re: #20 really grumpy big dog johnson

{{{ I am so sick of the global warming crap! }}}

When’s the last time Kilimanjaro was without ice? It is, after all, located pretty close to the equator, and I hear it’s pretty warm down below…

They seem unsure:

There was no presence of the bubbles in the deeper layers of the cores, Dr. Thompson said.

If his dating of the ice core layers is accurate, surface melting like that seen in recent years has not occurred over the last 11,700 years.

But Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the Institute for Geography of the University of Innsbruck in Austria, said that the ice measured was only a few hundred years old and that it had come and gone over centuries.

One scientist thinks the ice is almost 12,000 years old, the other thinks the ice is only a few hundred years old.