Kilimanjaro not losing snow due to global warming


	Kilimanjaro not losing snow due to global warming

willhelm

6-12-2007 6:59 PM

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6-14-2007 7:45 AM

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A better title for Goracle's movie: A Convenient Lie.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53ffefe6-c7d7-4d17-9331-6cb39ad8b303/3A8BE0C3-3273-4E66-933F-3C0DFFA7C723/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/06/mt_kilimanjaro_feb_21_2000.html" href="http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/06/mt_kilimanjaro_feb_21_2000.html" style="font-size: 11px;">global-warming.accuweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://global-warming.accuweather.com/2007/06/mt_kilimanjaro_feb_21_2000.html"><P>Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, has been losing snow and ice cover for more than 100 years. The ice cap was about 12.5 square miles in 1889, based on a rough survey. In 2003 it was just over 1.5 square miles. Some have pointed to this melting as a sign of global warming. A new article in <A target=" n" href="http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/55553/page/1"><EM>American Scientist</EM></A> suggests this is not the case. </p> <P>Researchers Philip W. Mote and Georg Kaser confirm that glaciers at the mid-latitudes have been shrinking due to atmospheric warming, but they say that the glaciers on Kilimanjaro - located just 3 degrees from the equator - have shrunk for different reasons, probably unrelated to AGW. In fact, most of the shrinkage occurred prior to 1950 and the most probable explanation for the changes have to do with reduced snowfall and increased solar radiation.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A8BE0C3-3273-4E66-933F-3C0DFFA7C723/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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