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Posted Fri Sep 17 2010: from IRIN:
Nepal: Global warming swells glacial lakes, endangering thousands http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1284726843
 As global warming shrinks glaciers along the world's highest peaks, glacial lakes in Nepal are increasingly at risk of bursting the natural dams containing them - endangering the lives of tens of thousands in communities below, experts say. Nepalese authorities have identified about 20 "priority" lakes at risk of leading to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), and are using various methods to reduce the volume of water in some of them.... "GLOFs come very fast, carry great big boulders; they can push down rock walls and destroy river banks. The destructive impact is very, very high," Mool told IRIN by phone from Kathmandu.
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Didn't the Himalayan glaciers get the message about the IPCC being wrong about them?

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