Mt. Kilimanjaro is a bad example of a point well taken

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University of Washington climate scientist Philip W. Mote, co-author with Georg Kaser of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine, said most scientists who study Kilimanjaro’s glaciers have long been uneasy with the volcano’s poster-childย status.

Pictures of the peak, which has lost 90% of its snow and ice, were featured in Al Gore’s โ€œAn Inconvenient Truth.โ€ Greenpeace activists once held a satellite news conference on the summit during an international climateย conference.

Kilimanjaro has seen its glaciers decline steadily for well over a century, Mote said, due to lack of snowfall and sublimation, the same process that causes freezer burn by sucking moisture out ofย leftovers.

โ€œKilimanjaro is a grossly overused mis-example of the effects of climate change,โ€ said Mote, who doesnโ€™t want skeptics to use his and Kaserโ€™s article to debunk broader climate-changeย trends.

He emphasized that global warming is, indeed, responsible for the melting away of nearly every other glacier around the globe. โ€œKilimanjaro just happens to be the worst possible caseย study.โ€

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