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04/22/2008: "UN Report Reveals Glaciers Melting at Record Speed"

Glaciers across the globe are melting faster than at any point in the last century. Many could disappear within decades, and their decline could cause droughts and chaos for billions of people who depend on rivers fed by glaciers.

This was the sobering message delivered Sunday by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), along with a plea to international leaders to act swiftly and drastically to address climate change, which the UNEP says is to blame for the glacial melt.

According to Haeberli, glacier thickness declined by an average of 0.3 meters a year between 1980 and 1999. But since 2000 the average annual ice loss has increased to about 0.5 meters (20 inches).

[ What good news. ]



http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,541941,00.html

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on Tuesday, April 22nd, Dental Plan said

"...along with a plea to international leaders to act swiftly and drastically to address climate change, which the UNEP says is to blame for the glacial melt."

About the only thing that would work at this point would be to abolish industry and hence the modern Western lifestyle. Sounds Fascist. No market.