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Melting Glaciers Said Threatening Everest
AP London | Nov 17, 2004 | AP Staff (assumed)

Posted on 11/17/2004 6:01:33 AM PST by wita

Melting Glaciers Said Threatening Everest

LONDON (AP) - Melting glaciers caused by climate change pose an urgent threat to Mount Everest's unique environment, activists said Wednesday, launching a campaign to protect the Himalayan mountain range and the world's highest peak.

Lakes have swollen from runoff, and unless urgent action is taken, many lakes could burst, threatening the lives of thousands of people and destroying the environment, said the campaigners - a collection of mountaineers, Nepalese climbers and the Friends of the Earth, an environmental lobbying organization.

The group will present a petition Thursday asking in Paris asking UNESCO, the United Nation's cultural agency, to place Nepal's Everest National Park on its World Heritage in Danger List.

Friends of the Earth international climate spokeswoman Catherine Pearce said it would be the first time UNESCO's World Heritage Committee had been asked to consider sites endangered by climate change.

The environmentalists also said climate change threatens the coral reefs in Belize and glaciers in Peru, and will submit petitions to include them on the endangered list.

More than 700 sites are currently on the U.N. Environmental, Scientific and Cultural Organization's endangered list. Inclusion of the Everest park would commit UNESCO to assessing the risk to the area and developing "corrective measures" in conjunction with the government of Nepal.

The climate change problems in Nepal, Belize and Peru were caused by greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized countries, the group said, adding that it will ask the World Heritage Committee to press countries around the world to reduce the emissions.

Peter Roderick, director of Climate Justice Program, a London-based environmental group, said damage to glaciers and coral reefs had served as warning signs of the impact of climate change.

"The World Heritage Committee must urgently investigate these sites and ensure that everything necessary is done to maintain their world heritage status, to keep people safe and to pass them on intact to future generations," Roderick said.

British mountaineer Chris Bonnington said the Everest National Park had some of the finest mountain scenery in the world.

"Both the beauty of this magnificent area and the livelihoods of its inhabitants are threatened by global warming," Bonnington said.


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KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; mteverest
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Hmmm, never at a loss for words, the climate change, Global Warming crowd hard at work hand in hand with their buddies at the UN.
1 posted on 11/17/2004 6:01:33 AM PST by wita
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To: wita

We all are dooooomed! Run for your lives.


2 posted on 11/17/2004 6:03:49 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, AIr Force, Pray for all our military in hostile territory.)
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To: wita
Threatening the environment? Landslides, avalanches, floods, expanding lakes -- all of these things "threaten an environment". It happens.

The world changes. All the time. These nimrods want stasis where nothing changes, nothing is "threatened".

My position is always the same: Global Warming is occuring on Mars. Fix it there first, to see if we can do it without unforeseen consequences. After we figure out how to stabilize Mars, then we should try to change things on Earth.

3 posted on 11/17/2004 6:07:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Piquaboy

This might be series. When do they expect the top to go uder water? I want to know because when there's 10 or 20 feet left showing, I want to go climb that sucker.


4 posted on 11/17/2004 6:07:20 AM PST by San Jacinto
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To: Piquaboy

Exactly. Why fight it.


5 posted on 11/17/2004 6:07:33 AM PST by wita
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To: wita

It is a shame we can't control the weather.


6 posted on 11/17/2004 6:07:51 AM PST by Always Right
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To: wita
"Threatening Everest?" A 28,000 foot pile of rock? With what? I can hardly think of an environment with less to lose from any sort of change.
7 posted on 11/17/2004 6:09:14 AM PST by VadeRetro (A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
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To: San Jacinto

ROFLMAO!!! Mind if I join ya? That would be quite an achievement.


8 posted on 11/17/2004 6:09:50 AM PST by KoRn
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To: wita

Maybe the UN and UNESCO and all the greenies, Euroweenies, and especially the French could fly up to the Sun and kind of stand in front of it so that they cast a really big shadow right on Everest.

