We keep reading stories that Bolivia depends on glaciers for their water supply. Given that Bolivia hardly has any glaciers and that the ones they have are very small, Evo should evacuate the country immediately.
It isn’t clear to me how a $5 Trillion tax will help them out.
According to some ex-alarmist sources
“Even if we stopped emitting all carbon dioxide tomorrow, completely shut up shop and went back to the Stone Age, according to the official government climate models it would be cooler in 2050 by about 0.015 degrees. But their models exaggerate 10-fold in fact our sacrifices would make the planet in 2050 a mere 0.0015 degrees cooler!”
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/04/07/climate-models-go-cold/
We Americans need to keep sending our non-existent wealth to poor countries to fight non-existent global warming, climate change, or whatever. Even if the money ends up in some dictator’s hands, it still makes us feel so good to be the savior of mankind!
I’m not feeling so good, Andy. Not at all. It feels more like a shakedown.
Of course, a glacier in equilibrium (which is supposed to be a “good thing”, I gather) contributes nothing to the water supply.
There’s a huge amount of confusion, deliberately created or not, between non-glacial annual snowmelt, which is vital for water supply in many places, and the net melt of long-term glacial ice, which is not.
Isn’t Bolivia the country of neat hats? I like neat hats.
Bolivia’s water problems are mostly political, imo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochabamba_protests_of_2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Bolivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources_management_in_Bolivia