Glaciers in Africa Expected to Disappear

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Mountain glaciers in equatorial Africa are on their way to disappearing within two decades, a team of British researchers reports.

Located in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the glaciers will be gone within 20 years if current warming continues, the researchers report in this week's online edition of Geophysical Research Letters.

The researchers blamed an increase in air temperatures in recent decades for contributing to the decline of the ice fields.

"Recession of these tropical glaciers sends an unambiguous message of a changing climate in this region of the tropics," said lead researcher Richard Taylor of the University College of London, Department of Geography.

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[maxsolomon]

1. as long as we have OUR glaciers Global Heating does not exist

:sarcasm:

they're melting in Washington State, too. and fast. but they're unlikely to disappear anytime soon.