{"id":575,"date":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/2002\/11\/27\/snows-of-kilimanjaro-may-melt-by-2020\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T07:33:16","slug":"snows-of-kilimanjaro-may-melt-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/snows-of-kilimanjaro-may-melt-by-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"Snows of Kilimanjaro May Melt By 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Arthur \/ Independent\/UK (via Common Dreams News<br \/>\nCenter)<\/p>\n<p>The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro, immortalized by an Ernest<br \/>\nHemingway short story, are melting so quickly they are expected to disappear<br \/>\nwithin two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that the ice fields capping<br \/>\nAfrica&#039;s highest mountain shrank by 80 per cent in the last century, from<br \/>\n4.6 square miles in 1912 to just one square mile two years ago, which has<br \/>\nbrought down the height of the mountain by several feet.<\/p>\n<p>The ice covering the 19,330ft peak &#8220;will be gone by<br \/>\nabout 2020&#8221;, said Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State<br \/>\nUniversity. The process has cut water volume in some Tanzanian rivers that<br \/>\nsupply villages and hospitals. Global warming is one reason, but scientists say<br \/>\nit alone cannot have caused such a dramatic change. The other factors behind<br \/>\nthe transformation remain a mystery.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\" class=\"siderule\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/santa_line2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"60%\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/globetrotters.co.uk\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/12\/santa_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"36\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Arthur \/ Independent\/UK (via Common Dreams News Center) The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro, immortalized by an Ernest Hemingway short story, are melting so quickly they are expected to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","css_class_manager_body_classes":"","css_class_manager_use_in_post_loop":false},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-sidebar","tag-november-2002"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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