Mount Kilimanjaro's ice caps to disappear by 2020's?

I know everyone is constantly hearing about the melting of glaciers, but I found an interesting article that predicts the melting of one African dormant volcano's ice cap within 13 years, pretty soon, huh? Scientists have recently been conducting studies atop Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, and in the process have discovered some pretty alarming statistics. 85 % of the ice present atop Kilimanjaro in 1912 has been gone since 2007. And of the ice present in 2000, 25 % of it has been absent since 2007. Every year the ice masses are receding further up the mountain top and in addition are becoming increasingly thinner. For example, Kilimanjaro's Southern Ice field was approximately 21 meters thick in 2000, but scientists have just released evidence shows that by 2007 the field had reduced 5.1 meters in thickness. This new data supports the theory that Kilimanjaro's ice is receding due to global worming, not the loss of precipitation. Luckily the people who inhabit their area surrounding Kilimanjaro do not rely on the dormant volcano's melt water to survive. However, around the world many people do depend on melt water from glaciers and this new evidence from Kilimanjaro will assist scientists in predicting how fast these other glaciers will melt and disappear.


http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49038/title/Mount_Kilimanjaro_could_soon_be_bald