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• Jairam Ramesh, India’s environment minister: "There is no evidence climate change has caused "abnormal" shrinking of Himalayan glaciers".

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Article Tags: A Moment Of Clarity A leading climate scientist today accused the Indian environment ministry of “arrogance” after the release of a government report claiming that there is no evidence climate change has caused “abnormal” shrinking of Himalayan glaciers. Jairam Ramesh, India’s ...
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• Indian study: ‘No evidence to link global warming and Himalayan glaciers…There is no abnormal retreat’

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  
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• Dissenters Rising Up: India challenges global warming claims: Env. Minister prepared to take on ‘the doomsday scenarios of Al Gore and the IPCC’

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  ‘No conclusive scientific evidence to link global warming with what is happening in the Himalayan glaciers’
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• Links: A day late

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 130
  Wikipedia has a list of cats with fraudulent diplomas. These cats (or, possibly, their owners) sent away for “earn-by-mail” diplomas, and received them. Presumably without completing the coursework. The papaya is about to receive a sex-change operation , courtesy of the US government. Want to ...
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• Vanishing Glaciers Jolt Smokestack China

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 564
  Michael Sheridan writes on the disappearing glaciers of the Tibetan plateau , for Times Online : The speed and scale of change on the Tibetan plateau have made Chinese leaders react to something they understand — a potential threat to the future of China itself. They are clearly seeking to mould opinion in ...
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• Austrias secret Santas grotto

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Glacier crevasses can be deathtraps for skiers, but a fluke of nature has given us a peek inside one – and into a frozen wonderland For years Ive been spooked by the memory of a friend who, having returned home early from a ski season, sat propped up in our local, nursing a pint with his leg in plaster, beneath ...
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• Highest Meeting Ever Tackles Climate Change

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 140
  When it comes to climate change there are varying opinions of the potential effects.  Many site the melting of the polar ice caps and rising sea levels.  Nepal is trying to remind people that the glaciers in the Himalayas are also feeling the effects of climate change.  To raise awareness about issues of global ...
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• The melting snows of Kilimanjaro

  
  Celebrity Paycut Encouraging celebrities all over the world to save us from global warming by taking a paycut. — Authority: 163
  Glaciers crowning Africas tallest mountain could disappear within decades. Remnant of the Eastern Ice Field as seen 2000. This particular chunk of ice has now disappeared.Lonnie G. Thompson The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be gone by 2033, predicts the most detailed analysis yet of the ...
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• Delhi releases Action Plan on Climate Change

  
  Assam Information Portal — Authority: 145
  With Thursday’s release, the Delhi becomes the first state in India to come out with an Action Plan on Climate Change. Releasing the Climate Change Agenda of Delhi 2009-2012, Shri Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Environment and Forests(I/C) congratulated the Chief Minister of Delhi Smt Sheela Dixit to be the ...
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• Book Review: A World Without Ice by Dr. Henry Pollack

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 514
  Ice asks no questions, presents no arguments, reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology and carries no political baggage as it changes from solid to liquid. It just melts." —- Even in its absence, ice rules land and sea. The unmistakable signs of its power and influence are ...
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• In pictures : Satellite eye on Earth - October

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Terra and Aqua/MODIS/NASA Once a powerful super typhoon, Parma crossed over the northern tip of Luzon Island, the Philippines, on 3 October 2009, as a category one typhoon. On 6 October, the storm reversed direction and moved south-east back over Luzon. The cause of this change in direction is shown in this ...
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• The mysterious past, October, 2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 112
  Today: The mysterious glaciers that grew when Asia heated up Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend Californias Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war A prehistoric ‘runway’ used by flying reptiles Europe’s oldest stone ...
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• Kilimanjaro’s Melting Snow Shows a Drastic Picture of Global Warming

  
  GreenPacks.org — Authority: 548
  Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak, and used to be covered in snow throughout the year despite its proximity to the equator. The ill-effects of global warming however, have put up a drastic picture of the mountain, whose slopes went ice-free this year; probably for the first time in 12,000 years. According ...
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• Why Are Kilimanjaros Glaciers Fading?

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  The ice atop Mt. Kilimanjaro has been receding for years, but a new study says its disappearance has recently sped up. Now the question is: Is global warming the cause?
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• Dust Storm in the Copper River Valley, Alaska

  
  The Dragon's Tales — Authority: 429
  [IMG: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YJtJVrH3c5k/SvBsH5TPSOI/AAAAAAAABoY/GuQ-6TwfSHM/s400/glacial-dust.jpg]
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• The Snows of Kilimanjaro Could Be Gone by 2022

  
  80beats — Authority: 655
  The glaciers that shine at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, could vanish entirely within 15 years, according to a somber new report. Says glaciologist Lonnie Thompson: “Of the ice cover present in 1912 … 85% has disappeared and 26% of that present in 2000 is now gone” [ USA Today ] . ...
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• Kilimanjaro ice could vanish within 20 years

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Global warming not local weather variations to blame for loss of up to 17 feet of ice, say scientists The famous Snows of Kilimanjaro that cap Africas highest mountain are melting so fast they could be gone within two decades, according to a study of the mountains ice fields that used data going back nearly a ...
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• Spectacular Glacial Dust Plume

  
  Geology News — Authority: 533
  “In this image, the wind is blowing from the snow-covered mountains to the Gulf of Alaska. The wind picked up fine sediment from the riverbank and carried it over the ocean. The pale brown plume of airborne dust contrasts sharply with the dark ocean beneath it.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release.
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• Kilimanjaro Glaciers Are Melting

  
  Geology News — Authority: 533
  An article on the CNN website reports that the glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are retreating and could be melted away within 20 years.
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• Nepal’s Cabinet To Hold Climate Meeting On Mt. Everest

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  joehastings Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Nepal’s Cabinet plans to hold a meeting at the base camp of Mt. Everest to highlight the threat of climate change and rising global temperatures, which is causing glaciers in the Himalayas to melt at an alarming rate. The climate summit just below the world’s ...
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