Irish Examiner view: Predicted fate of major glaciers sets yet another grim milestone

Just as extraordinary weather events become the norm here in Ireland, we learn that Kilimanjaro's glacier is set to disappear

It is predicted that landmark glaciers around the globe, including the one on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, will disappear by 2050 due to climate change. File picture: Lonnie Thompson/Ohio State University/PA

Another grim milestone was announced this week with the news that major glaciers — including those on Mount Kilimanjaro, and in Yosemite in the US — are to disappear by 2050 due to our climate’s catastrophic collapse.  

The announcement had such a ring of familiarity that one is left wondering what, if anything, would have the power to shock the world into action.