Apocalypse Now: Melting Glaciers 'Threatening the Existence of Nearly 100 Million People'

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:24:00 +0000

It wouldn't be an enviro-scare story on climate change without a tasteless comparison to the 9-11 attacks: "Glaciers are part of the majestic landscape here, visible from almost everywhere in the neighboring cities of La Paz and El Alto, each with one million people. Their disappearance from certain vistas is as startling to Bolivians as the absence of the twin towers is to New Yorkers."

Clay Waters

So much for skepticism about climate change. "In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell A Story of a Changing Climate," Monday's front-page story from Bolivia by Elisabeth Rosenthal, called melting glaciers in the Andes "victims of global warming," a catastrophe "threatening the existence of nearly 100 million people."