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UN warns of glacier meltdown
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 12/7/10 | AFP

Posted on 12/07/2010 10:50:38 AM PST by NormsRevenge

CANCUN, Mexico (AFP) – Glaciers are melting faster in southern South America and Alaska than in Europe and communities need to adapt their living habits to the meltdown, said a UN report released in Mexico Tuesday.

Many low-lying glaciers may disappear over the coming decades, with the northwest United States, southwest Canada and the Arctic also affected, according to the report compiled by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and scientists, presented at a UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico.

Changes in rain patterns and shrinking rivers will reduce water as well as food supplies to many communities, the report said.

"Adaptation is crucial and urgently needed to assist people who will be affected," said John Crump, UNEP polar issues coordinator, at a news conference.

Though glaciers are shrinking overall worldwide, high levels of rain have actually increased the size of others, including in western Norway and New Zealand's South Island, the report said.

Warmer temperatures due to climate change were a major factor in the rapidly changing glaciers, as well as possibly the deposit of soot, reducing the reflection of heat back into space, according to the report.

Norway on Tuesday pledged more than 12 million dollars to help one region where glaciers are melting -- the Hindu Kush region in the Himalayas.

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KEYWORDS: glacier; meltdown; unep; unitednations
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The 'Mer de Glace' (Sea of Ice) glacier near Chamonix, Mont-Blanc, eastern France. Glaciers are melting faster in southern South America and Alaska than in Europe and communities need to adapt their living habits to the meltdown, said a UN report released in Mexico Tuesday. (AFP/File/Philippe Desmazes)


1 posted on 12/07/2010 10:50:40 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Glaciers.

They’ve been shrinking since the last ice age, but suddenly it’s news.


2 posted on 12/07/2010 10:52:34 AM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: NormsRevenge

This is the UN speaking. They are ignorant. Pay no attenion to them or you’ll just encourage them..


3 posted on 12/07/2010 10:53:06 AM PST by texmexis best (`)
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To: NormsRevenge

They’ll just need to contact their commission for the rights of women and behead a few million women and girls to combat the rising carbon footprint...


4 posted on 12/07/2010 10:54:24 AM PST by Soothesayer (“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license...")
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To: NormsRevenge

Break out the lawn chairs and the cocktails.


5 posted on 12/07/2010 10:55:31 AM PST by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Glaciers are melting faster in southern South America and Alaska than in Europe and communities need to adapt their living habits to the meltdown, said a UN report released in Mexico Tuesday.

Globull lying.

Norway on Tuesday pledged more than 12 million dollars to help

I wonder how the Norwegians whose pockets this "pledge" is coming out of feel about having their money stolen for this transparent lie. For that matter how does anyone feel about this sham being used as a justification to steal our hard earned money and squander it on a bunch of third world dumps meanwhile allowing the globull warming cult leaders to frolic in the sun and dine on the very best of everything in Cancun.

6 posted on 12/07/2010 10:56:34 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: NormsRevenge
Though glaciers are shrinking overall worldwide, high levels of rain have actually increased the size of others, including in western Norway and New Zealand's South Island, the report said.

How can they be "shrinking overall worldwide" when many are increasing in size?!? Strange how all this ice is melting into the rivers but causing them to shrink. Whatever. Mankind must have been the cause of the ending of the ice age, right?

7 posted on 12/07/2010 10:59:05 AM PST by bgill (K Parliament- how could a young man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: from occupied ga

Wasn’t there a travel advisory issued for travelers going to Mexico lately? Perhaps the drug lords will look on the extra security as a challenge...


8 posted on 12/07/2010 11:01:58 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: NormsRevenge
Ah the UN.

Now they are a unbiased, objective, credible source of scientific information.

NASA would have been a little more credible, a little.

We all know the glaciers are melting. We are not sure why. We are not sure that it is for the better of worse generally. We are not sure of the time-frame for the future.

It's sort of like a storm, in slow motion; spanning many lifespans. Not unprecedented.

9 posted on 12/07/2010 11:05:25 AM PST by cicero2k
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LOL. It’s worse than we thought. Global Warming caused a titanic thread-slide that made your post about Mexico appear over here!

We didn’t listen!


10 posted on 12/07/2010 11:05:40 AM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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Wasn’t there a travel advisory issued for travelers going to Mexico lately? Perhaps the drug lords will look on the extra security as a challenge...

For the border areas for sure. I think if you stay in the Cancun Zona Hotelera you should be OK. All they have to do is reassign the cops they have with radar guns shaking down tourists as security and they'll be plenty of protection.

11 posted on 12/07/2010 11:07:09 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: Abathar

Sorry, I’m a ‘tard.

I forgot this Climate bash was in Mexico, hence your post, d’oh!


12 posted on 12/07/2010 11:08:57 AM PST by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: tractorman

.....and I will make popcorn


13 posted on 12/07/2010 11:10:38 AM PST by Kimmers (Tell a lie often enough it becomes political........)
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To: NormsRevenge
"This is obviously due to....oh what the hell, just give us your wallets."


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

14 posted on 12/07/2010 11:14:08 AM PST by The Comedian (Government: Saving people from freedom since time immemorial.)
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To: NormsRevenge
And there is a thread a little further up the page that has a scientist stating that we are in a mini-Ice Age. Can't these people get their lies straight?
15 posted on 12/07/2010 11:15:07 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Looking forward to kicking Chicago out of Washington.)
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To: texmexis best

“This is the UN speaking. They are ignorant. Pay no attenion to them or you’ll just encourage them..”

Hey...UN...bite me!


16 posted on 12/07/2010 11:20:00 AM PST by chooseascreennamepat
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To: NormsRevenge
"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

"Again?"

"Nothing up my sleeve..."

"But that trick never works!"

17 posted on 12/07/2010 11:35:18 AM PST by rfp1234 (Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers!)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Can’t these people get their lies straight?

I hear ya.. nothing like a mini-Ice Age to really mess up an agenda.. heck, there used to be sheets of ice across the continent we now know as EUrope.. and not so long ago ..


18 posted on 12/07/2010 11:49:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: agere_contra

*snicker*

thread slide... :)


19 posted on 12/07/2010 11:54:17 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: NormsRevenge

These people have never heard the story of the kid that cried wolf.


20 posted on 12/07/2010 12:18:40 PM PST by ully2 (ully)
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