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Mountain Moisture Melting

Posted by michael on from the daddy,-tell-me-about-snow-again dept.

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."

3 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Take a break, Michael by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod parent up! Micheal has been getting very bizarre lately

  2. Re:Conservat-tives? Hel-lo-o? by ++good-duckspeak · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Sounds good. Do you want to be on the shag carpet collecting comitee (SCCC) or the Canadian Elephant Working Group (CEWG) ?

    Better make it the CEWG. The phrase "shag carpet collecting comitee" makes me think of Lilith Fair for some reason. And that just makes me feel funny.

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    Why is Triangle Man so MEAN?
  3. Another Damn Liberal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You prb'bly think this Post is about you
    But it's not...
    Although the governments are practicing up on weather
    control we also have a condition of hi energy flux coming
    from the sun.I heard the Npr program just today. The ice
    cores indicate this is not the first time we've had such problems
    Usually the episodes are hundreds of years apart.This
    generation hit the jackpot.
    What we need is for the population to paint the the black
    roofs of America ,white.
    Speaking of stupid godamned ideas yah heah, That
    Harvard carpetbagger Mayor Bloomberg has made a number of
    streets.Concentration camps.You get on at 60 & second on the
    east side you can't get off til the west side. Now this guy
    never took queing theory but he feels capable of destroying
    traffic flow during the christmas season . good bye Macys' .If the P(x)
    of negotiating a block in NY ii 30 sec is 0.8 Negotiating a desfile 5 blocks
    long is 0.262etc . This snowballs until you've got gridlock until
    2300hrs.when the majority migation is reversed.
    We've lost at least 1000 firemen .The remaining men are picking
    up the work w/o even a pay raise. He wants to see how many times
    men better than him can march into hel in a day before they break.
    When we have 9-11 part ii he won't have Bin Laden to blame.
    Feeling competitive, take up golf.

    SPQR