[PROCON]

Great AGW scare title Ping!

[BenLurkin]

Was he writing his name in the snow when it started?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Ice melts. Who knew?

[21twelve]

Stupid place for a glacier anyways - 2 degrees from the equator and all. (I did some work at the mine across the valley from the glacier - snowed twice in the three months I was there!)

[Mr_Moonlight]

The glacier was literally melting under their feet.

Why BS ??? Any sane person standing within a 'melting' glacier probably wouldn't make it out of there alive. Something about instability of such a rapidly melting structure or some sort .. and of course there is all that slipping and falling into a ravine and such. I call BS on this 'observation'

[GladesGuru]

National Palisimian Radio steps in it again with this one: “If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul.”

Could be worse, they could be Democrats, who are about to lose their collective a$$es and control of DC.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Massive deforestation has been taking place around this mountain for decades. Deforestation is cited as a prime factor in the shrinking of the Mount Kilimanjaro glacier in Africa.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16031

[Psycho_Bunny]

"If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul."

......Hyperbole, as a Fine Art.

[Frantzie]

Glacier in Indonesia near the equator. LOL! Maybe they should be looking for The Imam’s BC in his Muslim home country of Indo.

[centurion316]

Glaciers ablate in the summer, especially equatorial ones. The question is do they replace those losses in the winter. A glacier is either advancing or retreating. Most glaciers have been in retreat since 1850 as the world has emerged from the little ice age. Ricky scientist knows this of course, but his next grant is contingent on how big a lie he can manage to tell.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Did he ever see snow fall?

[OneWingedShark]

...actually it makes sense that a glacier would melt more rapidly as it got smaller: volume/surface-area ratio is common in calculating/measuring heat-transfer.

Shouldn’t the question be more along the lines “does it come back at all?” I mean sometimes it shows in New Mexico or Arizona... but I have yet to see alarm raised because it melts.

[eclecticEel]

Who would guess that a glacier located in the tropics would have a limited lifespan?

[libertarian27]

"Rain is probably the most effective way to ... cause the ice to melt," Thompson says. "So this was the first time you could see the surface actually lowering around you."

Oh my gosh! This happens in my snow covered yard too when it rains in the spring - it lowers around me - next year I'm going to camp outside in a tent for a while and take ice core samples and store them in my beer fridge.

[sodpoodle]

There is a reason for *hotfooting it outta heah* when you have HOT FEET!!!

Probably wearing Costanza’s Goretex boots.

[FrankR]

1. Was he wearing a coat?

2. These globalwarming nuts have drilled for so many core samples to prove their dumb theories, they've created ventilating shafts throughout the glaciers, contributing to the melting.

3. Summer is not over quite yet.

[Longbow1969]

Losing the glacier wouldn't have much environmental impact for the local people, Thompson says, but it would have a deep spiritual impact. "For the tribes that live in that area, the glaciers are the head of the skull of the god and the mountains are the arms and the legs," he says. "If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul."

Oh noes, the tribes may have to deal with the fact that their religion is completely bogus. The chunk of ice isn't actually a God's head afterall.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.

And he was surprised the glacier was melting on the surface?? Does this expert know that rain is warmer that ice?? Ah yes, it must be caused by CO2. The temperature difference between the rain and the ice is unimportant.

[Parley Baer]

I bet they were creating yellow snow.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m not a real scientist but I’ve watched the ice in my iced tea melt a lot of times. It’s pretty cool.