
June 17th 07, 01:35 PM
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Just popped in
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:24:40 +0100, "lawrence jenkins"
wrote:
"RWood" wrote in message
roups.com...
On Jun 17, 12:56 am, "lawrence jenkins" wrote:
Hello all just a quick visit (thankfully I hear you say)
BBC et al: (sod it what's wrong with "and others") a bunch of self
loathing
and very affluent drama queens
Let us compare this
The last snows of Kilimanjaro
By Euan McIlwraith
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4362561.stm
or
Monday, 19 February, 2001, 00:50 GMT
Kilimanjaro's white peak to
disappearhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2001/san_francisco/11778...
or
Tuesday, 20 August, 2002, 11:03 GMT 12:03 UK
'Global warming threatens Africa'
Kilimanjaro's ice cap is
shrinkinghttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2204756.stm
How about the
Independenthttp://environment.independent.co.uk/article1604091.ece
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro
Hemingway's snows - one of the wonders of the natural world - will soon
be
as dead as the old man himself. More than 80 per cent of them have melted
away; the picture on the right shows Kilimanjaro 10 years ago, the one on
the left how it looks today. Within 20 years the snow will all have gone,
for the first time in 100,000 years - and, as the world continues to heat
up, it will not come back. Glaciers are melting worldwide; even in Tibet,
on
the very roof of the world, they are being reduced by half every decade.
To this
http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/arti...rticleID=34106
I could go on and mention Bonio, Al Bore, Annie Lennox, the Guardian, but
you get the picture and I've already out stayed my welcome.
Hey go do the math.
Yes indeed, go away you tedious ignor*us. You know absolutely nothing
about any aspect of meteorology.
Thanks for taking time out from your arduous tour with the Stones.
Catch yer later.
The real Ronnie Wood is actually a decent bloke! (not name-dropping,
just hearsay).
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