Glacier Loss Seen as Clear Sign of Human Role in Global Warming
The vanishing of the seemingly perpetual snows of
Kilimanjaro that inspired Ernest Hemingway,
echoed by similar trends on ice-capped peaks from
Peru to Tibet, is one of the clearest signs that a
global warming trend in the last 50 years may have
exceeded typical climate shifts and is at least partly
caused by gases released by human activities, a
variety of scientists say.
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