trip to alaska

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The wife and I went on a cruise on our ten year wedding
anniversary and that is where I have been for the last week.

Several things of interest to report.
First of all, we went on a tour that went
by a lot of glaciers. And each time, the deck report
went like this,

"we are now passing the … glacier, discovered in 18…
by …, this glacier is … wide and … deep and … long,
this glacier has receded since it was discovered. What we see today
is the glacier having receded … number of miles from where
it was when discovered.

Every single glacier, every one, was reported this way.
Some on the Alaska mainland had a visitor center, and
when the visitor center was built, it had a view of the
glacier in question, but the glacier had receded so much,
the visitor center couldn’t even see the glacier any more.

One of the other things I can report is I saw very little wildlife
either on land or in the sea. I remember reading books about
Alaska in the early days and how the wildlife was every where.
You could look in any direction at any time and see wildlife,
and in 7 days on a cruise and we saw the tail of a whale once.

At one point, we were at a glacier that still reached the water,
and the cruise ship parked about a quarter mile away.
We, (the passengers)were standing at the side watching the
glacier, and the most noticeable thing about the glacier
(besides the size) is the noise. A piece of glacier breaking off
sounds like a cannon going off. At one point, I was replacing my
hearing aid battery, so my aid was off, and a piece broke off
the glacier and it still sounding really loud, even without my
hearing aid! The noise of a glacier is immpressive.
Well that’s all I can think of right now.
Of course after traveling all day yesterday, I can barely think
today anyway. Yesterday, woke up at 5:30 AM, off the ship by 6:30 AM and home by 8:30 PM last night. lONG DAY.

Anyway that is my report from alaska.

Kropotkin

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glad to hear you had a good trip!

-Imp

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thank you sir. Glad to be home.

Kropotkin

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Hi, Peter. Wondered where you’d been. Sounds like you had fun.

Noticed that you said some of these glaciers were discovered in the 18-somethings, and had been receding ever since. I guess global warming has been taking place for longer than the enviro-science lobby, um, I mean, than the wild-eyed greenies, er, um, I mean than the totally objective-and-not-dependent-on-government-funded-research scientific community has led us to believe.

Am currently in the process of being talked into a trip to Frisco instead of my planned UK trip. We’ll see what happens. Maybe Britain in the spring. If I go out there, would love to have a beer with you. Let me know some time wherabouts you live - to help me plan an itinerary. PM me.

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From what I’ve been told, those glaciers nearer the hot equator (such as those in Alaska, compared to the poles) are receding, but this is exactly what you’d expect, and that the ice thickness at the poles is actually increasing, so the total volume of ice isn’t really changing.

This could be wrong, but it would make perfect sense to me that the enviro-communists would only focus on one aspect of the whole process.

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someoneisatthedoor: From what I’ve been told, those glaciers nearer the hot equator (such as those in Alaska, compared to the poles) are receding, but this is exactly what you’d expect, and that the ice thickness at the poles is actually increasing, so the total volume of ice isn’t really changing.

K: actually this is wrong. the total ice thickness is shrinking.
This is part of the right wing lies to mislead people.
The theory of ice shrinkage does say that the ice sheet
in the middle will grow but the total does shrink.
Some scientist who is the leading expert in glaciers
develop the theory which is the leading theory in
global warming. It is not about the closeness to the pole,
but the ice sheet itself. the theory is rather complicated
and I only know its very basic parts. Greenland one of the
key area’s of global warming. That is the place to watch and
Greenland is changing before our very eyes.

Kropotkin

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Yeah, I agree with Siatd’s sentiments. I’m really not sure as to how real a threat this whole global warming thing is.

Gore is just too high profile for something like this. For him to spearhead this movie he must have been entrusted with the task for some reason or another by the elites. ‘An inconvenient Truth’ may be inconvenient, but it also may not even be true.

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Hello F(r)iends,

Kropotkin, do Eskimos really exist at the end of the Rainbow?
What was the weather like?
How much sunshine did you get?
Any rain or snow?

Come on, coff it up…

-Thirst

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thirst4metal: Hello F(r)iends,
Kropotkin, do Eskimos really exist at the end of the Rainbow?
What was the weather like?
How much sunshine did you get?
Any rain or snow?
Come on, coff it up…"

K: coff, coff, uh, did not see any Eskimos or rainbow for
that matter. Sailed up the inside passage from
Vancouver to Whitter Alaska, which includes
Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan, and took a bus to
Anchorage Alaska. Sunny and warm in Vancouver,
as we went north the weather cooled off and got
very cloudy/foggy. It was dam cold in front of
the glaciers. In anchorage was cool and cloudy.
Didn’t see much sun the last 3 days of a 7 day trip.

The money shot was the best view I have ever seen.
Leaving Juneau heading out toward the sea in a inlet,
a row of snow capped mountains at 10:30 at night with
enough light to see them and in front a long row of cruise
ships as far as the eye can see also heading out from Juneau,
I saw 6 large cruise ships in a row heading out, all lit up.
I wish I had a real camera instead of a cheap digital camera.

Kropotkin

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Hello F(r)iends,

When will we get pictures?

-Thirst