I was dumbfounded by the quote: "scientific experts" on the show. Nothing but a bunch of thrill seekers that found a way to have a great vacation with Discovery picking up the tab. Mountain Climbing, Ultralight Flying, White Water Rafting,All expense trip to Alaska etc.. From the climber that stated he would not stop climbing until he reached bottom of the glaciers moulin which obviously was hundreds of feet with his fifty feet of line, the "discovery" that there was "flowing water between the glacier and its bedrock proves Global Warming is happening" yet http://earthobservatory.nasa.g...om/view.php?id=31613 Another "Scientist" conclusion: "lack of sediment in the glaciers runoff water proves Global Warming is happening", still another idiot statement from Expedition Alaska: "Average Temp in Alaska up 6-degrees in a year and average water temp up 9 degrees". I was surprised when they showed the 100 year old Glacier picture and a current picture from the same location at how little melting there was, when you are dealing with a continent what's a mile of ice in the length of a glacier in a 100 years? How about the absolute fool "Scientist(s)" that flip over a Kayak to collect suspected methane or as one scientist called it: "me-thane" bubbles from the sea floor or how about the shear environmental stupidity of pouring a flammable liquid (?) on the virgin tundra of Alaska and making a fuse to a plastic bag of methane to demonstrate that the gas burns.

Most disturbing was the constant acknowledgment by the LOL "scientists" that sea level rises were everyday occurrences --- I've lived in Florida and been a boater/live on the same tidal area for over thirty-plus years, yet the tide extremes are the same as they have been. While at it can I throw out "How come EVERY THING that occurs from Global Warming is bad for every animal, plant or human?
There was a complete lack of scientific analysis and conclusions. A bunch of junior high school students could have made better cases. Of course said students don't count on their "gloom and doom" findings to keep their jobs going. I loved the "Oh - I need to comeback for further study next year"

the "traulers" that collect fish and everything else when they are out, how about getting together with them or something like that, to clean up the "garbage pool's " that are floating out in our major waters? I hear some are the size of Texas, but if it was done in little steps, anything can be accomplished. sincerly Vivian Rabiscah

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........ Of course said students don't count on their "gloom and doom" findings to keep their jobs going. I loved the "Oh - I need to comeback for further study next year"

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Let me give one small example of how humans are wrecking themselves along with their home planet. Let's use a bumble bee. On it's life cycle, a bumble bee will become mature, and once mature, it will look for the flower. And these flowers don't germinate themselves, but need the help of "The Bumble bee". This bee doesn't even know that it's doing a good thing by multiplying another species, which have an effect, say of a most beautiful colors and at the same time, these plants help reduce co2. But humans are so smart, that we don't need the bumble bee for us to live on ourselves, to maintain ourselves. What we do not know, is that we are destroying the habitat this bumble might have lived on, by just expanding. We have subdivisions, and we have community plans and zoning bylaws in order for us to grow and develop in an organized and professional manner. Without considering the bumble bee, we destroy it's home. That area should have been brighter, and smelled a little better, but now it is gravel, or a house, so someone equal to us, humans, who might be a dropout of school can live in a warm bed with a roof above his head. With humans overpopulating and some species, that do negative impacts on our soils, I think humans have to start prioritizing their goals as a whole, to reflect this reality.