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Man's destruction of Africa revealed

timesonline.co.uk — Glaciers, lakes and forests have disappeared from Africa at an alarming rate in the past 36 years, satellite photographs have revealed.

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  • pervezalammzn, on 06/12/2008, -6/+6yes we all have to think on it, otherwise there will not be any solution after some years. All country's have to do work on it
    • kuatto, on 06/13/2008, -2/+12their corrupt government should take a break from robbing it's citizens and take some action
    • cdahlkvist, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1There is little need for solution. The article is filled with overhyped *****. Have a look yourself and you will understand why I am burying this as inaccurate.

      Campo-Mann Plantations
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=C ...

      Such a small plantation area. The area is still almost completely forest. The plantations take up about 400 sq. miles of about 6000 sq. miles that is the Campo-Maan District.

      Lake Chad
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=L ...

      Lake Chad is far from being 1/10th it's former size. Sure, there are more people using the lake for irrigation. What Lewis Smith neglects to mention is that the lake loses about 60% of it's water during the dry season.

      Lac Faguibine
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=M ...

      Same issue as the claims about Lake Chad. At high water it spans about 50-75 miles and 160 feet deep.
      http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/200203/L ...

      Damietta Promontory
      http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=E ...

      Shoreline retreats up to 58 m/yr. There are multiple causes (including and most attributable to man). Damming of the Nile has been a major cause but it is also due to rising sea levels and hydrodynamic forces of waves and currents

      It should also be noted that there is now a 6-km-long seawall built on the eastern tip of the Damietta Promontory which has nearly stopped the severe erosion.
    • PatriotMissile, on 06/14/2008, -0/+0i think we need to systematically enforce mandatory birth control on these baboons
  • dekuscrub, on 06/13/2008, -34/+27Buried for blaming it on "man."
    • nyx210, on 06/13/2008, -4/+26Sexist?
    • niroj, on 06/13/2008, -16/+4blame it on the whites they slaved our people and took our resources
      • Teh1337Pirate, on 06/13/2008, -5/+15Are you really that dumb? You're own people kidnapped each other and sold each other to the white man. Learn your history before you start blaming whitie for your problems.
        • SAc0balt, on 06/13/2008, -0/+7Actually the practice goes back further. When tribes would war, the victors would take slaves from the losing tribes. Africans would actually enslave one another.
      • fiktionous1, on 06/13/2008, -6/+3LOL

        I be hi skool gagawit I'ze gotz me edumacation go axe da man
      • demiurgency, on 06/13/2008, -0/+5I do like how feminists jump on any use of gender-typed language (chairMAN, MANkind, MANhole) as sexist, and will proceed to insist on using politically correct terms. However whenever the story turns to "Man's destruction of Africa", or "White man's enslavement of Africans", or "Men wage war" they seem perfectly content to leave the language untouched.
    • ErikHarrison, on 06/13/2008, -2/+9Well the top climatologist from Nasa blames it on man... And some lowly digger brushes it all off due to propaganda written by people not much smarter than he.... I'll put my faith behind a Nasa climatologist rather than an ignorant digger.
    • insanebrain, on 06/13/2008, -2/+6buried you for ignorance
    • MidnightRealism, on 06/13/2008, -2/+3Yes, the trees fell over on their own. You're an idiot.
  • DonSlice, on 06/13/2008, -14/+19Sensationalist much?

    Here's an article from the year 2000 called "Earth's Fidgeting Climate." It's straight from NASA and it has to do about the planet's climate cycles. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast20oct_1 ...
    • NovaPrime9, on 06/13/2008, -4/+11Since the year 2000, NASA has changed their opinion. A quick search reveals:
      http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/global_warming_world ...
      "Climatologists (scientists who study climate) have analyzed the global warming that has occurred since the late 1800's. A majority of climatologists have concluded that human activities are responsible for most of the warming. Human activities contribute to global warming by enhancing Earth's natural greenhouse effect."
      • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -7/+7You mean NASA has caved in to the political pressure.
      • ErikHarrison, on 06/13/2008, -4/+4Hey *****, the leading climatologist from Nasa acknowledges this as a problem, why in the hell would you go against that?
        • normalkid0615, on 06/13/2008, -3/+1some people TRUST our big brother, the media, the government,
        • skiddles, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1If by "leading climatologist" you mean the James Hansen, the guy who who accepted a 750K bribe to push his global warming theory, you may be disappointed to know that he could not even account for the y2k and had to adjust 7-8 years worth of temperatures. In the end it turned out that the 1930s was still the hottest decade and that the hottest temps on records in many places are STILL from the 1930s.

