Do you suppose that phlogistine is considered a greenhouse gas?
This is hilarious. Newspeople, lawyers, presidential advisors, and agenda-driven psuedo-scientists need to restrain their natural impulse to pontificate on matters scientific.
"Everest Melting? High Signs of Climate Change"
Stentor Danielson
National Geographic News
June 5, 2002
A team sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has found signs that the landscape of Mount Everest has changed significantly since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first conquered the peak in 1953. A primary cause is the warming global climate. But the growing impact of tourism is also taxing the world's highest mountain.
The team found that the glacier that once came close to Hillary and Norgay's first camp has retreated three miles (five kilometers). A series of ponds that used to be near Island Peak—so-called because it was then an island in a sea of ice—had merged into a long lake.
"It is clear that global warming is emerging as one, if not the, biggest threat to mountain areas," says Roger Payne, sports and development director at the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA), and one of the expedition's leaders. "The evidence of climate change was all around us, from huge scars gouged in the landscapes by sudden, glacial floods to the lakes swollen by melting glaciers. But it is the observations of some of the people we met, many of whom have lived in the area all their lives, that really hit home," he said in a statement released by UNEP.
The expedition, made up of seven people, climbed Island Peak before returning to its headquarters in Kathmandu on Saturday.