A Mountain of Info
Have you heard of The Melting Mountains Awareness Program? I just found out about it. It arose in response to the concern of climate change and how mountains are proving to be so vulnerable to it. Reinhold Messner, the first person to summit Mt. Everest solo without bottled oxygen, has recently signed on as a spokesperson for the Melting Mountains program.Of course, he has seen some of the impact first-hand, in the pursuit of his career Over the past 100 years glaciers in the Canadian Rockies have lost as much as 75 percent of their volume. That's only in Canada, but the effect is not limited to the true north. The importance of mountains can not be overstated. Over half of the world’s population relies upon fresh water flowing from them. We all need to take a good, long look at our treatment of the planet's resources, and maybe even do a one-eighty.
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I was reading recently that California depends heavily on melting snow from the mountains for their fresh water. With Global Warming, the snow is melting earlier and earlier, and this is causing a problem, as the melting snow is running off right into the ocean, as reservoirs are at capacity. Instead of a later melting, the melting is occuring earlier. People are going to be in for a shock in the coming decades. It's too late for us to stop the mess that lies ahead of us. But it's not too late for us to stop making it worse. And it can get a whole lot worse.
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