[wita]

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.

[Piquaboy]

We all are dooooomed! Run for your lives.

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[Always Right]

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

[VadeRetro]

"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.

[old3030]

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.

[from occupied ga]

"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.

[spald]

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).

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

[Grendel9]

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!

[Lockbar]

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

[Mad Dawgg]

"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!

[akorahil]

I can't believe I am the first:
"It's Bush's fault."

[cyborg]

I think Everest has done fine without help.

[AmericanChef]

Global Warming-I-mean-freezing could be the solution to our terrorist problems.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Just another ad for (Sir Edmund) Hillary Clinton for president. LOL

[DoctorMichael]

I love mountains and Mountaineering and have personally trekked to Everest Base Camp solo...................

But jeeeze! S#!+ happens geologically! The Earth is a dynamic system; things just aren't static.

[TXnMA]

Turn off the sun...

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

It's the eternal battle between the Snow Miser and the Heat Miser.

[Larry Lucido]

It's a scheme by Bush to make McKinley the tallest mountain peak in the world.

[KarlInOhio]

This mountain blew up because we just didn't care enough about the environment.

Join the K2 Society. Working to take Everest down a notch (and at least 785 feet).

[Mike Darancette]

Melting Glaciers Said Threatening Everest

Think how easy it will be to climb when the ice and snow is gone.