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Subject: Where was Kyoto when we really needed it?

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Curmudgeon

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Date Posted: 09:19:23 02/18/07 Sun
In reply to: larry 's message, "The world's highest mountains shot up by 2km when a massive slab of rock anchoring them fell away" on 06:17:32 02/18/07 Sun

>well gee just by moving a mountand the weather goes
>bonky.
>
> >href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2
>281376.ece">http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/ar
>ticle2281376.ece
>
>Some scientists have even suggested that the rise of
>the Himalayas could have triggered the Ice Age by
>increasing the total amount of global rain and
>removing vast amounts of carbon dioxide from the air.
>
>The gigantic slab from the Indian continental plate -
>now 670km below the Earth's surface and sinking
>through the hotter, softer rock surrounding it at a
>rate of some 10cm a year - was predicted in 1989 by
>the Oxford geophysicist Philip England, who welcomed
>Professor Chen's paper, calling it "a good piece of
>forensic seismology".
>
>The region covered by the Himalayas and the Tibetan
>plateau should have the thickest part of the Earth's
>lithosphere - the crust plus mantle - due to the
>collision between the Indian and Asian continental
>plates 55 million years ago, which continues today
>with India inching north at a rate of 5cm a year. Yet
>surprisingly, volcanoes - usually found where the
>crust is thin - feature on the Tibetan plateau, and
>rifts have formed as the raised crust spreads
>eastwards into China, suggesting that it is far higher
>than can be supported by the underlying mantle.
>
>Professor England's explanation for this - that the
>lithosphere is thinner than expected due to the loss
>of a huge portion of the Indian mantle - was supported
>by little hard evidence until now.

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