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2020: Kiss the snows of Kilimanjaro goodbye

Michael Kanellos reports on a discussion on global warming a the U.S.
Written by Dan Farber, Inactive
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Michael Kanellos reports on a discussion on global warming a the U.S.-China Symposium on Climate Change taking place at University of California, Berkeley, this week. Not good news. According to John Harte, professor of energy and resources at Berkeley, a 3 to 5 degree increase in average global temperature, could raise sea levels a half meter, leading  to disappearing island nations and disastrous problems for Hong Kong...for starters. No more snow on Mt. Kilimanjaro by 2020, he predicted, and say goodbye to polar bears...
 
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