Climate Change – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

In an earlier post today I wrote on nuclear energy, I mentioned the average American’s lack of awareness of and interest in climate change.  And while there are a number of reasons for this, most of them political, one could be geographical.  Thus far, the principal effects of global warming have been at the extreme latitudes and in extreme altitudes.

Here’s a report from the New York Times on the melting of the Quelccaya ice cap in the Peruvian Andes – a formation that developed over a period of  1600 years, only to be melted away in the last 25.