Melting glaciers show climate change speeding up: UN, scientists

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Melting glaciers show climate change speeding up: UN, scientists

Mon Jan 29, 9:24 AM ET

GENEVA (AFP) - New data has shown that the melting of mountain glaciers worldwide is accelerating, a clear sign that climate change is also picking up, the UN environmental agency and scientists have said.

Thirty reference glaciers monitored by the Swiss-based World Glacier Monitoring Service lost about 66 centimetres (two feet) in thickness on average in 2005, the UN Environment Programme said in a statement Monday.

"The new data confirms the trend in accelerated loss during the past two and a half decades," it added.

The set of glaciers located around the world have thinned by about 10.5 metres (34.6 feet) on average since 1980, according to the data supplied by the Monitoring Service in Zurich.

They melted on average about 1.6 times faster annually this decade compared with the 1990s, and about six times faster than in the 1980s.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Impossible. I was just over at FreeRepublic and as one of the

resident intellectual heavyweights pointed out....it's cold out today so there can't be global warming.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Half-wits. It's all so sad.How can ANYONE be that slow?

That's what happens when they let right-wing special interests do their "thinking" for them.

[dysfunctional press]

2. faster, faster, pussycat....

i'll be 46 in two weeks, and i want to see florida submerged in my lifetime.

[Judi Lynn]

4. All the Florida wingers will go missing, as they'll refuse to admit global warming. n/t

[niceypoo]

10. Limbaughs house would be one of the first to go

bwahahaha

[roguevalley]

5. I live in southcentral alaska, down from Anchorage. My doors are

open and the snow is melting tonight. My roof snow is almost gone and the stuff around my house is melting into puddles. In January. In Alaska.

[NickB79]

7. Wow, that's amazing

Here in Minnesota every news channel is telling us to be careful this weekend, as we're gonna get a blast of arctic air and the high Saturday will only be 0F, with a low of -10F. So, yes, that is cold. But compared to what winters used to be like a decade or two ago when I was a little kid, it's nothing. We used to have at least a few days a winter with -20F to -30F temps fairly regularly, at least every other year. Those days are long gone, and we're "lucky" to see a -10F low now. It's like the Twin Cities just moved a few hundred miles south in a decade. I can grow species of plants here now that were nothing but pipe dreams a decade ago.

[CabalPowered]

13. That's not good.

At all. I was in Stanley, Idaho over the weekend which usually has 6-12' by now. There was maybe 2'. Cold as heck though. -25 at night and 0 at noon.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Thanks for the thread rodeodance

Kicked and recommended

[cosmicdot]

8. k

Eiffel Tower to go dark ahead of report

By ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago

PARIS - The Eiffel Tower's 20,000 flashing lights will go dark for five minutes Thursday evening, hours before scientists and officials unveil a long-awaited report on global warming.

The darkening of the landmark in the City of Light comes at the urging of environmental activists and is timed to coincide with Friday's release of the major report warning that Earth will keep getting warmer and presenting new evidence of humanity's role in climate change.

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symbolic of the world holding its breath in anticipation?

[hatrack]

9. Five minutes - super!

Symbolic of most of the world trying to act concerned - and not being very convincing at it.

[tkmorris]

11. It is not intended to be anything but a symbolic gesture

No one is claiming they are turning the lights off to save energy.

[RiverStone]

12. even more....

http://www.climatecrisis.net