By I was recently reading this article in Oh My News about a couple’s ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa. The whole time while reading the article I kept wondering to myself, how long before a global warming fear mongering statement is made? Sure enough global warming became a theme in the article to include even concluding the article with the global warming claim:
It all begins to make some sense now that it’s over. Kili looks down on the Olduvai Gorge, the cradle of humanity, the plain where our ancestor Homo habilis was born.
I look up and see a jet in the distance sailing across the blue sky. The world is convinced it can maintain its voracious lifestyle while at the same time reducing its so-called “carbon footprint,” but the snow beneath our feet is literally melting away.
We’ve got one foot in the cradle, the other in the grave. I don’t know exactly what the future holds, but I do know this moment is enough to sustain Yuko and I for many years to come. [Oh My News]
There is only one problem, that airplane flying across the sky has nothing to do with the snow melting beneath this couple’s feet. The snows of Kilimanjaro have been shrinking not by global warming which by the way hasn’t been happening since 1998, but because of deforestation:
Deforestation seems to be causing Mount Kilimanjaro’s shrinking glacier. Researchers think deforestation of the mountain’s foothills is the most likely culprit. Without the forests’ evapotranspiration of humidity into the air, previously moisture-laden winds blowing across those forests now blow drier. The summit, no longer replenished with water from those winds, started shrinking. Studies show the ice is evaporating through a process called sublimation. You can witness this effect at home, have you ever noticed that ice cubes left in your freezer tend to shrink with time? [Andrew Bolt]
In fact a British court has ruled that the claim in Al Gore’s movie about global warming being responsible for the shrinking of Kilimanjaro’s ice cap is one of many errors in the movie:
The nine errors alleged by the judge included:
Mr Gore’s assertion that the disappearance of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming – the court heard the scientific consensus was that it cannot be established the snow recession is mainly attributable to human-induced climate change. [BBC]
Despite the global warming fear mongering the Oh My News article does have some pretty nice pictures of the couple’s ascent up Mt. Kilimanjaro which is a mountain I have always wanted to climb and judging by these time lapse pictures there will probably still be plenty of snow on it when I do get the chance:
So who thinks the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting due to global warming? Vote below:
4:34 pm on December 16th, 2008 1
I wonder what GI Korea’s opinion of this topic would be had someone other than Al Gore (someone less Left) filmed the same slideshow on global warming? Had it been someone else, it wouldn’t have garnered as much attention from Fox News and Christo-Whackos and no one would have mentioned global warming again for so many years. I wish it had been someone else because Al Gore is a douche and I wish that he and Clinton would go away, and not be treated like trusted oracles on everything that’s none of their business.
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4:53 pm on December 16th, 2008 2
When people make statements that are based in part or even wholly or others opinions and observations what is that called? I’m sure before I would make a statement on Global Warming, I would make some of my own observations. Unfortunately, there are those who are skewed one way or the other and the comment above about the snow capped peak of Kilimanjaro is unfortunate. The point that is trying to be made is mountain top remained snow capped throughout the year even in the summer. In recent years the snow-line has gradually receded until the snow no longer capped the mountain. It’s unfortunate when someone interjects their agenda into objectivity.
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5:14 pm on December 16th, 2008 3
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5:50 pm on December 16th, 2008 4
My Korean students of all people, in a group presentation entitled “Global Warming Is Fake,” informed me about the origin of this craze, which I posted about here: The Iron Lady and Global Warming Hysteria.
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10:25 am on December 17th, 2008 5
In response to LG DACOM it doesn’t matter who the messenger is if the message is incorrect as the British court and hundreds of scientists in recent years concluded.
So much money and attention is being wasted on the global warming industry that could be much better spent dealing with real pressing environmental issues.
Dave, the snow cap has receded due to a real environmental issue, deforestation and not global warming. This is a perfect example of how the global warming industry has successfully obscured a real issue to the detriment of the environment they claim they want to protect.
Western Confucian, yes I have read about the Thatcher connection to the global warming industry and it is interesting how this all started. It has definitely taken on a life of its own now.
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7:29 pm on December 17th, 2008 6
GI Korea, the global warming “hype” is a described as a very complex issue, it is not as easy as say, calculating the mass of the universe. I do know the global warming enthusiast include in their equation deforestation, both natural and man made. In the scheme of things, it doesn’t make a dime’s bit of difference to me if the temperature of the earth were a million degrees. I don’t care. But from my own experience of 42 years I know that November and December were colder then than now and all of the people I speak with that are older than me have made the same observation. Those who don’t think there is something going on with the climo-environment tend to think the prosperity in the latter years of the Clinton administration was a result of Ragan and the state of the economy at present is a result of Clinton. On the other hand those who think the only thing causing the melting of the Kilimanjaro snow cap is man’s actions have a tendency to vote a straight democrat ticket.
