ApocaDocs: Indonesia's last glacier will melt within years -- 'These glaciers are dying'

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Posted Fri Jul 2 2010: from AP, via DesdemonaDespair:


	Indonesia's last glacier will melt within years -- 'These glaciers are dying' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1278082682 Lonnie Thompson spent years preparing for his expedition to the remote, mist-shrouded mountains of eastern Indonesia, hoping to chronicle the affect of global warming on the last remaining glacier in the Pacific. He's worried he got there too late. Even as he pitched his tent on top of Puncak Jaya, the ice was melting beneath him.... By the time they were ready to head home, ice around their sheltered campsite had melted a staggering 12 inches (30 centimeters). "These glaciers are dying," said Thompson, one of the world's most accomplished glaciologists. "Before I was thinking they had a few decades, but now I'd say we're looking at years."

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