Hi
A friend was telling me that he read something about shifting snowlines in TGO recently. I can't often find TGO in the shops. Does anyone recall which edition it was?
Many thanks,
Mandar
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 March edition of Trail, page 16 has an article about the changing snowline on Snowdon. Snow free by 2020! Not sure about TGO cos its to posh for where I live.
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Cheers Bazza! I'll get on the Trail
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 Yahoo news had a story about Kilimanjaro's summit being visible this year for the first time, due, allegedly, to global warming.
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 Photo was on the front page of the Grauniad Monday, pretty sorry looking sight.
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 I think the situation what with snowlines and global warming might be more complicated than it seems at first - where I live, part of the year, in Haute Savoie the snow line seems to be creeping down the mountain each year, but a few miles south around Mont Blanc the opposite is happening.
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 One train of thought is that the melting ice caps will divert the Gulf Stream so Britain may get colder, thus more snow.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Only jesting
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 I do get a bit fed up when every single change in the climate is blamed squarely at 'global warming' and man-made changes.
The climate on Earth mas been in a constant state of flux for millions of years. The Earth warms for a few hundred thousand years, then cools again to create an ice-age (last one was the 5th IIRC) or, as in the 1400's, a mini-ice age. While climatologist agree the Earth is getting warmer and GW is having a slight impact, it is nowhere near as bad as the doom-mongers will have us believe.
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 I reckon Snowdon will almost definitely be snow-free by the end of April at the very latest.
How scary is that?
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Maybe I could get "Horizon" to make a programme about it (it could be called "SUPERTHAW!!!" or something equally exciting in a vain attempt to stir up interest), and then get a few wind power companies to flog it off as fact to anyone who was willing to mention the obvious solution to the crisis (big windmills on Harris).
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 Currently I can only see one small patch of snow, just below the summit of Ben Lomond.
We're doomed, doomed I tell you.
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It's OK ptc you're getting more windmills than us so you'll be saved first.
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Yeah, Scotland will take off.
Or we'll all get static created fuzzy hair dos.
Or the wind'll really pick up, we'll break off at the border and float further north :oD
Just North east of Iceland please.
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 Pah! Snow and Ice freaks!
When will we be growing vines on the Costa Del Inverurie is what I want to know! ;¬)
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 Talk about snow line?Mount Kilimanjaro went totaly bald,stripped of its snowcap for the first time in 11,000yrs is that testimony of global warming?
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 We all "know"global warming is here its just A matter of how far will it go?What are its primary reasons? Manmade or just part of the cycle of life? No-one seems to be able to convince the U.S govt its anythink to worry about.
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Regards kilimanjaro 35% of the ice cap has gone in the last 12 years (I was there 16 years ago so probably wouldn,t recognise the place!) and a stagering 82% since its original mapping in 1912 !
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