What? African cows don't fart? Quick, import African cows, not Haitians, to the U.S.; problem solved.
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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Once again, we are 10,000 years through this 20,000 year interglacial. All of the ice sheets in temperate climes started shrinking 10,000 years ago. These ice sheets will continue shrinking through the next 10,000 years. There’s nothing which anyone can do about it.
Africa’s **rare** glaciers will disappear
DUH
I thought the African Glaciers disappeared several years back, only to make a sudden reappearance.
African glaciers are rare, but they’re Safe And Effective.
They don’t have any new findings so they recycle the old ones. This story about glaciers vanishing due to GW was discredited and explained 20 years ago.
Come back in a few hundred years after the mini-ice age rolls thru..
It was predicated before and the glaciers are still on the mountains.
What? African cows don't fart? Quick, import African cows, not Haitians, to the U.S.; problem solved.
And likely return in a few years after a cold snap
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BINGO!! Give IC Ken a ceegar, a big El Ropo Del Stinko.
I was just about to post almost the exact same statement.
Glaciers are pretty useless. So, what is the issue?
European colonialism to blame.
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