© "In 2000, Thompson and his team made the first modern measurements of Kilimanjaro's ice. However, this does not mean the Earth is not warming. This would swamp homes and fields with a layer of rubble up to 15m thick, leading to the loss of the land for a generation. And for the rest: a few decades (although that projection is being routinely revised downwards, depending on the glacier).Why?
Glaciers all over the world are disappearing in what should be the subject of “international concern”, according to a new article in the leading journal Science. Since 1912, when aerial photographers documented Kilimanjaro's glaciers, the mountain's ice fields have shrunk around 85% in area, decreasing from 12 square kilometres in size to just 1.85 square kilometres. [It also turns out the glaciers aren't shrinking at the same pace. See Meanwhile, the Thwaites Glacier, also in West Antarctica, is disintegrating. These glaciers cover 726,000 square kilometres, that is, 0.5% of the Earth’s land surface. Thompson drilled cores from the three glaciers ringing the summit, estimating that the ice bodies date back at least 11,700 years.
The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912. The portraits in Simon Joseph, Moraine between Moir and Pofu Camps, 4400 metersJames Masawe, Moraine between Moir and Pofu Camps, 4400 meters Through his emphasis on textures, van Coller's images reveal how the glaciers integrate and embody the processes my instruments coldly quantify. Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt.
Notably, however, annual rates of shrinkage across the Patagonian Andes ‘increased in each time segment analyzed (1870-1986, 1986-2001, 2001-2011), with annual rates of shrinkage twice as rapid from 2001-2011 as from 1870-1986’.
"In fact, they're probably not really glaciers anymore. Their new 3D view of the massive volcano is the best in decades, and will eventually help create new topographic maps for the thousands of tourists who attempt to hike the 19,341-foot (5,895 m) mountain every year, Sirguey said.
Harris joining up with Biden may have made the Democratic ticket more attractive to younger Black Americans, who now comprise what we define as a critical set of swing voters. Recent research confirms the rapid demise of glaciers in the icefields of Patagonia, located in the high Andes atop Chile and Argentina, where glacial retreat is occurring ‘at a non-glacial pace’. Previous studies of Kilimanjaro's glaciers have relied on aerial photographs to measure the rate of the retreating ice.
See And a study done in 2015 concluded that the estimated 5,500 glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region will likely experience ‘continued and possibly accelerated mass loss from glaciers… given the projected increase in temperatures,’ according to Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the But the latest word comes from the comprehensive and authoritative 2019 report Summarizing the report, Pepe Escobar explains: ‘The path towards environmental disaster is eerily straightforward.
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In it, various local ‘experts’ are asked for their opinions on whether the glaciers are diminishing and whether, as Prof Thompson once predicted, they really will disappear altogether by 2020. You can, if you like, do as most sources suggest: nothing (or its many tokenistic equivalents). See Elsewhere in the southern hemisphere, glaciers in New Zealand, including the famous Fox, Franz Josef and Tasman glaciers, are also in retreat. Other glaciers on Kilimanjaro will survive longer, but they too will disappear between 2022 and 2033, Thompson's latest estimates suggest. "As other data from Thompson and colleagues confirms, the much larger tropical ice fields of the Andes Mountains are also shrinking, which within decades will leave tens of millions of people without drinking water.
Fagre predicts that within 30 years most if not all of the park's namesake glaciers will disappear. The artist book Kilimanjaro: The Last Glacier will endure long after climate change destroys the glaciers, and the environmental archive they record.
In 2012, the ice field split in two, revealing ancient lava that may not have seen the sun for millennia.
See In those cases where corrupt or even electorally unresponsive governments are leading the destruction of the biosphere – by supporting, sponsoring and/or engaging in environmentally destructive practices – it might be necessary to remove these governments as part of the effort. See A joint research project conducted by scientists at the Universities of Bremen and Innsbruck concluded that ‘contemporary glacier mass is in disequilibrium with the current climate, and 36 ± 8% mass loss is already committed in response to past greenhouse gas emissions. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. “My son has a disability and the authorities tried to make him a criminal.” This is because, until now, scientists had a limited understanding of what happens underwater at the point where glaciers meet the sea. See So, in a nutshell: Are you willing to fight to save the glaciers (and preserve the biosphere)?