Mountain Moisture Melting

felis_panthera writes "Yahoo! News has a Full Coverage story on how global warming is causing the ice cap atop Mt. Kilimanjaro to melt. It goes on to say that it has shrunk by 80% in the last century, and will probably be completely gone in another two decades. The ice cap is believed to have formed some eleven millenia ago. Some African rivers have already seen a decrease in volume, and it is feared that the loss of the ice cap will also cause a drop off in tourism."

Comments

Re:Conservat-tives? Hel-lo-o?

[Anonymous Coward]

The argument from the right is that humans just aren't capable of causing the massive changes being claimed.

Yeah, exactly. The entire idea that man can somehow affect their enviroment on such a scale is laughable! I mean, we can't build rivers, hold back seas and create lakes. Only nature can do that.

In case anyone doesn't get it, I'm being an ass. Man clearly can affect the enviroment, both directly and indirectly, and we do it in a big way The Suez Canal, the Netherlands, and the Chinese and Egyptian daming projects are all direct examples of changes that man has enacted. To try and claim that we as a species are incapable of changing our enviroment is short sighted and blinkered.

It's nothing we can't cure by...

[Black Parrot]

...bombing Iraq!

Re:Better coverage

[thales]

"I am tired of people throwing around examples and conjectures on the "natural" variation in planet-wide temperatures as a reason to not take a hard look at our own role."

You can't be as tired of those conjectures as I am of hearing Neo-Ludites attempting to use Global Warming as an excuse to implement thier agenda to "counter global warming". These are the same kinds of people who espoused radical forms of Socalism a generation ago, and who will seek new excuses to exert control over the world economy if reserach does show that Global Warming is a natural phenomia that humans had little if any part in.

The Causes and efects of Global Warming need to be researched, and if humans have played a major role in causing warming, and if the warming will have a major negative impact on the lives of future generations, then it's time to take action to check it.

The Idea of taking actions that will result in major changes in lifestyles in the present without assurances that it will result in an improved lifestyle for future generations is an absurdity. In the 20th Century the Socilal Planners created the nightmares in National Socalist Germany, In the Soviet Union, In China's Cultural Revoulation, and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. On a lesser scale they destroyed the hability of American Cities and created vast housing projects that quicly truned into drug and crime ridden hell holes. After the failures of the past Century the Social Planners are now trying to scare us into turning the world economy over to them to "stop" Global Warming.