Posted on 05/14/2013 2:41:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Earth's global thaw has reached Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, researchers said today (May 14) at the Meeting of the Americas in Cancun, Mexico.
Glaciers in the Mount Everest region have shrunk by 13 percent in the last 50 years and the snowline has shifted upward by 590 feet (180 meters), Sudeep Thakuri, a graduate student at the University of Milan in Italy, said in a statement. Located in the Himalaya Mountains on the border between China and Nepal, Everest's summit is 29,029 feet (8,848 m) above sea level.
Thakuri and his colleagues tracked changes to glaciers, temperatures and precipitation at Everest and the surrounding Sagarmatha National Park. There, glaciers have retreated an average of 1,300 feet (400 m) since 1962, the team found. More recently, precipitation (both snow and rain) has dropped by 3.9 inches (100 millimeters) and temperatures have risen 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) since 1992.
The researchers suspect that the glacial melting in the Everest region is due to global warming, but they have not yet established a firm connection between the mountains' changes and climate change, Thakuri said in the statement.
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That RATS REAREND Head of the IPCC scam was the last one to suggest the glaziers were melting abnormally fast in the Himalayas. That assertion like all the AGW assertions proved totally false.
Meanwhile, we have been having one of the coldest “springs” ever on record here in Alaska. Every long timer (sourdoughs) I know has said the same thing. They have never seen weather like this in their life.
ou realize that if you could cut Everest off at the sea level base and drop it in the Maraiana Trench it would still be 7040 feet underwater?
I disagree. It may not be your idea of success, but I suspect that to a lot of people who summit -- or who even ATTEMPT the summit -- it proves something to themselves.
We all have boundaries. Some of us try to push them. Others are content to live within them. To each his own ...
Mo money, mo money, mo money.
Thanks for the update! We sail for alaska the end of the month, looks like warm coats and galoshes are in order.. we usually visit late summer.. oh vell.
So how much can we sell Everest water for? Who do you have to pay off in Nepal and the UN to get the monopoly?
Set aside your ice axes and crampons, take extra chocks.
I hope it’s warm by then! I’m in Fairbanks, but it’s been cold all over the state!
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