That should help.


9 posted on 11/17/2004 6:09:50 AM PST by old3030 (Religion would not have enemies if it were not an enemy to their vices.-- Massillon.)
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Threatening the environment? Landslides, avalanches, floods, expanding lakes....

Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!

10 posted on 11/17/2004 6:10:04 AM PST by stboz
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To: wita
"Both the beauty of this magnificent area and the livelihoods of its inhabitants are threatened by global warming," Bonnington said.

Apparently the sky is falling (again/still) according to the ecofreaks. I think I heard this as a kid's story when I was small and didn't believe it then either.

11 posted on 11/17/2004 6:10:57 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: San Jacinto

Count me in, but I'm thinking we'll have to tread water, or do you own stock in a big boat? I don't think it will ever get that far because the rainbow is suppose to remind us that water isn't the method used to end things in the "last days". It is Fire and the global warmers are getting nervous.


12 posted on 11/17/2004 6:11:17 AM PST by wita
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To: Piquaboy
I can see this being the Sequel to "The Day After Tomorrow".

It will be called; "The Day After The Day After Tomorrow".

13 posted on 11/17/2004 6:12:33 AM PST by KoRn
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To: wita
From UNESCO World Heritage site:

The Bureau consists of seven States Parties elected annually by the Committee : a Chairperson, five Vice-Chairpersons, and a Rapporteur.

On 30 June 2003, at its 27th session, the World Heritage Committee elected the following members of its Bureau:

Chairperson: • Saint Lucia,
Ms Vera Lacoeuilhe, chaired the 27th session of the Committee (Paris, 30 June - 5 July 2003)
• China,

Mr Zhang Xinsheng, became the Chairperson at the conclusion of the 27th session and will chair the 28th session of the Committee (Suzhou, China, 28 June - 7 July 2004)
Rapporteur: • South Africa,
Ms Louise Graham
Vice-Chairpersons: • Argentina
• Nigeria
• Oman
• China 
• Saint Lucia
• the United Kingdom

The Bureau of the Committee co-ordinates the work of the Committee and fixes the dates, hours and order of business of meetings.

The election of the new Bureau will take place at the end of the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee (Suzhou, China, 28 June - 7 July 2004).


http://www.unesco.org/whc/ab_comm.htm
Update: 28 september 2003

14 posted on 11/17/2004 6:14:32 AM PST by spald
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To: ClearCase_guy
The greens, conservation international and the nature conservancy would revert back to the dinosaur days if they thought they could get away with it. These self proclaimed keepers of the planet are oblivious to the fact that you can't make an end run around state sovereignity by simply buying up lots of land everywhere on the planet and declaring it off limits to humans.

We are so conditioned to hearing tales of woe from the eco-nistas that a description of overflowing lakes to be a catastrophe doesn't even raise an eyebrow.

15 posted on 11/17/2004 6:16:46 AM PST by i.l.e.
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To: wita

Yes...not to mention the new investment company launched yesterday in London by our old pal, Al Gore! Watch those
carbon intensities! Minimum amount of each investment: $3M!
This is just for the big money boys who can write off most
of their losses!


16 posted on 11/17/2004 6:16:57 AM PST by Grendel9
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To: wita

Cool! Less snow and ice, its easier to climb!


17 posted on 11/17/2004 6:18:23 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: wita
Count me in, but I'm thinking we'll have to tread water, or do you own stock in a big boat?

No, I figure the sherpas will be offering services as fishing guides as well as mountain climbing by then.

18 posted on 11/17/2004 6:20:18 AM PST by San Jacinto
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"Melting Glaciers Said Threatening Everest"

Wow, if melting Glaciers raise the oceans high enough to threaten Everest then we really do have a problem...

I think I will sink all my cash into the Boating Industry!

19 posted on 11/17/2004 6:21:09 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: wita
I can't believe I am the first:
"It's Bush's fault."
20 posted on 11/17/2004 6:22:13 AM PST by akorahil (MSM is RIP)
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