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Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012'
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| February 16, 2007
| Mark Henderson
Posted on 02/16/2007 6:08:30 AM PST by Abathar
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Do they really think we are that stupid to fall for this? The snows of Kilimanjaro are drying up, not melting because the people living on the mountain have slash/burned the entire jungle at its base. All the moisture and humidity is gone from the lowlands around the mountain, so there isn't any water vapor to turn to snow and deposit itself on the mountaintop. They KNOW this is a local event caused completely by changes to the land around the mountain, and yet they try and blame GLOBAL warming for it.
In the Andes they are getting more snow than usual, theories are that the snow is insulating the ice and not allowing it to freeze as deep as it normally would. This again points to percipitation as the main cause, not temperatures. Due to the fact that these things are cyclic, over hundreds of years, (a blink of the eye to the earth) and that there are places where the exact opposite is happeneing this is not a global event but just a local event caused by normal weather patterns.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:08:32 AM PST
by
Abathar
To: Abathar
If it melts, it will be the "Not So Great Andean Glacier", right?
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:12:31 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: Abathar
Alll that lovely freshwater - they better build a resevoir and some aquaducts to catch as much of it as possible!.
To: irishtenor
To: irishtenor
To: Abathar
The principal glacier of the worlds biggest tropical ice-cap could disappear within five years as a result of global warming, one of the worlds leading glaciologists predicted yesterday.
This is supposed to be a bad thing?
HELLLO! We're still coming out of the last ice age, this is what happenes when ice ages end.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:15:15 AM PST
by
Valin
(History takes time. It is not an instant thing.)
To: Abathar
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:15:34 AM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: Little Ray
I call it the 'snowman theory' . Up here in wisconsin we build snowmen. When the weather warms, they start to melt. As they get smaller, they melt faster. It has nothing to do with global warming, rather it is there is less mass of snow to maintain the cold, so as it shrinks, it melts faster.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:16:53 AM PST
by
milwguy
To: Abathar
Good. Damn thing had it comin'. =)
It killed my father, and beat my mother!
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:17:21 AM PST
by
EarthBound
(Ex Deo, gratia. Ex astris, scientia (Duncan Hunter in 2008! http://www.gohunter08.com))
To: Abathar
Good, only if that means the right and left coasts of the U.S. go underwater. That would "kill" the democrat base and the survivors would have to live in "fly over country" and be confronted with reality and de-programmed by their new friends and neighbors.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:17:52 AM PST
by
word_warrior_bob
(You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
To: Abathar
I have driven an SUV since the early 70's ~~~~~sob~~~~~~~~ I feel so guilty.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:18:13 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: HHKrepublican_2
Maybe its not melting, maybe they are chopping it up into icecubes to cool off due to the GLOBAL WARMING.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:19:53 AM PST
by
irishtenor
(Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
To: Abathar
Finally! I cant wait to have the great Andean Valley back to normal.
To: Abathar
Lets see more fresh water and warmer climates..why is this a bad thing?
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:21:03 AM PST
by
svcw
(There is no plan B.)
To: Abathar
What's the big deal? So what if the glaciers melt? It's not like it's never happened before. Glaciers come and go as time marches on. The whole northern hemisphere was once covered by a glacier a mile thick!.............
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:23:48 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: Abathar
Save the Glaciers!
Send them a Ice Cube!
To: DainBramage
Finally! I cant wait to have the great Andean Valley back to normal. SHHHH!.....that's where Atlantis and the Space people live!.......
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:25:36 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
To: Abathar
Well! It sounds to me like South America is polluting itself and creating a problem in the Andes. What a bunch of BS.
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:26:11 AM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
To: Abathar
I wonder if those glaciers were there when Greenland was a lush farming area inhabited by the Vikings between 1000 & 1300 AD? Or did the glaciers come to the tropic with the mini-ice age that started in 1300?
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:26:45 AM PST
by
GreyFriar
( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
To: Cold Heat
Yeah, he'll fix it!........
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posted on
02/16/2007 6:27:18 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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