[Lowell_Skoog]

Last May I joined John and Irene Meulemans and Gary Rose, backcountry skiers with more than fifty years experience each, on a day trip to Artist Point at Mt Baker. We were brought together by a production crew from KIRO-TV in Seattle working on a one-hour special about climate change in the Northwest. For a trip report about our outing, click here. KIRO-TV has now scheduled the program for Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 9pm on Channel 7 in Seattle. A short blurb about the program can be found on the KIRO-TV website here. I really don't know what the program will be like, but it should be interesting to see a local presentation of this subject. And there's a good chance the program will include a bit of ski touring as well.

[Backpacker Joe]

Nice to see you again Mr. Skoog. Good report.

[Lowell_Skoog]

Bump

[Scrooge]

Ummmm. ........ What channel is Kiro? (I don't watch a lot of TV)

[AR]

Can't wait to see what kind of trumped up poo poo they come up with.

[Scrooge]

Hey, man, you don't have to worry about what anybody says. Just wait a few years and you can experience it.

[AR]

[Riverside Laker]

arohwed, you have a great point. Too bad they didn't continue logging all the way up to the alpine zone, because we'd have much better views without all the trees. Shucks, in 1860 there were a lot fewer trees around these parts, so it's really a shame about them environmentalists ruining a perfectly good capitalistic system.

[Layback]

Hey Skoog - Saw the show. I thought it was great.

[Scrooge]

Good photography and lots of good points, but there was too much uncertainty. We're beyond the point of skeptics versus believers. KIRO would have performed a greater public service if it had not left its conclusions open ended.

[Layback]

I was on the Nisqually Glacier two weeks ago and saw what looked like a round PVC pipe sticking up in the air in a curved fashion making a semi-circle in the the snow. I thought that it had to be an old tent pole, swallowed up by the glacier and discarded. Now I know that it was a device for measuring glacier depth. Pretty cool.

[Mtn Dog]

I saw the show and was remarkably disappointed in KIRO's total lack of science on both sides of the issue. They totally ignored the exhaustive work of Singer & Avery on earth's natural 1,500 year warming and cooling cycle but highlighted the infamous and erroneous "hockey stick" graph of CO2 levels which was originally debunked by Canadian researchers McIntyre and McKitrick. They indicated that we need to reduce our carbon footprint but provide no evidence that doing so would have a real impact on global warming, especially given the fact that most of our power supply is already hydrocarbon free.

[Malachai Constant]

[CuriousJ]

I saw the show last night and it did seem to have the purpose of upsetting viewers rather than educating them. I was surprised, honestly, that KIRO presented such a paranoid point of view rather than being more balanced.

[Malachai Constant]