          Can you say oops. Your tax dollars at work folks.
  • dsa202, on 06/13/2008, -22/+4Wow, who cares? Who none of us live there, and none of them have the internet. Maybe they should try and help themselves for once.
    • Netik09, on 06/13/2008, -6/+13Geez. Can you please go die under a rock or something?
    • mnortei, on 06/13/2008, -5/+9Ignorant *****
    • fiktionous1, on 06/13/2008, -5/+3omg! you MUST care!! Your a racists if your don't!
    • Metman, on 06/13/2008, -3/+3While I think your pessimism is retarded. I think it is somewhat ironic that people will be bashing you then going back to their plastic lives never to give it a thought again. While that comment in itself angers people - the one's who take it personally are usually the 10 second activists.
  • Anachronus, on 06/13/2008, -7/+6Only if you believe in "anthropogenic" warming.
  • SAc0balt, on 06/13/2008, -13/+30Bwahahahahahaha... YES! YES! As a member of the white race, I see that out secret and insidious plan is coming along quite nicely. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to head out and cancel welfare applications, frame black athletes for rape and murder, plant drugs on minorities and arrest them and make certain that those in the ghetto stay there.
    • vidaliasweet, on 06/13/2008, -3/+5A loss of natural resources caused by overpopulation is kinda the opposite of what a mad eugenicist would want, no?
      • fiktionous1, on 06/13/2008, -1/+7I think he was hinting that its the white mans fault, more specifically American White Males
    • ZurMacht, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3Don't forget invent AIDS!
      • SAc0balt, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1*groan* Could you possibly take care of that for me this evening? I have a few chores around the White Oppression HQ this evening. You know, dishes and taking out the cremated remains of minorities. Man, and here I thought slavery was abolished!
  • oINS1GHT, on 06/13/2008, -7/+28Africa had glaciers....?
    • nyx210, on 06/13/2008, -1/+14Africa isn't 100% jungle. You know that there are mountains there, right?
      • OzzieAlThor, on 06/13/2008, -7/+8I guess I had never heard of a mountain being called a glacier before.

        The More You Know....
        • yetAnotherCroc, on 06/13/2008, -1/+18Mountains are usually part of mountain ranges (of which there are several in Africa.) Mountain ranges often have glaciers at certain altitudes. In fact thats the definition of a glacier. A body of Ice that slowly moves down a mountainside or valley.
    • adent1066, on 06/13/2008, -1/+6Ever heard of The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway ?
      • bob_the_alien, on 06/13/2008, -2/+4no, actually, I haven't, I was surprised by the glaciers as well.
      • unknownsoldierX, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1I've heard the name. I assumed it was a story about cocaine. :)
    • Teh1337Pirate, on 06/13/2008, -0/+4They also get penguins at certain times of the year
      • Flytrap, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3Yup we do. We get penguin migrations in colonies numbering in the hundreds of thousands of penguins coming past South Africa every year. Its a major tourist attraction - the stuff of National Geographic, only you can be right there in the thick of it all http://www.greenforce.org/destinations/south_afric ...
    • ErikHarrison, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Yes.
    • FeartheKnighted, on 06/13/2008, -2/+1Duh, in the Sahara. But that was before global warming killed them :*(
  • poddys, on 06/13/2008, -8/+6I sometimes wonder if the mainstream news reports are really telling us the truth.

    Maybe 5 years ago there were lots of reports about Global Warming, but the mainstream news pretty much poo-pooed the concept. Now things are taken more seriously, but they are talking about the dangers of sea levels rising in maybe the next 100 years. The internet reports I read seem to indicate that things are moving rather faster than anticipated, so does that mean we might have to worry about serious climate change in the next 20 years not the next 100?

