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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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Maybe we should mourn that the glaciers that once covered Chicago are gone.....
There go the polar bears.
Finally, Hemmingway’s riddle of the leopard is solved!
He climbed to the permanent snows at the top of Kilimanjaro to get away from the idiot ecowarriors!
goes to show that it isn’t green house gases, but land mass that causes glaciers to melt...
and that big old ball in the sky heating it up...
“Where are the snows of yesteryear?”
— Villon
If these glaciers are that rare, they were probably caused by global cooling.
> Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades <
Step 1: Issue a dire prediction for sometime in the future.
> Africa will need investments of over $3 trillion <
Step 2: Ask for lots of money.
All that’s missing is Step 3: Stern lectures from worthies like Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, the Pope, etc. But maybe that will come later.
That’s okay, we may lose the rare African glaciers, but we’ll still have well done African glaciers.
The glaciers melting had NOTHING to do with climate change. The locals harvested the trees off the mountain causing the warm winds to run up the mountain which caused a lot of the ice to melt.
“And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas time...”
I am sure they are lying.
The last glaciers around me disappeared about 16,000 years ago when the Indians started burning coal to run their casinos.
I remember that one.
Notice that the mass media tried to ignore it—and there were no press conferences with “sorry, we f&^%ed up”.
And just why is this a bad thang?...............
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OMG, what is new here? Arctic ice will disappear, and Africans will be hardest hit. The schtick never changes. Been the same story for decades.
Here, the 1600 feet of ice over my lot receded a little earlier. Also due to carbon footprints left by dinosaurs.
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