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Home / December 5th, 2009; Vol.176 #12 / Mount Kilimanjaro could soon be bald / File
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Glaciers and other permanent ice masses atop Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro are shrinking fast and may be gone by 2022, a new research study suggests. Credit: Thompson et al./PNAS 2009


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  • The photo at the top of the page sure looks like someone photoshopped part of a photo of part of a glacial front after it calved an iceberg and put it on a scene of springtime nearly melted snowfield. With the high cirrus there should be shadows. With gravity, wind, and snow melt I don't think the ice could still be standing.

    I bet nothing in that photo is from Kilimanjaro.

    "Credit: Thompson et al./PNAS 2009"

    I don't have time to investigate further this morning.
    Ric Werme Ric Werme
    Nov. 3, 2009 at 8:41am
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