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Himalayan glacier melting doubled since 2000, spy satellites show

by ravoori on 6/20/19, 3:31 AM with 2 comments

• by thedevindevops on 6/20/19, 7:46 AM

  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/19/himalaya...

  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/himal...

  I hope these are readable, I always disable javascript on news sites so I'm not sure...

• by powerbroker on 6/23/19, 11:07 PM

  Suspiciously close timing to the recent wave of Mt. Everest (and other) mountain climbing... and the associated human waste added to the snow. This leads to a change in the albedo, and thus, to greater heat retention. I blame Tenzing Norgay for helping that English dude climb Everest. If it wasn't for those meddling sherpas, the mountains would have gotten away (with keeping the cloaks of snow).