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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."
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...in the submission last week (that was squelched). The Sun is getting hotter...you know, like these things do right before they blow?
Nothing to do with humans munging global warming. BTW, that article on the Sun getting ready to heave said we have 6 years left.
And, I suppose that excessive greenhouse emissions from highly-industrialized East Africa are to blame this time.
Ice is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Ice community when last month Yahoo News confirmed that Ice accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all states of water. Coming on the heels of the latest Yahoo News story which plainly states that Ice has lost more mountains, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Ice is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent "will it live through fire" test.
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... or you might forever miss the chance to go to africa to see real snow.
At the end of the ice age did people worry about global warming? And, before the ice age, did people worry about global cooling? In any event, were these events catestophic... could we exist today without these events?
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The reason I ask is because i found out two days ago that I have gained 4 pounds since the beginning of the semester -- thanks to a core requirment/class... now, my weight is generally a fairly stable thing in my mind, and i wouldn't have even noticed... back on the farm at home, i'm sure that i will probabbly loose those pounds...
now, if you can see the relation, good, if not, too bad
seems to me that if ice wants to melt after a few million years of being frozen, all the more power to it. I wish the ice in my fridge would stay frozen for that long when i'm sipping my frosted mug of root beer......
Point of View is Everything, and Period Three Equals Chaos -- now, on to the real question, how to control the uncontrollable.
Who cares about the ice melting when there may be dangerous levels of DHMO on the top of that mountain! Maybe we would be safer if it did melt.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
it is feared that the loss of the ice cap will also cause a drop off in tourism
They'll come running back to high ground when the polar ice caps start melting.
No sig to see here. Move along.
If we just need to turn the heat down a little, a couple of nukes ought to do the trick. Carl Sagan's nuclear winter fears (which I'm pretty sure predate the global warming hysteria) were also talking about a few degrees of temperature change, but the other direction.
I'm sure once things get a little bit hotter our world leaders will start to get testy and things will work themselves out like always.
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Perhaps as the ice caps on the peaks of Mount Kilimanjaros melt, some traces of last years' expeditions to build a bridge between the two peaks will be found.
(There isn't a BoMP on Slashdots, is there?)
Maybe if each participant in the conga line of tourists walking to the top of the mountain would carry up a block of ice...
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In a far reaching manuever, the UN has voted to ban CO2 emmisions from all sources. Scientists have been given 5 years to find a replacement gas for exhalation by humans and other living creatures.
Dr. Ivan Onlyinhale says this should not be to much of a problem. "If nothing else, the sanctions that will be imposed if we don't find a replacement gas for exhalation will solve our population explosion".
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