[NormsRevenge]

Snow cover the top of Mt. Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa, in this Tuesday, July 22, 2003 file picture.Africa's two highest mountains will lose their ice within 25 to 50 years, a local environmental group said Thursday Oct.12, 2006. Ice will disappear from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain and Mt. Kenya, which is Africa's second highest if deforestation and industrial pollution is not stopped, said Fredrick Njau of the Kenyan Green Belt Movement.Mt. Kilimanjaro has already lost 82 percent of its ice cover over 80 years, said Njau Mt. Kenya, one of the few places near the equator with permanent glaciers, has lost 92 percent of its ice over the past 100 years.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

[DuncanWaring]

Seattle has already lost all of its ice cap!!!

[bpjam]

Then the african should go bitch at the Chinese and the India since those are the countries doing nothing to stop 'global warming'. And in 25 to 50 years, we will be in a different solar cycle and they will start whining about how cold it is in the Sahara and we'll have to pretend that we give a sh!t.

[SIDENET]

Are we doomed yet?

[billhilly]

I'm 69. Hope I live to see it.

[NormsRevenge]

Mount Kilimanjaro's Glacier Is Crumbling
Andrea Minarcek
National Geographic Adventure
September 23, 2003

Last January, amateur adventurer Vince Keipper realized a long-time goal when he trekked to the top of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But the view from Africa's 19,340-foot (5,895-meter) rooftop hardly compared to what he saw on the way up the mountain's Western Breach.

"The sound brought our group to a stop," Keipper recalled. "We turned around to see the ice mass collapse with a roar. A section of the glacier crumbled in the middle, and chunks of ice as big as rooms spilled out on the crater floor."

Keipper grabbed his camera just in time to capture a section of Kilimanjaro's massive Furtwängler Glacier spilling onto the same trail his group had ascended the very night before.

Keipper's photos speak for themselves, dramatic proof of a scientific near-certainty: Kilimanjaro's glaciers are disappearing. The ice fields Ernest Hemingway once described as "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white in the sun" have lost 82 percent of their ice since 1912—the year their full extent was first measured.

If current climatic conditions persist, the legendary glaciers, icing the peaks of Africa's highest summit for nearly 12,000 years, could be gone entirely by 2020.

"Just connect the dots," said Ohio State University

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Photo courtesy of Vincent Keipper

Dr. Vincent Keipper was in the right place at the right time to get this photo of the crumbling Furtwängler Glacier on Mt. Kilimanjaro. The photo is dramatic evidence of the glacier's recession. Room-size blocks of ice tumbled across the trail Keipper had hiked the day before.

[TexasTransplant]

Yea and we were supposed to have 17 Hurricanes this year as well.

TT

[HawaiianGecko]

Geeze... and they say Bush campaigns on fear.  The silver lining in this cloud is more land to develop condos on.

 

[Rb ver. 2.0]

It's all irrelevent when the volcano blows, save the damage that won't happen due to melting snow mud flows.

[VOA]

Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya — will lose their ice cover within 25
to 50 years if deforestation and industrial pollution are not stopped,
environmentalists warned Thursday.

And if yuppy ecotourists keep flying in and out of the airport near
Mt. Kilimanjaro and keep breathing, peeing and poopin' on it...well, I guess
when thousands do that each year, there are some local heat inputs.

Not to mention the hot-air ballons floating around the place.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

It is my understanding that the ice cap on the mountain is shrinking because of the extended drought that Africa is now having. Nothing to do with "climatic warming."

[NewHampshireDuo]

My freezer hasn't had frost since 1962!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"This is a major issue because declining ice caps mean the water tap is effectively going to be turned off and that is a major concern."

This makes absolutely no sense. If the "water tap" depends on melting ice, guess what that means? The ice cap has to melt, ergo, disappear at some point.

I guess all the snow got shifted to Chicago today, anyway.

[gigster]

Planting 2 million trees in 4942 acres over 30 years equals
7.721 square miles of trees. That should take care of "Global Warming"!

[bboop]

Conveniently for the faux-scientists, they won't be around when this is proven false.

[thegreatbeast]

Great! That will open them up to developmet. How would you like you to see the vista from a first class hotel? Awesome!