China fears Everest is shrinking

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By Louisa Lim
BBC News, Beijing


China is to re-measure the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, because of fears it may be shrinking.

A recent survey found the summit had dropped by 1.3 metres (4 ft) because of global warming.

The height of the mountain, which lies on the border between China and Nepal, has long been a subject of controversy.

It was first measured in the 1850s, but a more accurate Indian survey 100 years later calculated the mountain to be 8,848m tall.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4204539.stm

[Ripley]

1. Funny how there are lots of articles to be found on global warming

occurring, yet a DUer who insists there are piles of evidence that it is not happening cannot give me a single article link. Hmmmmmm.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. But it's growing

being pushed ever upward by the Indian plate subduction.

[jdonaldball]

3. It will be whatever size the Communist Party orders it to be.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I should think that as the glaciers melt, the lessened weight would

allow the mountain to rise faster.

[Oggy]

5. But as the ice on the lower reaches melts

there will be more bits falling off it.

[Moderator]

6. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1181397