    It's a scary thought....
    And I didn't even mention Nibiru...
    Ooops - now I did...
    • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -4/+1The mainstream media has been hyping this global warming for years, they never poo-pooed it.
    • PhenomenJan, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Oh, they poo-pooed it alright... THEY POO-POOED THE CRAP OUT OF IT!!!
  • Spartyon, on 06/13/2008, -6/+1front page?
  • jakerator, on 06/13/2008, -5/+6photoshop forever! :)
  • Ruger11mcrdpi, on 06/13/2008, -6/+22RAINFORESTS OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!
  • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -2/+11Kilimanjaro has been attributed wrongly in the past to anthropogenic global warming, they got it right in this article when they inferred it was mostly from the deforestation of the cloud forests that surrounded the peak. Nothing new, but at least it shows that the respecteive governments know that they cant keep up these rates of deforestation.
    • BeforeSputnik, on 06/13/2008, -1/+4Are you implying that deforestation isn't anthropogenic?
      • pintomp3, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2those trees had it coming.
      • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -2/+1No, he said it wasn't anthropogenic global warming. But those who beleiive in AGW probably can't understand the logic involved in reading simple sentences.
        • BeforeSputnik, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1I think most people who read that comment saw:
          "attributed wrongly.. to AGW, they got it right (as in 'correct') in the article when they inferred it was mostly from the deforestation." Only when it is pointed out did i see it as possibly meaning:
          "they got it right (as in 'right there') in the article." I attribute that more to poor sentence construction than to inability to understand the logic invovlved in reading simple sentences.
        • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Exactly. Many AGW proponents tout Kilimanjaro as one of the first "signs" that Earth is experiencing the effects of the start of a period of warming directly related to an increase in CO2, which is not true. The cloud forests surrounding the peak acted like a sponge, literally, for water vapor and decreased ambient temps in that area. Winds blew up the slopes, pushing the H20 dense air, keeping the caps nice and icy. When those cloud forests were removed, that H2O source was also, resulting in dryer, warmer air being pushed up the mountain. So of course we would see the cap melt, but it has nothing to do with AGW. The cause is still anthropogenic, but it is not due to and increased world temp.
        • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -2/+0Sounds to me more like you didn't read everything well enough. I can't please everyone with how i write. Ces't la vie. Plus, if that's all you can do to the argument is poke at my grammar ... *shrug*
        • skyteria, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2We can now poke at your French too.
  • adent1066, on 06/13/2008, -5/+9Luckily, most of these countries in Africa have been independent from their European colonial powers for for this whole period in question, otherwise the Europeans would be blamed for raping the land.
    • Hetman, on 06/13/2008, -2/+10Do not kid yourself they are still going to be blamed. And of course America is going to be blamed.
      • Erythroxylum, on 06/13/2008, -4/+5Yup. Always somebody else's fault with Third Worlders. How about this: All the people urbanising, deforesting and spreading agriculture are...white. They came over on silent helicopters in the middle of the night, painted themselves brown, assumed the positions of the locals (who were rounded up and sent to - oh, I don't know - the Kuiper Belt) and went about raping poor old Mother Earth.
        Kill all white people - every last man, woman and child! Then we (humanity, which wouldn't include me since I'm a White Devil) can all go back to living in caves and dying of old age at 25.
  • republicker, on 06/13/2008, -8/+15Africans kill each other very efficiently.
  • thedogfatherx, on 06/13/2008, -11/+7Thats sad but what do you expect? It's Africa. There people are very good at destroying themselves and everything else.
    • sunnyoraish, on 06/13/2008, -2/+2as if America and Europe are better....huh
      • korvan504521, on 06/13/2008, -1/+2I think historically its been shown we're better at both destroying and building. Africa as a whole seems to mostly still need to work on their "building".
    • EvoPsy, on 06/13/2008, -6/+2Pretty sure Africans were just fine before Europeans decided to exploit them.
    • metric7, on 06/13/2008, -1/+4Pretty sure you're retarded
    • EvoPsy, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Pretty sure you've never lived in Africa.
  • LucerinRed, on 06/13/2008, -3/+3A LOT of this has to do with the changing of the poles, which was also why people theorized for a while that the earth was going to fall on it's side like Uranus, my personal favorite doomsday theory.
    • EvoPsy, on 06/13/2008, -3/+1Alright, just out of curiosity.

