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(USA Today) Interesting Sir George Head - OBE, while on his latest expedition to build a bridge between the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro, reports that its glaciers are thawing fast   (usatoday.com) divider line 57
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Big_Thumb [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 08:53:05 PM  
I thought there was only one peak, sir.

/any sign of last year's expedition?

 
Boris S. Wort [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 09:20:49 PM  
I see what you did there.


/the both of you

 
Big_Thumb [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 09:26:17 PM  
Boris S. Wort: I see what you did there.


/the both of you


There is only me, sir.

 
pseudowho [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 10:35:38 PM  
Big_Thumb: There is only me, sir.

www.intriguing.com

/possibly one of my favorite Python sketches
//definitely hotlinked image

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 10:45:46 PM  
You down with OBE?

 
gopher321 [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 11:10:29 PM  
Ice is melting? In Africa? Get outta here.

 
crab66 2009-11-02 11:21:47 PM  
What stupid people think climate change looks like:

bawandinesh.name


What it actually looks like:


img.thesun.co.uk

 
LowbrowDeluxe 2009-11-02 11:21:56 PM  
gopher321: Ice is melting? In Africa? Get outta here.

thebornotaku.com

 
Flakeloaf 2009-11-02 11:24:55 PM  
But global warming's a myth because it's colder where I live! Now excuse me, I have to go shovel the rain out of my driveway.

 
Psumek 2009-11-02 11:25:50 PM  
The only English person I trust on Global Warming is Lord Monckton. I mean he has his degree in...journalism...so yeah.

 
Omnivorous 2009-11-02 11:27:12 PM  
Tell it to Flush Limbaugh.

 
Edsel 2009-11-02 11:27:43 PM  
gopher321: Ice is melting? In Africa? Get outta here.

More like 19,000 feet above Africa.

 
louiedog 2009-11-02 11:28:14 PM  
Big_Thumb: I thought there was only one peak, sir.

/any sign of last year's expedition?


Well, that will save some time.

 
Head_Shot [TotalFark] 2009-11-02 11:28:48 PM  
crab66: What stupid people think climate change looks like:

What it actually looks like:


Oh come on. Those pictures are certainly NOT from the future.

Flamer

 
JonnyBGoode 2009-11-02 11:29:22 PM  
i45.photobucket.com

Seriously. We were hearing about this like fifteen years ago.

 
RockIsDead 2009-11-02 11:30:27 PM  
Except they don't think that.

 
GungFu 2009-11-02 11:30:33 PM  
What about the snow leopard?

And...

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become

 
NYRBill 2009-11-02 11:30:55 PM  
didn't we already cover this? the ice is melting due to the volcano waking up?
/IIRC

 
jvl 2009-11-02 11:33:50 PM  
I am very disturbed by this news article which points out that this is part of a larger geologic trend which may be recently accelerated by man rather than either blaming man or blaming natural climate change exclusively.

This kind of non-polarizing well-informed article has no place in my mass media. And I will have none of it sir!

 
Fano 2009-11-02 11:34:03 PM  
The question wasn't why there was a leopard frozen halfway up, but why there was a bridge connecting the two peaks.

 
One Thirty-two and Bush 2009-11-02 11:35:37 PM  
i91.photobucket.com.

 
Rhaab 2009-11-02 11:35:50 PM  
Mountaineer: Two men skilled in climbing mountains.

 
Notabunny 2009-11-02 11:37:35 PM  
GungFu: What about the snow leopard?

I don't give a flying fig (nsfw language)

 
chopit 2009-11-02 11:38:56 PM  
gopher321: Ice is melting? In Africa? Get outta here.

At least we don't have to worry about tigers.

 
Psumek 2009-11-02 11:38:56 PM  
GungFu: What about the snow leopard?

And...

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become


He should have blessed the rains down in Africa

/as long as he's not hungry like the wolf

 
Urinal Gum 2009-11-02 11:41:52 PM  
All I know is that it is a lot colder now than it was this summer. Therefore, liberals everywhere are always lying.

 
MemeSlave 2009-11-02 11:44:02 PM  
That's what happens when you put ice on top of a volcano.

 
Vash's Apprentice 2009-11-02 11:45:05 PM  
between the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro

He just came for the pie
www.lovemarks.com

 
Swampthing in Korea 2009-11-02 11:45:52 PM  
How did they make it past the baboons?

/Obscure?

 
flamingboard 2009-11-02 11:59:26 PM  
b-but global cooling is going to make them all come back.

 
Rodeodoc 2009-11-03 12:03:29 AM  
gopher321: Ice is melting? In Africa? Get outta here.

Edsel More like 19,000 feet above Africa.

So that makes it a lot closer to the sun, right?

Well there you go. Bob's your uncle.

 
Kunochan 2009-11-03 12:12:43 AM  
img14.imageshack.us

Has a story he'd like to tell.

 
corridor 2009-11-03 12:34:26 AM  
Vash's Apprentice: between the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro

He just came for the pie


And one, excuse me, DAMN fine cup of coffee.

 
DownIncognito 2009-11-03 12:34:34 AM  
What's up with the picture of a vertical sheet of ice standing in the middle of a barren field?

