[Oldeconomybuyer]

[GnuThere]

I must have missed a news cycle.
Plants are bad?

[Rebelbase]

“”We don’t know what the impact is — it may be that plants trap snow and might cause it to melt more slowly. It might be that the plants cause the snow to melt more quickly,” she added.”

Translation: “we don’t know sh_t.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

Not to worry. The hordes of climbers will stomp that fragile vegetation into
oblivion.

[Bob434]

“More plants are growing in the US now that mile’s thick glaciers have melted away revealing massive land that was once covered- the consequences could be series, and hugh

[Olog-hai]

Geography professor at University of Exeter in the UK. Who could disbelieve this face, eh?

[jimmygrace]

Now that’s one place on earth where global warming would actually save lives.

[Tenacious 1]

While it is still too early to tell what impact this new growth could have on the region, "urgent research" on the potential effects is needed, Anderson told CNN.

"We don't know what the impact is -- it may be that plants trap snow and might cause it to melt more slowly. It might be that the plants cause the snow to melt more quickly," she added.

So... This "proves" that somebody has to fork over a bunch of money so some global warming religiousos can put together some documentation (AKA science) that a shows that a little additional vegetation growing on the mountain is disastrous for all human life on earth.

[hal ogen]

So who gives a rat’s a**? We are all going to die in 10 years. What anti-science buffoonery.

[Steamburg]

ECO-DIVERSITY!!!!
Smoke Dat.

[ConservativeMind]

While it is still too early to tell what impact this new growth could have on the region, “urgent research” on the potential effects is needed, Anderson told CNN.

“We don't know what the impact is — it may be that plants trap snow and might cause it to melt more slowly. It might be that the plants cause the snow to melt more quickly,” she added.

What makes any of that “urgent” and if plant matter there is so dangerous, let’s aerial spray Roundup on it.

[SpaceBar]

More plants?

[VanDeKoik]

With thousands of bored yuppies going there every year, they think that they aren’t accidently bringing seeds along with them?

[yesthatjallen]

Himalayan glaciers have been losing almost half a meter (1.6 feet) of ice each year since the start of this century.

Half a meter per year for 100 years is 50 meters in 100 years.

Man the life boats.

[NativeSon]

It’s all the fertilizer (bodies) that have left up there causing the growth.

[HamiltonJay]

Please tell me the URGENCY that this causes?

If the snow melts faster or slower because there are more plants then there were 25 years ago... what about that is so important to fully understand its impact?

The planet has been changing since the first two dust particles stuck together and will keep changing as long as it exists...

What about THIS change is so desperate that we need to understand it fully and understand it now??

[DouglasKC]

In any normal mindset plants growing would be a great thing.

[beethovenfan]

....and this is a problem how?

[Magic Fingers]

“There are now more areas that are covered in plants than there were in 1993,”

What about 1693? 1293? 893? Etc...

[Pontiac]

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[Wuli]

The planet is becoming greener and might one day lose it’s deserts. OMG!!!!!