Nepali Cabinet To Meet On Everest To Bring Attention To Global Warming

KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.

The Cabinet will meet at the Everest base camp later this month, just ahead of an international climate change conference next month in Copenhagen, Denmark, Forest and Soil Conservation Minister Deepak Bohara said.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and other Cabinet members will fly by plane to the 17,400-foot (5,300-meter) camp, the starting point for mountaineers attempting to climb the world's highest mountain.

Bohara said the meeting is an attempt to highlight the problem of melting glaciers in the Himalayas.

Glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, creating lakes whose walls could burst and flood villages below. Melting ice and snow also make the routes for mountaineers less stable and more difficult to follow.

Last month, members of the Maldives' government held an underwater Cabinet meeting to highlight the threat of global warming to the world's lowest-lying nation. President Mohammed Nasheed and 13 other government officials donned scuba diving suits and took their seats at a table on the ocean floor – 20 feet (six meters) under the surface of a lagoon.

Separately, a renowned Everest climber said he and mountaineering colleagues are planning to travel to Copenhagen next month to highlight the impact of climate change on the mountains.

Appa, a Nepalese Sherpa guide who has scaled the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak 19 times, said climbers from all over the world will join the campaign.

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[Chipher]

"Global Warming"
"Global Civil Wars"
"Global Refugees"
"Global Sexual Abuse"
"Global Women Abuse"
"Global Children Abuse"
"Global Malnutrition"
"Global Starvation"
"Global Desertification"
"Global Forest Canopy Loss"
"Global Seed Monoculturization"
"Global Soil Tilth Loss"

Only one of these has a Goreaphobian Church and Rothschi|ds Global Bank Carbon Tax Tithe,
which will do NOTHING to solve either or any of the human challenges on this list, instead the
monies will go to create micro-dictatorships around the world in the so-called 'poor countries'.

[John Denton]

Sad to see potentially rational people collapse in ineffectual cynicism, but, they're a sure sign that the left has the answers. Hooray!

[GirlUsingBrain]

I will be in Nepal in January. I am trying to see some of the earth's fascinating features and wonderful creatures before they disappear.

[John Denton]

Be sure to pet an elephant. When I rode my bike into Nepal two years ago it was the very first thing I did. It was helping a forester prune branches by the highway during one of the blockades. Amazing creatures.

[GirlUsingBrain]

Wow! That was a great experience! I will be on elephant safari and will be able to bathe with the elephants during their afternoon baths. I can't wait! I hope to see tigers, one horned rhinos, and ghariel crocodiles

I met seven orphaned baby elephants in Nairobi at the David Sheldrick Trust ... I actually got to go into the bush with them. It was an amazing experience! They were like mischievous little kids.

Oh, and fanned!

[dnegri]

Nepal's cabinet is a HOAX. Nepal is a HOAX. Mt. Everest is a HOAX.

This message brought to you by James Inhofe, Sarah Palin and hundreds of Fundamentalist preachers.

The truth behind who the deniers really are:

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[Chipher]

Those who use the word 'denier' to describe those who reasonable question the so-called 'science', since science, unlike, say, RELIGION, constantly resolves around challenging and rechallenging, are no different than the Izzies, who abuse their privileges and call anyone who challenges them 'deniers', and in the latest twist, 'illegal h8 speech', which I'm sure will include 'climate change' soon, since there is lotza moolah to be made by the Gorephobian Church and Rothschi|d's Carbon Bank.

[lbsaltzman]

I am not aware of anybody using the word denier towards those who rationally challenge or question science. The word denier is used in reference to scientifically illiterate people who raise absurd irrational arguments, and display a total ignorance of science.

[EndTheEcho]

I am glad that the Nepali Cabinet is raising awareness about this.

But I struggle with Everest climbers being part of this. The costs involved with an ascent is substantial, $26,000-65,000 plus 2-3 months of free time. When many US families can't afford to take a day of work to care for a sick child and many families are living paycheck to paycheck, the climbers are not as compelling a case to average people. I think it is an important issue, but not from the climbers point of view.

Now I would focus on the need of glaciers to provide water to rivers that millions depend on.

[fumes]

i hope they notice the soot and sulfates..
A new study, led by climate scientist Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute used a coupled ocean-atmosphere model to investigate how sensitive different regional climates are to changes in levels of carbon dioxide, ozone, and aerosols. The researchers found that the mid and high latitudes are especially responsive to changes in the level of aerosols. Indeed, the model suggests aerosols likely account for 45 percent or more of the warming that has occurred in the Arctic during the last three decades. Aerosols can influence climate directly by either reflecting or absorbing the sun's radiation as it moves through the atmosphere. The tiny airborne particles enter the atmosphere from sources such as industrial pollution, volcanoes and residential cooking http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.htmlls.html

[Publicola]

* That study was published in April from the same James Hansen-led NASA global warming research group that global warming deniers generally deride as practicing "bad science."

* The results of that study are also in full agreement with IPCC estimates of global warming via aerosol forcing.

* That study is also in agreement with the primary role that CO2 and other global warming greenhouse gas forcing agents including ozone have with respect to driving global warming. If the study's findings hold up to additional scrutiny what this means is that made-made global warming greenhouse gas forcing agents including increased atmospheric CO2 are still he dominant current global warming driver, and that man-made black carbon emissions - that is, a different man-made, major fossil fuel pollutant - play a more substantial secondary role in man-made global warming, particularly in the arctic region (though again said role is in agreement with IPCC estimates).

[fumes]

lol nice try pub..

NASA's Shindell:
"We will have very little leverage over climate in the next couple of decades if we're just looking at carbon dioxide," Shindell said. "If we want to try to stop the Arctic summer sea ice from melting completely over the next few decades, we're much better off looking at aerosols and ozone."
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html

[Publicola]

You seem to have missed my response to your taking that quote out of context in another thread, fumes - here's that response again:

The reason why Dr. Shindell is saying that we need to look at black carbon emissions with respect to the *arctic* in the next *few decades* is not because CO2 doesn't play a huge role with respect to global warming - it's instead because CO2 global warming forcing operates on a larger timescale than black carbon, and also because black carbon plays a more stronger role *in the arctic region* than globally.

But hey, you keep throwing that mud - as you know there's a sucker born every minute.