Global warming takes its toll on the world's highest mountain as Everest shrinks by 4ft

Belfast Telegraph ^ | 26 January 2005 | Michael McCarthy

[angkor]

I think it was this one, which has three Everest documentaries including the original and lengthy Hillary expedition:

Into the Thin Air of Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom, 1999

[RMeals]

Yes, that's why it is that hot on Venus.... no one here is saying that will happen on Earth. That was only an example to show the power of CO2 in holding heat in.

You know what the world temp. be if we doubled the CO2? Go read a book and find out, you won't be happy by what you find.
And also, if you like to think that just because the amount of CO2 is <1% that CO2 doesn't dominate our world? Look many plants cover the world... ya know what they take in to breathe? Doesn't take a lot of the stuff man.

[RMeals]

angkor: thanks for the title.

[angkor]

try to imagine what it would look like WITHOUT the human race down there.

Good counterexample. So, perhaps.

I'll still want to read Crichton's new book before coming to any conclusion.

[presidio9]

I used the term double because I figured it was such a truely ridiculous notion that anybody would recognize it as absurd hyperbole. Apparently not.

We are incapable of significantly altering the content of our atmosphere.

[TChris]

Stop Global Warming^®!

Stop Erosion!

Stop Plate Tectonics!

Stop Earthquakes!

Stop Tsunamis!

Stop Hurricanes!

Stop Lightning!

Stop Tornados!

[meema]

But-but-but That pic makes Everest even shorter!

I thought that original pic looked different than what I remember Everest looking like.
Now 'splain why Everest looks shorter to me.
Please.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Good, I always wanted to climb Everest. This should make it easier.

Yeah, but you get an Roger Maris * next to your name.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Mountains are never measured to the top of the snowpack or ice, but to the highest point of rock.

I believe you, so if true, wouldn't the removal of ice load be more likely to cause it to decompress and expand vertically?

[SAMS]

Just finished "State of Fear" excellent read. Although it is fiction, any references to global warming et al, he actually backs up with scientific research.

[meema]

I have just begun reading State of Fear. I was waiting for my son to finish it. He says it's very good.

[far sider]

I suspect Rmeals is not really a geologist.

[IamConservative]

Looks like someone missed the big Tsunami. The surface of the Earth does move..

[Nataku X]

The elevation of Rochester, New York shrinks by 4 feet every spring. </rimshot>

[angkor]

I heard Crichton say that he almost didn't want to write it and be drawn into the the controversy, but the evidence he found against global warming was too compelling.

[Beckwith]

I am very sympathetic. At 66 I believe I have lost a couple of millimeters myself. I'm still as tall as I used to be though.

[hopespringseternal]

Remember the hole in the Ozone?... that was paramount in its day.... humans responded and adjusted CFC use, now the hole is shrinking and the entire interest in the issue has waned. I remember a lot of folks doing the same thing back then: "No way, what a load of crap, hole in the ozone, etc." Well it was true, and all we had to do was adjust a little and the problem was essentially solved for now.

If you are trying to pull causation out of this correlation, you aren't a scientist, you are a witch doctor.

[presidio9]

I suspect you're right.

[lonevoice]

Welcome to Free Republic, and it's good to see you again today. I'm glad you decided to stick around.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, wadda ya know! My Readers' Digest Illustrated World Atlas (which is a Coffee Table Book truly BIG enough to BE a coffee table, Kramer!) says that Mount Everest GROWS 1/16" of an inch each year.

So someone's lying to me. Isn't the first time; won't be the last.

Very pretty pix of the mountain. Why anyone would want to risk life and limb to climb it though, is beyond me. ;)