Picked up K-Love Buffalo faintly last night.
Picked up WFUF-FM Rochester with "Country Nights."
Picked up B 104.7 Syracuse with Boxer and country music last night and tonight. Tonight I stayed tuned and caught the first several minutes of "After Midnight", playing two of the same records Boxer had just spun.
Holy moley, there's a lot of dew tonight!
Not very many hummingbirds this year.
Lots of bees around right now.
Have heard coyotes several nights recently.
Surprised to hear The Wolf Peterborough's Luke Foster was in the hospital again.
Tuned into "TGI Nineties" Friday night on My FM. There were a lot of tracks I hadn't heard before, and some rare dance tracks, but overall I found it pretty boring. Not a lot of music you could party to on a Friday evening and John put hardly any phone calls on the air, despite the fact it was a request show.
The Wolf Peterborough played the same ID twice in a row tonight.
New York Post
Mount Everest glaciers are under threat and melting — thanks to climbers relieving themselves
By Ben Cost
Published Sep. 4, 2026, 10:05 a.m. ET
Urine trouble, Mount Everest.
After standing the test of time for 50 million years, the world’s tallest mountain is under threat from an unlikely source: our pee.
Urine deposited on glaciers is enough to melt over 150 tons of ice and snow on Mount Everest every year, according to an a-thaw-calyptic study in the Regional Environmental Change scientific journal, as reported by the Independent.
“Urine, with a temperature of around 37°C (human body temperature), causes the ice to melt,” wrote the study authors, who were sent by Nepal’s Survey Department to determine the impact of humans on Everest.
The international team of scientists studied the Khumbu Glacier, the home of the Everest base camp on the mountain’s Nepalese side. Hundreds of people congregate there each year before attempting to summit the 29,035-foot wonder.
These throngs have turned this majestic pinnacle into a “Burning Man”-esque tent city producing disruptive noise, Himalayan trash mounds, and of course, mountains of human waste.
While climbers have been required to pack out their poop in bags since 2024, climbers still relieve themselves directly onto the ice.
The researchers focused on the spring season in 2023, when roughly 2,000 people descended upon base camp, situated some 17,958 feet above sea level, the Daily Mail reported.
According to their calculations, the pee generated by the enthusiastic climbers totaled roughly 3.181 liters (0.8 gallons) per person. That means on a 50-day journey, the overall leakage hits 338,299 liters — more than 89,000 gallons.
The researchers estimated that the heat from heeding nature’s call could melt around 154 tons of ice in a single season.
When coupled with the thousands of gallons of gas used for heating and cooking, that figure jumped to 2,492 tons — enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
“The increasing number of climbers, trekkers and support staff, particularly at the campsite area, has intensified environmental impacts on the Khumbu Glacier,” the researchers wrote.
There’s one caveat to this trickle-down theory: The calculation assumes that all the heat from human pee transfers to the ice, which might not be true.
“This estimate is likely to represent an upper bound, as it does not account for heat losses through percolation into debris, runoff, incomplete heat transfer, or other dissipative processes that are difficult to quantify under field conditions,” the team wrote.
Nonetheless, the scientists are calling for Everest Base Camp to a dryer spot with less melting potential.
“Relocating the base camp to an ice–free site could help to mitigate human–induced glacier melt while fostering more sustainable mountaineering practices,” they wrote. “If implemented, relocation could reduce the stress on the Khumbu Icefall, enhance expedition safety, and contribute to a more resilient mountain ecosystem.”
Unfortunately, Everest is under threat from more than mountaineers making water.
The face is reportedly littered with more than 50 tons of trash, earning it the moniker “the world’s highest garbage dump,” according to National Geographic.
Last year, Nepal even shelved a scheme to have Everest adventurers bring their own trash down for cash after it failed to show tangible results, the BBC reported.
Part of the problem is that climbers would only haul back refuse from lower camps and not from the higher slopes, where the trash was most plentiful.
Therefore, the idea got binned.
I enjoyed last Sunday's episode of "The Sunday Magazine."
I also enjoyed Wednesday night's episode of "Ideas" about the school cars.
Liked the discussion on "Ontario Today" yesterday about siblings.
CHCH, don't blame the people, i.e. your potential viewers, for why you have to cancel your Saturday evening newscast.
Interesting the Kitchener Rangers are now going to be on two community stations.
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