Why Is Mt. Kilimanjaro Melting?
Spiegel Online writes here: The glaciers on top of Mt. Kilimanjaro are melting, but nobody really knows why. Researchers have turned the peak into an extreme laboratory to find the answer. But it’s a race against time — the information archived in the ice must be unlocked before it melts.
And here: Water Scarcity As Africa’s Lakes Shrink: The rapid decline of Africa’s lakes is illustrated dramatically by satellite images from a United Nations Atlas. Many Africans now face a tough future without access to safe drinking water.
The glaciers of Kilimanjaro are not melting. The temperature at the top never rises above freezing. There is considerable evidence that drier air is causing glacial retreat. This retreat has been observed over the last 100 years (so before significant anthropogenic CO2 emmissions). Suggested reading: Kaser, 2004, Modern Glacier Retreat on Kilimanjaro as Evidence of Climate Change: Observations and Facts, International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 24, pgs. 329-339
Are we so scientifically tuned that we are starting to forget about going back to the basics? We talked modern and with all the modern technologies we can invent and master, we are no wiser than the wise men of the olden days. Why the global changes in terms of the climate, weather patterns, etc etc…
Mankind if I may say did not and don not do justice to the world that our Creator put us in. Who controls the universal planetary revolutions and oscillations without crashing into each other?
Mankind has always been destroying his environment in the pretext of development and what about the consequences. I think that we should be sit down to have a good sensible thought about the why? rather than the what to do next, mindset.
No wonder that the jokes that weather forecasters can make one correct forecast out of ten.