http://www.green-blog.org/2009/01/07/gore-we-cannot-negotiate-with-the-facts-the-truth-and-the-consequences/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.green-blog.org/2009/01/07/gore-we-cannot-negotiate-with-the-facts-the-truth-and-the-consequences/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 List References and Excerpts to Accompany Briefing Paper on Global Warming | West Coast Climate Equity Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:24:47 +0000 http://www.green-blog.org/?p=859#comment-2269 [...] In virtually all of the mountain ranges of this planet, the glaciers are now melting rapidly in the Alps, in the Andes, in the Rockies and most ominously in the Himalayas which contain number 100 times as much ice and snow of all of the mountains in Europe. The leading Chinese scientist who studies ice, professor Yao Tandong calls the Tibetan plateau the water tower of Asia. It feeds the great rivers of Asia, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Salween and the Irawati, the Mekong, the Yangtze and the Yellow. 1.4 billion people depend for more than half of their drinking water on the rivers and spring systems that flow from the ice of the Tibetan plateau, which is now melting at an alarming rate. Al Gore, We cannot negotiate with the facts, the truth and the consequences, Speech in Poznan, 18 December 2008, http://www.green-blog.org/2009/01/07/gore-we-cannot-negotiate-with-the-facts-the-truth-and-the-conse... [...] [...] In virtually all of the mountain ranges of this planet, the glaciers are now melting rapidly in the Alps, in the Andes, in the Rockies and most ominously in the Himalayas which contain number 100 times as much ice and snow of all of the mountains in Europe. The leading Chinese scientist who studies ice, professor Yao Tandong calls the Tibetan plateau the water tower of Asia. It feeds the great rivers of Asia, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Salween and the Irawati, the Mekong, the Yangtze and the Yellow. 1.4 billion people depend for more than half of their drinking water on the rivers and spring systems that flow from the ice of the Tibetan plateau, which is now melting at an alarming rate. Al Gore, We cannot negotiate with the facts, the truth and the consequences, Speech in Poznan, 18 December 2008, http://www.green-blog.org/2009/01/07/gore-we-cannot-negotiate-with-the-facts-the-truth-and-the-conse... [...]

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