      How do we know which way is up in space? Like how did north become north? Why isn't the south pole the north pole?

      I'm serious, no one every explained this to me.
      • ErikHarrison, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1we don't it's just how it was perceived, and so it stayed.

        Lucerin, the poles don't flip, but their properties do.
        • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+0Ahh thats a good way to explain it :)
      • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1Once upon a time there were two directions. People got tired of never knowing which was which, so one day the village idiot came up with an idea. He said evil spirits live in one direction. They were called the Souths. So we will call that direction south. The people were ecstatic. They now could know one direction. It was also useful, as when something bad happened they could blame the evil South spirits as in , "That whole deal went south on me." or "My car went south on me." People were so happy with the village idiot that they made him king. He is remembered for two great achievements during his reign. The first was to name the other direction north. Why? "Well I just like the sound of it." he said. The people cheered such reasoning and declared their king to be the greatest in human history. The other was taxes. He decreed that all people should bring 10% of their wealth every year and give it to him because he was king and did so much for them that he deserved it. The people readily agreed to that! After all, had he not taken care of them and solved the really pressing problems of their lives? And they all lived happily ever after. That is, until the king went south on them.

        That is how south and north got their names.

        ;)
      • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+0When people refer to north their refering to Magnetic North, meaning which way the ambient magnetic fields of Earth are oriented. Directions like north, south, etc are only applicable when talking about planets and other objects like that. There really isn't any direction in space, at least nothing that we could describe with current vocabulary.

        Poles have shifted before. This would mean that compasses would point south, not north. Pretty cool stuff, some people theorize it could be a walk in the park, others say that it would cause hell on earth. The only thing i know is that many species depend on the orientation of these fields to live, and that messing with them could cause some problems.
      • LucerinRed, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1well, as with Uranus, it's on it's side in relation to it's orbit around the sun. That is how it would be on it's side.
    • DeFex, on 06/13/2008, -1/+3first blame the white man, now the poles? kurwa!
    • Hetman, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1Can someone say waterworld. Hell yea I always wanted to be a pirate.
  • blarch, on 06/13/2008, -0/+8we'll finally be able to climb kilimanjaro in a t-shirt?
  • Eezyville, on 06/13/2008, -4/+4First Africa gets raped, then Asia, next Europe or Russia.
    • DeFex, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3by who?
      • Eezyville, on 06/13/2008, -2/+2By whoever's doing it to Africa. The corperations, governments, and civilians who want the money.
      • DaHuuuuuudge, on 06/13/2008, -3/+1America!

        ...***** yeah.
      • slantyeyed, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1i don't think anyone wants to rape the siberian wilderness. the former USSR barely even touched the place
        • jspegele, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1The still have some ice left up there that we can melt. Excuse me while I start my car and let in run in the driveway.
      • xtal3, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1GA LAC TUS
  • bffoley, on 06/13/2008, -0/+9Wait a minute, when people build canals and irrigation for farms, the sources of water they pull from shrink?

    Wow, my mind is blown!
  • Erythroxylum, on 06/13/2008, -8/+8Sometimes I wish I was a Third Worlder so that it meant never having to take any responsibility for my actions. 'Yes, I ran over your wife. Repeatedly. And then I picked up her corspe and stabbed it with an icepick whilst rubbing my genitals on her face. But it was because I was in a bad mood because my country was a colony of a foreign power 50 years ago. So you see, it's somebody else's fault.'
    And yet, eating insects and raping children for good luck isn't really my thing. I think I'll just stick with what I've got.
  • tdmand, on 06/13/2008, -4/+7I wonder what a satellite photo of North America from the 1700s compared to one from the 1900s would look like. I know it's a longer time scale, but the point is that a majority of African nations are still developing. Instead of worrying about their environment, how about we worry about the people that have to live in filth and squalor. We can start by encouraging the use of condoms (for AIDS prevention). Millions die by the hand of religious missionaries telling people they will go to hell if they use them.
    • Hetman, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3At this point in time it is going to take a lot more than condoms to stop the aids epidimic in africa.
      • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Africans first need to raise the general level of education. That is people must learn to read and write, and become good at math. Then they can learn science. After all that they may begin to see the difference between tiny invisible bacteria and viruses that require modern methods to eradicate and tiny invisible evil spirits that require charms to control. Then they will change their behavior.

