  Climate change  When glaciers start moving  Tortuous UN talks
on global warming receive some jolts  See article  Readers'
comments     Science: The world is getting hotter and drier.
We're in the middle of what's called an interglacial
period...basically, the world has been alternating between
warmer periods and colder periods for tens of thousands of
years. We only have about 50 years worth of direct observations
which is not enough to get a solid trendline on what is going
on. We have historical records from ice cores etc that help us
interpret what things looked like in the ancient past. As it
stands, the world is getting warmer and the oceans are rising as
they have been for tens of thousands of years and will continue
to rise and it will continue to get hotter until this
interglacial ends in 45,000 to 50,000 years. It's a fairly new
science. Climate Change is a normal part of earth's evolution.
Some changes will be good for us and some will be terrible for
us.  Human effects: The release of carbon diox