: >> Mark, I was being generous. I was assuming Lester Brown wrote his >> article (the most recent one of the three that Darrell passed on) >> before he heard about 'glaciergate'. Otherwise I find it difficult to >> believe that he would have included the following paragraph >> [highlighting mine]: >> >> "The glaciers in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau make up the >> largest body of ice outside the poles and provide water to Asia's >> major river systems, which supply water to over 2 billion people. >> This water is vital for drinking and for irrigating the wheat and >> rice crops in China and India, the largest in the world. In recent >> years, Himalayan glaciers have been retreating at rates ranging from >> 10 to 60 meters per year. As the glaciers disappear, the dry-season >> flows of river systems that depend on them may decrease by up to 70 >> percent, making them seasonal rivers. River systems at risk include >> the Yangtze, Yellow, Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra." There was a paragraph in the report that those glaciers would disappear by 2030. It was mistaken and nobody disagrees about that. Yet Paula gets her knickers in a twist denouncing Lester Brown for making the perfectly accurate statement that "In recent years, Himalayan glaciers have been retreating at rates ranging from 10 to 60 meters per year." Before Paula says another word on the subject she should be compelled to go to India or Tibet or Nepal or Bhutan and ask the people living at the foot of the glacier to show her where the glacier was ten years ago and where it is today. Shane Mage "L'après-vie, c'est une auberge espagnole. L'on n'y trouve que ce qu'on a apporté." Bardo Thodol ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