 
SlimXx 2009-11-03 12:36:25 AM  
And what routes will you both be taking?

 
texastag 2009-11-03 12:45:40 AM  
Could someone explain to me how crippling our economy with cap and trade while countries like China and India have no intentions of doing the same will save the planet?

Also, if we have the ability to affect the climate to such a great extent why can't we just reverse the process and fix whatever damage we may have done? Maybe build some giant climate cleaning factories who's sole purpose is to remove greenhouse gases and other pollutants from the atmosphere?

 
kid_charlemagne 2009-11-03 12:58:33 AM  
I once knew a man who was an Earl and an O.B.E., which made him an earlobe.

 
Jaakobi 2009-11-03 12:58:36 AM  
texastag: Could someone explain to me how crippling our economy with cap and trade while countries like China and India have no intentions of doing the same will save the planet?

Also, if we have the ability to affect the climate to such a great extent why can't we just reverse the process and fix whatever damage we may have done? Maybe build some giant climate cleaning factories who's sole purpose is to remove greenhouse gases and other pollutants from the atmosphere?


You're seriously complaining about the cost of cap and trade and then next sentence proposing something that will cost quadrillions of dollars just to reverse what has already been done?

 
mrexcess [TotalFark] 2009-11-03 01:02:18 AM  
img22.imageshack.us

 
YodaTuna 2009-11-03 01:02:55 AM  
texastag: Could someone explain to me how crippling our economy with cap and trade while countries like China and India have no intentions of doing the same will save the planet?

Also, if we have the ability to affect the climate to such a great extent why can't we just reverse the process and fix whatever damage we may have done? Maybe build some giant climate cleaning factories who's sole purpose is to remove greenhouse gases and other pollutants from the atmosphere?


First off it won't be economy crippling, just like the SO2 cap and trade plan didn't cripple the economy and actually significantly reduced the amount of SO2 in the air. There's a reason acid rain isn't as big of a problem as it used to be. Also the United States is a leader. We don't need China or India to do jack shiat, let them poison their population, it will cost more in the long run.

As for your imaginary machines, you can start inventing those. Remember they have to clean more CO2 out of the air than they produce by being powered. Good luck chief!

 
o5iiawah 2009-11-03 01:52:56 AM  
based on ice-core analysis, Africa's highest peak probably will be ice-free as early as 2022 or as late as 2033, says glaciologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University, who led the study.

as an ice-movement scientist, Lonnie also moonlights as the Ohio State offensive coordinator.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-11-03 01:56:19 AM  
Vash's Apprentice: between the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro

He just came for the pie


And a damn fine cup of joe.

 
Standard Deviant 2009-11-03 02:01:15 AM  
So 300 years ago we had a mini-ice age. The climate changes every now and then, predictably. This is a warming phase - we are not about to destroy all life on this planet because of 80 years of industry. That article didn't claim that Kilimanjaro had ice caps for all of eternity until now.

 
Amigajoe [TotalFark] 2009-11-03 02:17:13 AM  
-No, only at least 12,000 years. Hardly an eyeblink in Earth's history, much like human existence...

 
zefal 2009-11-03 03:01:21 AM  
Here's snow cap data for Mount Ararat dating back to 1840. i267.photobucket.com

Click here to take you to the graph. Click graph to expand to a more detailed view of a specific time range. Wikipedia refers Mount Ararat's "permanent" snow cap but the cap has disappeared on and off throughout the recorded time line. Guess what? Nothing is permanent and it has always been that way and just because something is changing in our lifetime doesn't mean it is being caused by humans. And what are the consequences of there not being a snow cap or glaciers on Kilimanjaro whether it's the result of human activity or not? SOMETHING IS CHANGING!! GASP!!! It must be a bad thing and caused by humans the evil western civilizations!

 
freakout242 2009-11-03 06:18:56 AM  
<b><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4743449&IDComment=55663883#c556 63883">freakout242</a>:</b> <i>"Of the ice cover present in 1912," Thompson and his colleagues write in the paper, "85% has disappeared and 26% of that present in 2000 is now gone."

Let's see here... 85%(gone) + 26%(left) =111%(total ice cover).
111%,Thats a lot of Ice!</i>

...oh wait... 26% of 85% is now gone.
/Never Fark Before Coffee

 
Zap_Rowsdower 2009-11-03 06:32:28 AM  
There's some top-quality grade-A stupid in this thread.

 
luckyeddie 2009-11-03 06:52:47 AM  
Matron's got a smattering

/only interested in the Python comments

 
LegalizeThoughtCrime 2009-11-03 07:13:15 AM  
zefal: Guess what? Nothing is permanent and it has always been that way and just because something is changing in our lifetime doesn't mean it is being caused by humans. And what are the consequences of there not being a snow cap or glaciers on Kilimanjaro whether it's the result of human activity or not? SOMETHING IS CHANGING!! GASP!!! It must be a bad thing and caused by humans the evil western civilizations!

People have been crapping in their own drinking water for generations. Who is to say that Cholera is a result of human activity?

Please support your local oil company.

 
PJMurphy 2009-11-03 07:27:39 AM  
There's no need to invent some complicated machine for removing CO2 from the air. One already exists...it's called a "plant". Big ones are sometimes known as "Trees". There are several varieties, it's a long list. I shall Weeners one here....

www.fpdimages.com

www.flowerphotographer.net

 
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