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Hater Depot
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 Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:38 pm Post subject: Time to re-write "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
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If current conditions persist, climate change experts say, Kilimanjaro's world-renowned glaciers, which have covered Africa's highest peak for centuries, will be gone within the next two decades.
"In a very real sense, these glaciers are being decapitated from the surface down," said Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. Thompson is co-author of a study on Kilimanjaro published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study's authors blame the disappearing ice on increases in global temperatures and diminished snowfall at Kilimanjaro's summit.
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The ice sheet that capped Kilimanjaro in 2007 was 85 percent smaller than the one that covered its plateau in 1912, paleoclimatologists explained in the study.
The mountain's ice cover shrank about 1 percent a year from 1912 to 1953, a rate that has accelerated in recent years. From 1989 to 2007, that rate jumped to 2.5 percent a year. Since 2000, the plateau's three remaining ice fields have shrunk by 26 percent, scientists found. |
On the other hand, Al Gore has tennis courts in his backyard, so I'm sure we should pay no attention. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: Time to re-write "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
| glaciers, which have covered Africa's highest peak for centuries, will be gone within the next two decades. |
Those bildergurgers have been at it again. |
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Rusty Shackleford
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| Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| So what? It's smaller than it was 100 years ago. 100 years is nothing in geological terms. Doesn't prove or disprove anything. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| So what? It's smaller than it was 100 years ago. 100 years is nothing in geological terms. Doesn't prove or disprove anything. |
That's the same thing the dinosaurs said after the meteor hit Yucatan. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Rusty Shackleford wrote: |
| Doesn't prove or disprove anything. |
Yes, neither does the fact that 30% of the arctic has melted in the past 25 years. As I say...a conspiracy. |
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