"The Message from the Glaciers"

The May 27, 2010, issue of The New York Review of Books contains an article by Orville Schell that will remind the Glenn Fellows of Dessler and Parson's The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change. Here's the message that Schell hears from Earth's melting glaciers:

There are many links in the chain of cause and effect that stretches from the melting glaciers of the Greater Himalayas to the Indian or Chinese peasant who relies on the waters of the Ganges or the Yellow River to survive. And many more studies should be undertaken to scientifically clarify all these links. But there is already enough information for the world to know that we confront a very dangerous prospect, with no adequate effort underway to find the missing link between the knowledge we already have and action.