global warning

I have to put on record that I'm totally against this global warming. It seems to me quite wrong. It's misdirected energy if you ask me. I've just found out that this highly respected and respectable group of Hindu worshippers have trekked to a remote part of the Himalayas - I'm sorry, I seem to have mislaid the precise details of their route - determined to find the stalactite which is the reincarnation of the God Shiva, only to find a puddle. This in my view is completely unacceptable. Added to which somebody seems to be pulling a fast one on these devout colleagues, because I don't see how stalactites, composed as they are of calcite and aragonite - otherwise known to you and me as salts such as calcium carbonate - which have dissolved and reprecipitated, can melt like icicles. Will the person please own up? Or am I missing some point or other?
Ah, I've just received a message. Apparently they are icicles. Or they were, I should say. Anyway it just goes to show. Whatever.