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Tropical glaciers shrinking

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Darkmind

posted on May, 17 2006 @ 04:09 AM
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According to this story the Mountains of the Moon snowfields are to go within the next 20 years. Depressing.
news.bbc.co.uk...



Nygdan

posted on May, 17 2006 @ 08:43 AM
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from the article

2nd Century AD Greek geographer Ptolemy, who wrote of snow-capped equatorial peaks that fed the Nile: "The Mountains of the Moon whose snows feed the lakes, sources of the Nile".



IOW, they've been melting since 200 AD.



 
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