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Photos 'show Himalayan glaciers receding'
AFP on Yahoo ^
| 7/16/10
| Sebastian Smith
Posted on 07/16/2010 2:11:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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A 1921 view taken by George Mallory of the Main Rongbuk Glacier (left), on the northern slope of Mount Everest and a 2007 view of the same glacier taken by David Breashears, courtesy of GlacierWorks. Decades of pollution and global warming appear to have left the glacier shrunken and withered. (AFP/Asia Society)
To: NormsRevenge
Looks about the same if not bigger to me......
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:12:33 PM PDT
by
IamCenny
To: NormsRevenge
Yep, those pesky glaciers have been retreating unabated ever since the last ice age. We just noticed the last 80 years’ worth.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:12:41 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: NormsRevenge
Are you kidding me? I don’t see any major differences between the two photos at all. What I do see are some minor differences in ice and snow coverage and some illusions created by black and white vs color, and by the difference in exposure (such as an area on the slope to the left that appears to be snow or ice in the 1921 photo, but which is actually just a difference in shading of the dirt or rock below it.
As far as the glacier, it actually looks wider today to me than it did in 1921. Am I missing something?
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:16:37 PM PDT
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
Seems to me that any ‘warmth’ would have affected the whole area. When you look at the outlines of the other areas -— they seem the same. What time of year were the first pics and what time the 2nd?
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:19:12 PM PDT
by
Exit148
(Loose Change Club Founder. Save your pennies for the next Freepathon. A little goes a long way!)
To: NormsRevenge
And the Abominable Snowman will have nowhere to go!
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:20:47 PM PDT
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Social Justice is the right to refuse to buy them the rope they want to hang you with.)
To: IamCenny
The difference between a fresh hard snowfall and a summertime snow draught....this is just more bullshit ecoterrorist reporting.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:21:14 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: NormsRevenge
Were these shot at the same time of the year?
They were clearly not shot with the same type of gear or film.
The B&W shot was shot with orthochromatic film, which was not sensitive to all colors in the spectrum.
On top of that, the two photos were shot with different focal length lenses, with changes most evident in the foreground.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:21:29 PM PDT
by
MediaMole
To: NormsRevenge
In the 11th and 12th centuries, Vikings were living on the West coast of Greenland growing row crops and raising livestock outdoors. Seal and Walrus hunters ventured high into the Arctic in search of prey as late as October. Archaeological findings show Western explorers overwintered on the north coasts of Baffin Island and Hudson Bay.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:21:56 PM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
("What did the English ever give you? Muffins and a burnt White House. ")
To: NormsRevenge
Instead of the powerful, white, S-shaped sweep of ice witnessed by Mallory before he died on his conquest of Everest, the Main Rongbuk Glacier today is shrunken and withered. Proof! Proof! that we need to elect more Democrats. Don't delay, the fate of the entire solar system depends upon it.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:22:51 PM PDT
by
marron
To: NormsRevenge
Guess I'd better increase the output on my ice maker!
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:24:59 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
To: MediaMole
not sure of time of year taken or specific equipment. I just post ‘em, and only sometimes research them.. :-}
This thread is destined for the cheese file.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:25:38 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
To: noiseman
Well the mountains are much more bare.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:28:53 PM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: NormsRevenge
Yosemite Valley used to be full of ice fields and glaciers, but they are now all gone. Shame on the industrialists and polluters!
To: NormsRevenge
To: CholeraJoe; potlatch; ntnychik
SOMEONE'S IN HOT WATER
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:30:07 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I may have to see if we can resched our cruise next year from the Med back to Alaska again.. the Columbia Glacier is floating and receding too I hear. nothing like watching tons of ice calve and the kaaploooomp and watching seals nestling nearby bob in the wake on the chunks of ice..
Alaskan Glaciers
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:30:35 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
To: NormsRevenge
Were the pictures both taken at the same time of the year? Were the preceding snowy periods as heavy?
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:30:40 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Socialism is the philosophy of failure, - W Churchill)
To: CholeraJoe
"In the 11th and 12th centuries, Vikings were living on the West coast of Greenland growing row crops and raising livestock outdoors. Seal and Walrus hunters ventured high into the Arctic in search of prey as late as October. Archaeological findings show Western explorers overwintered on the north coasts of Baffin Island and Hudson Bay." Much to the chagrin of the French, brandy was first distilled in Ireland from Irish grapes.
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posted on
07/16/2010 2:31:14 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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