Scientist’s Himalayan mission provides unwelcome proof: glaciers are dying

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6945249.ece
Times reporter joins climate change scientist on a trek to measure just how fast the ice in the Himalayas is disappearing

Inching over the treacherous surface of the Rathong glacier, almost 5,000 metres (16,400ft) high in the eastern Himalayas, Dr Shresth Tayal stooped to inspect a 7m steel rod he buried vertically in the ice six months ago.

After a decade studying Himalayan glaciers, he had expected to find at least half the rod exposed — an alarming enough indication of how fast the Rathong is melting — but even he was surprised by what he found last week.

“Six metres in six months,” he cried, breathing hard in the thin mountain air as The Times and the rest of his team stepped gingerly between hidden crevasses and gushing rivulets of freshly melted ice.

“It’s pathetic,” he said. “The glacier is dying.”

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1. "want developed nations to pledge 1.5 per cent of their earnings to protect the environment"

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.

What the fuck is giving them money going to do for that glacier?

If the developed nations fall for this bullshit, then we deserve to be fleeced.