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To: Road Walker who wrote (21848)	7/15/2010 10:06:16 AM
From: Eric	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

July 15, 2010, 7:22 am Then and Now: The Retreating Glaciers In 1921, George Mallory, a British mountaineer, took a black-and-white photograph of Mount Everest. The photo, now legendary, shows the world’s highest peak in the distance and an S-shaped river of ice running toward the foreground: the Rongbuk glacier. Three years ago, David Breashears, a mountaineer, photographer and filmmaker, returned to the very spot where Mr. Mallory stood to take the photograph and updated the vista. The change is sobering. Rather than ancient snow pack, only an empty rock-strewn riverbed remains: the glacier has lost 320 vertical feet of ice mass in the intervening years in what researchers describe as a striking effect of global warming. (Roll your cursor over the images to get a sharper sense of the contrast here.) On Tuesday, Asia Society opened an exhibition in Manhattan of a series of photographs by Mr. Breashears, who reshot many famous mountaineer photographs from earlier decades to illustrate just how swiftly the changes in the Earth’s atmosphere are taking a toll on glaciers. Glaciers play a crucial role in providing fresh water to Asian populations. “The snow and ice stored within the magnificent arc of high-altitude glaciers in the Greater Himalaya are crucial sources of seasonal water for almost every major river system of Asia,” the society says in materials promoting the exhibition. “If current melt rates continue, these glaciers will be unable to maintain mass balance, ultimately disrupting the water supply to hundreds of millions of people downstream.” The show runs through Aug. 15. Here’s a video in which Mr. Breashears describes his glacier research and photography. (click on link below to see story and watch the video) green.blogs.nytimes.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (21848)	7/15/2010 12:38:08 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

You're saying Salazar & Obama voted with the evil lobbyists? That 74% of all the Senate did. Basically if you don't like something it was illegitimate to begin with. only 26% stood up for what was right and probably lost a lot of contributions. As if there's no green lobby. ---------------------------------------- Here's some things the evil lobbyists wrote behind closed doors: ..... Under an amendment in The Recovery Act of 2009, Section 406, authorizes n guarantees for innovative technologies that avoid greenhouse gases, which might include advanced nuclear reactor designs (such as PBMR) as well as clean coal and renewable energy; Increases the amount of biofuel (usually ethanol) that must be mixed with gasoline sold in the United States to 4 billion gallons by 2006, 6.1 billion gallons by 2009 and 7.5 billion gallons by 2012;[1] ........ Authorizes subsidies for wind and other alternative energy producers; Adds ocean energy sources including wave and tidal power for the first time as separately identified, renewable technologies; Authorizes $50 million annually over the life of the law for biomass grants; Contains provisions aimed at making geothermal energy more competitive with fossil fuels in generating electricity; Requires the US Department of Energy to study and report on existing natural energy resources including wind, solar, waves and tides; Authorizes the Department of the Interior to grant leases for activity that involves the production, transportation or transmission of energy on Outer Continental Shelf lands from sources other than gas and oil (Section 388);[2] Requires the U.S. Department of Energy to study and report on national benefits of demand response and make a recommendation on achieving specific levels of benefits and encourages time-based pricing and other forms of demand response as a policy decision; Requires all public electric utilities to offer net metering on request to their customers; ..... Provides tax breaks for those making energy conservation improvements to their homes; ..... Requires that no drilling for gas or oil may be done in or underneath the Great Lakes; Requires that Federal Fleet vehicles capable of operating on alternative fuels be operated on these fuels exclusively (Section 701.) ..... Tax reductions by subject area $4.3 billion for nuclear power[9] $2.8 billion for fossil fuel production $2.7 billion to extend the renewable electricity production credit $1.6 billion in tax incentives for investments in clean coal facilities $1.3 billion for conservation and energy efficiency $1.3 billion for alternative motor vehicles and fuels (bioethanol, biomethane, liquified natural gas, propane) $500 million Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBS) for government agencies for renewable energy projects. ............ From wikipedia