The Himalayas and Climate Change

[Don]

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/2891925

about 5 minutes long

[Chris]

Interesting how the rise of the Himalayas absorbed CO2 and cooled the planet into the Ice Age.

And the Himalayas are still growing as India slides under it.

Fascinating.

[Peter1469]

I can't get the video to work. But I changed lots of settings to prevent websites from opening media on their own. The really ticks me off.

[Chris]

The OP video is a 5 minute segment of this longer video at youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCHwHbQWLj8

But, man, 45 minutes!

[Don]

I wish I knew more about uploading video to YouTube or downloading video from there to edit it. I use tubechop but it leaves something to be desired. They allow for imbedding which most forums don't allow in posting areas but I can't figure out how to upload it back to YouTube. For those who can't access this you can see it here on YouTube in its entirety, just skip over to 38 minutes. http://youtu.be/tCHwHbQWLj8


Oops! Chris beat me to it.

[Don]

I think it shows that we needn't turn everything over to some world authority for something we know so little about. Study, yes. Learn, yes. Act when necessary within reason, yes.

I was watching one of these shows a couple of years ago and they said that basically there will be a time in a 26,000 year cycle of the earths tilt that we will experience another ice age and no amount of pumping pollutants or carbon dioxide by man will be able to stop it. Be environmentally conscious yes but adaption will be the key to our survival and way of life.

[Chris]

I wish I knew more about uploading video to YouTube or downloading video from there to edit it. I use tubechop but it leaves something to be desired. They allow for imbedding which most forums don't allow in posting areas but I can't figure out how to upload it back to YouTube. For those who can't access this you can see it here on YouTube in its entirety, just skip over to 38 minutes.


Oops! Chris beat me to it.


For some reason tubechop, a great tool, won't load here--I tried, only youtube, and vimeo if you use the video tool in editor. There's a lot of long video's I'd like to chop down!

[Bob]

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/2891925

about 5 minutes long

I mailed this to Dr. Richard Lindzen this nations finest climate scientist and hope to get his opinion.

[Cigar]

Below is a list of actual scientific groups that support man-made warming/change.

Let's see your list of "serious scientist" skeptics.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics,
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
Australian Academy of Science,
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO
British Antarctic Survey,
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Environmental Protection Agency,
European Federation of Geologists
European Geosciences Union
European Physical Society
Federation of American Scientists
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
Geological Society of America,
Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of London
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA),
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Royal Meteorological Society,
Royal Society of the UK
Royal Society of New Zealand
US National Academy of Sciences

The Academies of Science from 19 different countries all endorse the consensus.
13 countries have signed a joint statement endorsing the consensus position.

They are:
Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
Royal Society of Canada,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Academie des Sciences (France)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany),
Indian National Science Academy,
Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
Science Council of Japan,
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico)
Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Science of South Africa,
Royal Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences (USA)

Some others...
American Medical Association
Australian Medical Association,
World Federation of Public Health Associations,
World Health Organization
American Public Health Association
American Astronomical Society
American Statistical Association
World Federation of Engineering Organizations
http://www.skepticalscience.com/globa...


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[Chris]

Below is a list of actual scientific groups that support man-made warming/change.

Let's see your list of "serious scientist" skeptics.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Astronomical Society
American Chemical Society
American Geophysical Union
American Institute of Physics,
American Meteorological Society
American Physical Society
Australian Academy of Science,
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO
British Antarctic Survey,
Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Environmental Protection Agency,
European Federation of Geologists
European Geosciences Union
European Physical Society
Federation of American Scientists
Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies
Geological Society of America,
Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of London
International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA),
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Royal Meteorological Society,
Royal Society of the UK
Royal Society of New Zealand
US National Academy of Sciences

The Academies of Science from 19 different countries all endorse the consensus.
13 countries have signed a joint statement endorsing the consensus position.

They are:
Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias (Brazil)
Royal Society of Canada,
Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Academie des Sciences (France)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany),
Indian National Science Academy,
Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)
Science Council of Japan,
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (Mexico)
Russian Academy of Sciences
Academy of Science of South Africa,
Royal Society (United Kingdom)
National Academy of Sciences (USA)

Some others...
American Medical Association
Australian Medical Association,
World Federation of Public Health Associations,
World Health Organization
American Public Health Association
American Astronomical Society
American Statistical Association
World Federation of Engineering Organizations
http://www.skepticalscience.com/globa...


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[waltky]

Climate Change Rapidly Melting Everest...
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Son of Famed Sherpa, Experts: Climate Change Rapidly Melting Everest
June 28, 2016 - After bearing witness to the gigantic mountain's two deadliest years on record, some 400 climbers are celebrating recent ascents of Mt. Everest, the first expeditions to summit successfully since the 2014 climbing season.


Although six climbers, including one Sherpa, died during the 2016 season, experts say the string of deadly avalanches and earthquakes that forced repeated evacuations of the mountain, which claimed at least 40 lives over the past 48 months, may not be a thing of the past. “It is shrinking,” Dr. Nima Namgyal Sherpa, an Everest expedition organizer, told VOA’s Tibetan Service via satellite phone from the Nepal-side Everest base camp.“It's melting every year.” While climbers and expedition organizers have long said there are good years and bad years, lucky seasons and unlucky ones, scientists and locals alike now say the mountain's environmental conditions have been irrevocably altered.


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Trekkers make their way to Dingboche, a popular Mount Everest base camp, in Pangboche, Nepal

Norbu Tenzing Norgay, son of the first man known to have summited alongside Sir Edmund Hillary, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, says some glaciers in the region have undergone such extensive melting that crevasses are nearly too wide to traverse. “My brother was on a mountain recently where it was normally full of snow, and he said he wasn’t going back because there wasn't enough,” Norgay told VOA. “He had to use more ladders to cross those crevasses.” “Last year around this time, it was much colder, but this year it is unusually warm," said Dr. Nima Namgyal Sherpa, who has spent time on the mountain for each of the past six seasons.“Usually we have these streams coming down in the end of May, but now it comes quite early for the season.”

Satellite data

Joseph Shea, senior glacier hydrologist at the Kathmandu-based International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, says satellite data that measures glacial volume shows at least one square meter of annual shrinkage.Last year, an international research team lead by Shea predicted that 70 to 99 percent of Everest glaciers would disappear by 2100, and that the melting has reached an unstoppable point. “The glaciers there are in retreat, so we’re losing area every year,” he told VOA Tibetan.“But more importantly, we are losing volumes. "Even if you stop emitting all the greenhouse gas and climate stops changing today, you’ll still have glacier losses because the system is now out of balance, it's out of equilibrium,” he added.“So, even for the next 150 years, the glacial retreat will continue without any additional forcing.”

Long term, far-reaching consequences (http://www.voanews.com/content/mount-everest-melting/3395393.html)