# So who can answer Jerry Pournelle's questions about Global Warming?

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> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#):
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> Can anyone here refute his skepticism?

Sure:

[Jacobshavn Glacier Retreating](http://www.nasaimages.org/luna/servlet/detail/NSVS~3~3~14295~114295:Jakobshavn-Glacier-Calving-Front-Re)

[A bunch of glaciers retreating.](http://www.nichols.edu/departments/glacier/bill.htm)

[Athabasca glacier retreating.](http://ipy.nasa.gov/multimedia/m000000/m000000/m000033/index.html)

[McCarty Glacier.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/geol370/images/04_mccarty_glacier.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/lemke/geol370/lecture_notes/04_glacial_mass_balance.html&usg=__Y2bNS6xNs99mR_p_YnYqYetSr_c=&h=704&w=996&sz=113&hl=en&start=43&sig2=aWu-Hbj_0cAG27Yx7TJ26w&zoom=1&tbnid=RN59SvTbIWftKM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=177&ei=gX20TKD4KNOfnQeV85j_BA&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dglaciers%2Bretreating%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1680%26bih%3D899%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C1140&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=315&vpy=358&dur=64&hovh=189&hovw=267&tx=149&ty=96&oei=OHy0TKfQHMfCnAfgqf3-BA&esq=5&page=2&ndsp=41&ved=1t:429,r:34,s:43&biw=1680&bih=899)

[Nunavut Glacier](http://nsidc.org/glaciers/gallery/retreat_nv.html)

[Retreating glaciers in Bhutan (Himalayas)](http://nsidc.org/glaciers/gallery/aster_bhutan_rtr.html)

[Franz Josef Glacier](http://nsidc.org/glaciers/gallery/FJ1964.html)

[Polar Ice Cap](http://www.keepwintercool.org/earthimage.html)

We can do the above all day. This is happening in almost every case wherever you look in the world.

If this is not the earth getting warmer is there another explanation?

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