The Great Glacial Meltdown

[Dover]

Climate change melts Kilimanjaro's snows

...The total loss of ice masses ringing Africa's three highest peaks, projected by scientists to happen sometime in the next two to five decades, fits a global pattern playing out in South America's Andes Mountains, in Europe's Alps, in the Himalayas and beyond.

Almost every one of more than 300 large glaciers studied worldwide is in retreat, international glaciologists reported in October in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. This is "essentially a response to post-1970 global warming," they said...cont'd

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_sc/warmer_world_african_glaciers



Equator's Glaciers Slipping Away

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/12/18/african.glaciers.ap/index.html

[Double T]

1. Global warming is a severe problem; few will give up or modify their lifestyle........

to slow or reverse the warming trend. Our decline will be relatively swift once the bottom of the food chain becomes extinct.

[Porcupine]

2. The bottom of the food chain will survive.

Us humans however are screwed.

It was a nice planet while it lasted.

[verdalaven]

3. Reminds me of George Carlin

who said something like we are like fleas on Mother Earth and when we die off, She'll shake us off and start over without us.