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Mountain Moisture Melting

Posted by michael on from the daddy,-tell-me-about-snow-again dept.

felis_panthera writes "Yahoo! News has a Full Coverage story on how global warming is causing the ice cap atop Mt. Kilimanjaro to melt. It goes on to say that it has shrunk by 80% in the last century, and will probably be completely gone in another two decades. The ice cap is believed to have formed some eleven millenia ago. Some African rivers have already seen a decrease in volume, and it is feared that the loss of the ice cap will also cause a drop off in tourism."

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  1. Tourism? by snofla · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A drop of tourism? Should we be worried about that?

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  2. Re:Human Uraemia! by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Today Kilimanjaro. Tomorrow???

    Step 1: Pollute the world,
    Step 2: Melt the glazier on Kilimanjaro.
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: Profit!
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  3. Re:Human Uraemia! by Hektor_Troy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Step 4: Profit!

    See ... it still works :-)

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  4. But Ice Ages, CO2 and Temperature are connected.. by CemeteryWall · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ice Ages, CO2 and Temperature are very strongly connected. See the graphs here. These suggest that the sun is not the main cause and human activity has prevented futher ice-ages. We wait to see what the other consequences are.