highest ski resort in world out of business - no snow, no glacier

[ensho]

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40709


Bolivian glacier 'disappearing'


Once home to the highest ski resort in the world and now reduced to a rocky mountainside, Bolivia's Chacaltaya range bears powerful witness to the precipitous melting of glaciers.

The rusting remains of a ski lift now dominate what was once the highest ski-run in the world perched on the Chacaltaya glacier at some 5,300 meters high.

Only a snowy ice cap of some 50 square meters remains of the magnificent Chacaltaya glacier which spread over 1,600 square meters in the 1950s.

"That's all there's left: a little piece of ice that is disappearing and will last no more than a year," said Alfredo Martinez, a veteran guide and founder of the Bolivian Andean Club.
The scientists, who have studied Chacaltaya for the past 15-20 years, had forecast it would completely disappear in 2015.

But with accelerated global warming spurring the ice to melt at the rate of six meters per year compared to about a meter in the 1940s, its demise has come six years earlier than expected.

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losing a ski resort is one thing. losing drinking water and water for food crops is quite another.

bad, bad news.

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. The last words, that Kurt Vonnegut wrote

was:


When the last living thing
Has died on account of us,

How poetical it would be
If Earth could say,
In a voice floating up

Perhaps
From the floor
Of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.
People did not like it here.”

[Xenotime]

2. It looks like we have pushed the environment past the point of no return.

We are officially the cancer of this planet.

[ensho]

3. true

nt

[n2doc]

4. ...

[krispos42]

5. And the people that used to vacation there...

...the rich and powerful, will still claim that there is no global climate change.


They know it, yet it will not change their "official" position on the matter.