{"id":2501,"date":"2009-02-04T15:47:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2009-02-04T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T14:49:05","slug":"perito-moreno-the-renegade-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"Perito Moreno, the renegade glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I visited the Perito Moreno glacier in the Argentine Patagonia in 1987 and was shocked at the beauty of the place. As I frequently read that glaciers were disappearing I thought that I could tell my kids as they grow up “I was around when glaciers still existed”. But now I see that I OD on Gore cause the story seems to be more complicated than this. According to a recent study<\/a> Perito Moreno is not only shrinking but it\u00b4s growing at a rate of 3 meters a day! Knowing that my rabid eco readers cannot spit at me as they did to Arrington <\/a>, at least not as they read this, I am going to risk a comment here. I travel the world and the only places that I have seen that humanity had made quasi inhabitable where Kathmandu and Beijing and that was because of the worst pollution that I have ever experienced. I don\u00b4t doubt that we are throwing the most pollution to the atmosphere than we ever did. What I doubt is that we truly know what the consequences of doing this are and especially if they are all bad. Since most land mass is in cold places namely Canada, Greenland and Russia, is it all bad if we do experience some global warming? Can\u00b4t biomass increase? Can\u00b4t we migrate as we have historically done to formerly colder places should sea level rise? I have no doubt that some consequences of global warming will be bad, but maybe because I am an absurdly optimistic person I can also see how some maybe good. <\/p>\n

It\u00b4s ok if you spit at your screen now, I know my comments can be disgusting to some. And btw, do visit Perito Moreno, who knows, maybe this magnificent glacier first grows first and then disappears.<\/p>\n

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Image by Marina & Enrique via Flickr I visited the Perito Moreno glacier in the Argentine Patagonia in 1987 and was shocked at the beauty of the place. As I frequently read that glaciers were disappearing I thought that I could tell my kids as they grow up “I was around when glaciers still existed”. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t