        We cannot do this for them. Only they can learn for themselves. What we know is not what they know. Telepathy does not work. Sending another boatload of money just makes their petty dictators wealthier. Wealth the dictator buys more guns and goons to stay in power with, keeping the people ignorant and under control.
    • Tarree, on 06/13/2008, -0/+4Africans are not influenced by western religions not to use condoms as much as by their own religions and mythologies. You are just blaming missionaries because you have been taught to blindly accuse western ideas. Well, it's not our fault that Africans believe that males must have frequent unprotected intercourse with as many women as possible or go mad.

      Further, the West has spend millions and millions on educating Africans to the truths of science and disease control and they don't accept these truths, preferring to adhere to their own truths taught them by their religions, myths, and folklore.

      Just telling people the answer to a complicated question they have no background to understand just doesn't seem to work. Go figure.
      • Screwy1138, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Thank you. Let's also forget all the health care and medicine that these evil missionaries provide. All of the children they save from famine and death, worthless. Their time and money that they poor into it, a total waste, helps no one.

        tdmand, you're an idiot. Get on a plane, go over there, work there taking care of the people for 6 months and preach your atheism, I'd commend you. But it's much easier to sit and bitch about those christians who actually try to take care of people.

      • EvoPsy, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Don't generalize.
  • richardpryor, on 06/13/2008, -11/+0We let black people thrive on their own and they are still making the same kind of ***** huts they were making 1000 years ago.

    They are not an innovative race.
    • DeFex, on 06/13/2008, -4/+1sure they are, they invented..um there must be something.
    • lordtyros, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1Goddamn, when did Digg turn into stormfront?
    • AllyOfReason, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Have you noticed your name is "richardpryor"?

      You make absolutely no sense on top of being a bigot.
  • soumynona, on 06/13/2008, -4/+7Africans just don't have any respect for nature. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go protect my newly built McMansion from these ***** black bears! Trespassing on my land, who do they think they are?
    • Hetman, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1I can tell you what the black bear is not anymore. And that is the highest thing on the food chain. Bears need to sit down, shut up before we put them all in a zoo.
    • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1Same thing happens everywhere. We have black bears and wolves, they have elephants and lions, asians have tigers, etc. Its no excuse. I know your being sarcastic though :)
  • pathouston22, on 06/13/2008, -11/+5Really...who actually cares about Africa? That place is a clusterf#$%. Send a dollar today, they'll need two dollars tomorrow - if they don't have their head chopped off by then.
    • EvoPsy, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Yeah, who the ***** cares about a few hundred million people right.
  • thedinomeister, on 06/13/2008, -2/+2"to be a valid scientific hypothesis, there should be some kind of climate behavior observable in nature that would be inconsistent with the theory that mankind is responsible for global warming. But instead, everything we observe has now become consistent with the theory. Floods and droughts. Too much snow and too little snow. More hurricanes and fewer hurricanes. It is sometimes pointed out that a theory that explains everything really explains nothing." - Roy Spencer
  • ASSASSYN360, on 06/13/2008, -5/+3Man has been destroying our origin (AFRICA) for thousands of years.
  • ErikHarrison, on 06/13/2008, -3/+4Wow this isn't about Africans and how ***** up they are, it's about the planet and the true perils that exist. Read up on the comments from Nasa's top climatologist, someone much smarter in this subject than most of the ignorant posters that deny the problems that lie ahead. Keep dreaming and stay stuck in the ***** matrix. Ignorance is bliss right?
  • 4eloBek, on 06/13/2008, -3/+3I think "white" is missing?
  • AsylumAleikum, on 06/13/2008, -2/+3Man does not destroy Africa, Africans do.
    • kra1813, on 06/14/2008, -0/+0Thanks for the laugh! That was great!
  • CoMpUtErITGuY, on 06/13/2008, -7/+1Not my country. Who cares?
  • boonesfarm, on 06/13/2008, -1/+4Glaciers melted before man crawled out of the ocean. Yet another good article tarnished by the irresponsible presumption that we're the primary cause of climate change. But, there is no doubt that Africa has been deforested and mined ruthlessly over the past few decades. There's a very interesting segment in this months Fast Company about the effects of Chinese and Western involvement in Africa. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/126/special-re ... ....if you're curious.
    • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+0Past few decades? Past hundred and fifty years is more like it ...
    • MidnightRealism, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1Anthropocentric climate change isn't mentioned in the article you stupid *****.
      • boonesfarm, on 06/16/2008, -0/+1Thanks for the helpful tone. When they discuss the ice loss on Kilimanjaro in an article titled "Man's Destruction of Africa Revealed"...... I inferred that they were talking about anthropocentric climate change.
        [this is where I could call you a name that insults your intelligence]
  • blipblopblip, on 06/13/2008, -1/+2...But what about Africa's destruction of Man?
  • gentlementlemen, on 06/13/2008, -2/+1And nothing of value was lost.
  • hiteshsharma, on 06/13/2008, -3/+2"From 2000-05 the population rose 2.32 per cent each year.."
    And I thought that Africa'a Killing Machines and Governments were working efficiently to decrease that rate.
    • Andrwmorph, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1They breed like rabbits in third world countries.
    • Specializedone, on 06/13/2008, -0/+0Sadly enough, i had the same idea.
  • MidnightRealism, on 06/13/2008, -4/+2Anthropocentric climate change/warming isn't mentioned at all, with the bulk of the focus on deforestation and desertification and yet there are deniers all over the comments here. I can't believe how goddamned stupid you people are.
  • Andrwmorph, on 06/13/2008, -4/+3I thought piles of dead bodies made good fertilizer.
  • AllyOfReason, on 06/13/2008, -4/+1Buried as inaccurate.
  • webkami, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2Have somebody identified this *Man* yet

