Still looks pretty snow topped.
Posted on 10/19/2021 7:09:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that contributes least to global warming but will suffer from it most.
The report from the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies, released ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Scotland that starts Oct. 31, is a grim reminder that Africa’s 1.3 billion people remain “extremely vulnerable” as the continent warms more, and at a faster rate, than the global average. And yet Africa’s 54 countries are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The new report seizes on the shrinking glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda as symbols of the rapid and widespread changes to come. “Their current retreat rates are higher than the global average. If this continues, it will lead to total deglaciation by the 2040s,” it says.
Massive displacement, hunger and increasing climate shocks such droughts and flooding are in the future, and yet the lack of climate data in parts of Africa “is having a major impact” on disaster warnings for millions of people, WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said at Tuesday’s launch.
Despite the threats ahead to the African continent, the voices of Africans have been less represented than richer regions at global climate meetings.
The costs ahead are huge. “Overall, Africa will need investments of over $3 trillion in mitigation and adaptation by 2030 to implement its (national climate plans), requiring significant, accessible and predictable inflows of conditional finance,” the WMO’s Taalas said.
“The cost of adapting to climate change in Africa will rise to $50 billion per year by 2050, even assuming the international efforts to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius.”
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Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get. - Robert Heinlein.................
Al Gore in 2006... “The snows on Mount Kilimanjaro will be gone within the decade.”
The real inconvenient truth???
Mount Kilimanjaro still has snow on it’s top and that snow will be there long after you, I and Al Gore have passed from this earth.
Africa has glaciers? I would have never guessed.
When they predict weather accurately and quit fudging and cheating on numbers, I’ll believe their fake climate predictions. NOT!
Still looks pretty snow topped.
We went to Amboselli National Park in Kenya a few years ago.The park is close to Mount Kilimanjaro and it’s easily seen from everywhere in the park. While we were there (February) there was very little snow on the summit. But it does seem possible that the amount of snow varies throughout the year despite it being very close to the equator.
See Post #26
Africa’s glaciers are rare for two reasons: 1) the Ice Age is over, and 2) they are on the freakin’ Equator. It’s as simple as that.
Anyway, I doubt it’s a dramatic disappearance.
thought they were supposed to be GONE by now...
I call AP “agitation and propaganda”.
They use lies to try to divide and conquer.
Oh no! We’re all gonna die! The only way to fix the problem is to throw trillions and trillions of dollars at it because climate change is allergic to money.
Its called “regression to the mean,” in that we are still emerging from the late stages of the last ice age. As a result, glaciers that did not exist before the last ice age, will no longer exist when the climate regresses to the pre-ice age mean.
“Africa’s rare glaciers set to disappear”
Let’s recall that the planet has been warming since 15 000 years ago.
Why do you suppose the glaciers are “rare” in the first place.
No, silly ... global warming causes global cooling. Try to keep up.
The one thing I have learned over the years on this topic is human stupidity causes more human stupidity!
Looking at images on Google, the snow cap apparently varies quite a bit.
LOL!
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