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Mammut Jacket Changes With Climate
By Jon on 19/02/2009 16:23:33
New waterproof increases breathability as it gets warmer like a, erm, pinecone.
situation, the structure of thepolymer contracts and increases the heat retention properties of thefabric.Schoeller call the fabric 'The Bionic Climate Membrane' and it even hasits own web site: www.c-change.chWhen it's warm or high levels of activity
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Michael Fish BASE Jump - Video
By Jon on 24/08/2012 12:40:53
Veteran weatherman gets radical to draw attention to the issue of climate change. Who'd have thunk it?
Michael Fish gets his BASE Jump thang on to raise awareness of climate change. Enjoy...
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Hillary Calls For Everest Park Protection
By Jon on 11/07/2005 11:39:33
Sir Edmund Hillary has called for the Sagamartha National Park to be placed on the World Heritage endangered list and for measures to be taken to protect the Everest region from climate change.
Everest conquerer Sir Edmund Hillary has spoken out to urgegovernments to take steps to protect the Himalayas from the effectsof climate change.His statement is timed to coincide with the meeting of the WorldHeritage Committee this week. The group
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Outdoors Diary - Friday 2 February 2007
By Alfred Todger on 02/02/2007 13:28:51
Legendary outdoors chronicler Alfred Todger muses on the impact of climate change.
Muckthwaite, Friday 2 February, 2007I don't much agree with climate change myself. A lot of it, if youask me, is psychochromatic or summat. Thing is if you don't believein it, how can it be happening. Leastways that were my attitude untilsomething
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Fifth Death In Two Months In 'Gorms
By Jon on 22/01/2007 11:50:06
A fifth fatal accident in two months in the same corrie has led to speculation than thinner conditions caused by climate change could be to blame.
A climber died after falling from a route in the Cairngorms lastweek, the fifth to die in the same area in two months. Local expertsare blaming sparse snow cover possibly due to climate change.The man reportedly fell 200 metres from Aladdin's Mirror
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Burn Your Ice Axe...
By Jon on 05/11/2001 10:16:19
Huge amounts of hot air generated by scientists has produced another terrifying climatic change story. This week it's goodbye to winter as we know it.
Yep, you might as well burn your ice axe, melt down your cramponsthen chuck the rest of your winter gear on top for good measure if astory in yesterday's Observer is correct.After the warmest October since records began in 1659, the paperquotes experts who say that winters are wa...
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And Here Is The Weather Forecast For 2080...
By Jon Doran on 10/06/2010 14:51:48
The new Met Office Book of the British Weather includes some very longterm projections indeed.
is the final, slim, 'The Future of the British Weather' section. Put together using 'the latest climate research', it's a set of computer-generated projections based on three levels of greenhouse gas output, 'low', 'medium' and 'high' and covering projections
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Everest In Gigapixels - Stunning...
By Jon on 18/12/2012 11:48:38
Check out this huge zoomable gigapixel image of Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse by David Brashears.
on Lhotse, which is bonkers.You can find the gigapixel Everest at www.glacierworks.org/the-glaciers/pumori-spring-2012.What's it for? It's part of a project tracking climate change and glacial retreat enabling researchers to compare images over the years
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Eiger North Face 'Impossible'...
By Jon on 13/05/2004 10:13:16
Swiss guides are warning that increases in temperature coupled with a lack of winter snow a rendering the classic North Face of the Eiger unclimbable.
Swiss guides are warning that the classic Eiger Nordwand may soonbe 'impossible' due to warmer conditions.According to a story on the Telegraph web site, the combination oflast year's hot summer, which caused problems all over the Alps, anda lack of snow over the winter means tha...
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Put Everest On Danger List
By Jon on 17/11/2004 11:33:41
Environmental campaigners including leading mountaineers are calling for Everest to be added to a UNESCO danger list as global warming threatens to devestate the area.
Environmental campaigners includingChris Bonington, ReinholdMessner and Stephen Venables are calling on UNESCO to place EverestNational Park (Sagarmatha National Park) on the World Heritage DangerList.Themelting of glaciers in the region has created huge lakes of meltwateroften h...
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