    /s
  • Acuraracer32tl, on 06/13/2008, -2/+1Wait.. What? There are glaciers in Africa? WTF?
  • sddream, on 06/13/2008, -0/+2I blamed the whitey and if it's not enough, the Chinese.


    People, nothing in this article is about global warming. It's really simple, slash and burn agriculture plus overpopulation lead to deforestation, less tree mean less precipitation in the air along with the soil erosion and more people using water, here's come the drought, and both the lake and glaciers shrink.

    Funny how Eritrean, who are portrayed as aggressive country by MSM, are the one that's protecting the land the best.
  • yourpalOZ, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1OK If Africa no longer existed what then?
  • dstz, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1You could have made the same point with noting how Europe is rather doing ok despite huge modifications in its environment in the last centuries. But your weird strawman is just weird.
  • Heysal, on 06/13/2008, -1/+3Yes of course they are experiencing destruction. They continue to overpopulate beyond carrying capacity even in areas where the only way they can feed the already existing population is via foreign aid.
    That and (re: warming) much of Africa is sitting over a mantle plume...duh.
  • freedomfrog, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1It may be too late to save the continent. Too bad there is no Continental undo button.

    *CTRL-Z*

    *CTRL-Z*

    Nope, doesn't work.
  • nwoantibody, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1Man or white man's destruction of Africa like they ***** up the Americas 500 years ago and the Middle East in the past 10 years.
  • knobtwiddler, on 06/13/2008, -1/+1oh noes!!!!!!... global warmings?
  • kra1813, on 06/14/2008, -0/+0So what has been revealed? An old low res photo compared to a new high res photo? It really doesn't show *****. All it really shows is what some one else wants you to see. Just like politics!
  • sdenterprise, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1The fact is that the earth is warming and it is warming at an increasing rate due to human consumption and waste.

    The main issue is that people want to have their cake and eat it, but the planet will not stand for it any longer and people with the strength will lead the way... The changes in human behaviour are coming soon! you wait and see! I promise... we are about to see a revolution...

    The fact is that I am not willing to argue the point with people who think it is OK to rape the planet of its resources, that is no longer my challenge... I am looking to make the world a better place with the support of people who are willing to understand the issues and take the opportunity to be at the forefront of global change...
  • Dante2005, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1(MrBaby) - Man is destroying Africa,
    There is just no stopping him.
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