See 'em soon if you wanna see 'em....

Maybe the GOP can station some Pug up there to rant about how global warming is some "lib conspiracy"....

Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

By Azadeh Ansari, CNN November 2, 2009 3:40 p.m. EST Scientists say Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers, which cap Africa's highest peak, may be gone within two decades. STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers, which cap Africa's highest peak, may be gone within 20 years
  
• Findings are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  
• Since 2000, the plateau's three remaining ice fields have shrunk by 26 percent, scientists found
  
• The study's authors blame the disappearing ice on increases in global temperature
  

(CNN) -- The ice and snow that cap majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania are vanishing before our eyes.

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.

Previous studies of Kilimanjaro's glaciers have relied on aerial photographs to measure the rate of the retreating ice. For this new survey, scientists climbed the mountain and drilled deep into the glaciers to measure the volume of the ice fields atop the 19,331-foot (5,892-meter) peak.

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.

it's getting scary dude <link>

the snow and ice in africa is melting. What we need to do is to increase taxes, kill joba and vote demokkkrats into office to save it.....get real bud

Nah, what we need Pugs to do is stop lying.

Can you handle that?

;-)

redtide:

the snow and ice in africa is melting. What we need to do is to increase taxes, kill joba and vote demokkkrats into office to save it.....get real bud

and where is the proof that a natural global cycle can be modified by democrats?

There ya go!

Back to the usual dopey Pug approach!

I know you couldn't stay away long!

;-)

redtide:

and where is the proof that a natural global cycle can be modified by democrats?