text: Scientists: Snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro to melt in twenty years
  
  November 3, 2009 
  
  Scientists at the Ohio University predicted that the ice sheets of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain peak, will melt in the next twenty years due to global warming. 
  The ice that was present in 1912 gradually decreased by 85% by 2000, and by 2007 another 26% of the amount in 2000. This was the first time that the volume of the ice in Kilimanjaro was measured. The tests were conducted by Lonnie Thompson, a professor at Ohio University. 
  "The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause," Thompson said.
tokens: Scientists : Snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro to melt in twenty years November 3 , 2009 Scientists at the Ohio University predicted that the ice sheets of Mount Kilimanjaro , Africa 's tallest mountain peak , will melt in the next twenty years due to global warming . The ice that was present in 1912 gradually decreased by 85 % by 2000 , and by 2007 another 26 % of the amount in 2000 . This was the first time that the volume of the ice in Kilimanjaro was measured . The tests were conducted by Lonnie Thompson , a professor at Ohio University . " The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause , " Thompson said .
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