Global Warming Blamed for Melting Everest Glacier

Ferrous Wheel

Ferrous Wheel

Joined
May 16, 2002
Messages
4,437
GENEVA (Reuters) - A glacier from which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay set out to conquer Mount Everest nearly 50 years ago has retreated three miles up the mountain due to global warming, a U.N. body says.

A team of climbers, backed by the United Nations (news - web sites) Environment Program (UNEP), reported after their two-week visit last month that the impact of rising temperatures was everywhere to be seen.

The landscape bears the scars of sudden glacial retreat, while glacial lakes are swollen by melted ice, UNEP spokesman Michael Williams told Reuters on Thursday.

During their visit, the team of climbers from the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) spoke to the head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Tashi Jangbu Sherpa, who told them that the ice fields had seen rapid change over the past 20 years....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020606/sc_nm/environment_everest_dc_1

Keith
 
No. Sorry. It was me. Those break-away iceshelves in Antarctica? Me again. The watery pole? Sorry.
I don't know what it is. The raw cauliflower I think. At least it keeps my tent warm.
I'm really, really sorry. :D
 
so it was you bustin' the Roos ice shelf up so bad? I'm just glad you weren't near open flame, that woulda really got that global warming going in a hurry! heehe!

Keith
 
Originally posted by BruiseLeee
Those UN folks got their unelected lefty fingers everywhere.
Click to expand...
NOT TRUE!!!
:eek: :mad: What kind of guy do you think I am!!??
:D
 
I heard on NPR last evening that a lake now exists in Nepal that wasn't there previously. Seems the lake was formed by glacial melt, and current concern is that it may overflow and flood the valley below.

That would take an awful lot of raw cauliflower:eek:
 
Well, I get really really hungry.
BTW, those weren't really mudslides. :)
 
Now that I've had my second cup of coffee I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.
 
This is good...what's the name of the mountain in Turkey where there is some kind of structure and many say it is Noah's ark? If the glacier recedes maybe we'll get a look at it. Rebels supposedly hide in it and call it the Great Ship or something...

munk
 
...

...


...(waiting for this thread to get to the part about bears...)

...Yvsa? you here yet?
 
The bears may be displaced by the flooding. Polar bears may have to become "Tropical" bears - they are even drinking Coca Cola.

Yikes! Will everyone please panic and run around in circles. There that's better, that's the way the UN likes it. :rolleyes:

n2s
 
Originally posted by munk
This is good...what's the name of the mountain in Turkey where there is some kind of structure and many say it is Noah's ark? If the glacier recedes maybe we'll get a look at it. Rebels supposedly hide in it and call it the Great Ship or something...

munk
Click to expand...
If the galciers keep melting they may hope it still floats. I bet Colorado could use some of that melt right about now.
 
Ask people in Northern Alaska and Northern Canada if the winters are warmer in the last 15 years , permafrost is melting etc.

Something is going on :eek:
 
There seems to be some kind of climactic shift occuring, but the question remains as to whether it's caused by man-made factors, or if it's just part of the natural long term cycle.

The man-made factor camp may have some ammo in the suddeness with which it's occuring, but I don't know if we'll ever know for sure.
 
I have to state that mankind tends to inflate his importance on the planet. There are big things afoot, but we live such a short span that we never quite get ahold of certain huge cycles.

I don't think we could destroy the earth with nukes, for example, not even if you dropped all that there are in on plce would you even be able to penetrate the 10-20 miles of crust. You would most likely succeed in killing all surface dwellers, tho, which would pretty much make insects the dominant life form.

Another example is forest fires. controlled fires that destroy only small brush may be a natural cycle. Makes good soil for the next plants, doesn't harm very big old trees.

Also, Having been to the Bahama Islands, which are nothing more than ancient coral reefs that are now above water, one must assume that the water level was much higher at one point.

We may just be on the cusp of another change, where there is more water and the polar caps are smaller.


My .02

Keith
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top