– My point is this: don’t look at complex issues as if there is a simple solution
THE GLOBAL WARMING INDUSTRY INCLUDES DEFORESTATION IN THE EQUATION OF GLOBAL WARMING just your comment above tells me your not listening to what the global warming industry is saying, you only hear their obnoxious tone.
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9:13 pm on December 17th, 2008 7
Future global warming is based on computerized climate models. By plugging in today’s numbers, the future can be predicted.
The real test is to see if present conditions can be predicted by plugging in the numbers of the past.
The inconvenient truth is that they don’t.
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11:00 pm on December 17th, 2008 8
GI Korea, a Global warming denier?! I feel betrayed. Oh wait a minute, no I don’t. Global “Warming” has, and remains a bit of a fallacy.
But would GI Korea concede that there has been profound extremes in weather over recent years (maybe decade). Take for example this year’s coldest autumn in England on record Vs The hottest drought conditions in Australia at the same time.
“Is there such a thing as climate change?” – that would’ve been a better poll.
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12:57 am on December 18th, 2008 9
If global warming industry cared about deforestation why is Al Gore and the rest of the usual suspects not repeating how deforestation is effecting the snow pack on Kiliminjaro and not global warming?
Also global warming stopped 10 years ago. This is why climate change is the new buzz word for the global warming industry. You can say anything is climate change since the climate changes all the time through out history.
Chosun Bimbo is playing the typical art of Climate Change cherry picking. Two can play that game:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/cherry_picking_is_now_warming_science/
Plus you need to get your facts straight. Australia is currently swamped with cool wet weather and floods:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/a_dam_would_have_been_safer/
For those interested in the data going into those computer models read this:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6855
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1:04 am on December 18th, 2008 10
Oh by the way, I am currently holidaying in Las Vegas and it is snowing outside:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/dec/17/rain-snow-moving-las-vegas-valley/
That is the beauty of climate change, this freak snow storm here can be blamed on global warming as well.
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1:15 am on December 18th, 2008 11
I can’t speak for Al Gore but I would have to agree that it probably IS the deforestation causing Kili’s snow cap to recede. That is to say some sort of man-made intervention affecting the environment.
As for the argument that our climate changes, yes I have to admit to embracing the buzz word rather than the literal changing of climate. But as for getting one’s facts straight, 2 instances of extreme drought in Australia in the last decade:
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/media_releases/sa/010123.shtml
and
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/18/2192358.htm
and the UKs coldest winter in 2005:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article576791.ece
and then the coldest again this time last year:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/29879/New-year-big-freeze-is-coming
and as if to illustrate the very point at debate, snow in Las Vegas!? How could you not at least consider the fact that SOMETHING is up when it comes to the weather. I don’t agree with “Global Warming” per se, but I can’t disagree that the extremes in the weather experienced in the last decade have happened, and might have something to do with environmental intervention by people.
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2:11 am on December 18th, 2008 12
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10:17 pm on December 19th, 2008 13
Yes man made environmental damage is causing the snows to recede on Kili and not global warming. If the writer of the article said that instead of blaming global warming then I would have no issue with the article.
Australia has been in drought and is now coming out of it because of heavy rains it has been receiving in the last two years. Australia’s rain fall is cyclical and during the recent drought years the total rain fall was similar to other years in the past century:
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/change/rain.shtml
What is making drought years more significant for Australians’ is the fact there is more of them. Australia’s greatly increased population over the past 50 years strains their water resources on drier years because the environmentalists have been stopping the building of dams to support a higher population:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/column_join_the_dam_dots/
Colder winters in London just proves the point about the global cooling going on right now that I have already mentioned. It has even snowed in New Orleans this year.
As far as snow in Las Vegas, it is not unheard of for snow to fall in Las Vegas:
http://www.lvrj.com/news/36335684.html
3.6 inches fell in this latest storm, if you read the article you will see that 30 years ago 7.8 inches fell on the city. The snow fall record for Las Vegas is in 1949 when over 9 inches fell. Was global warming induced climate change beginning back then?
All throughout history there has been freak snow storms and years of drought. To expect the weather to remain the same is not plausible.
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8:24 am on December 20th, 2008 14
Oh, I subject I can chime in on as an actual meteorologist! Here’s the rub about “extremes” in the weather….what is your time scale? The earth has had a “climate” for millions of years. You are looking at a slice of records which amounts to far less than 1% of history at a single point on the globe. It not feasible to say the climate is changing just because it snows in the UK (an event which by the way was both expected and predicted based upon the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation….but I digress). There are a lot of things that the US (using this nation as an example) can be doing in the name of national security and controlling our own economy to convert our energy practices and usage, but the fallacy of man-made global warming and the supposed ability to prevent climate change shouldn’t be part of the arguement.
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8:49 am on December 20th, 2008 15
Harry thanks for the comment. I agree fully and that is why I have been saying before that a reduction in our oil consumption is needed for national security reasons:
http://rokdrop.com/2008/12/13/putting-ecuadors-foreign-debt-default-into-perspective/#comment-261500
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1:01 pm on December 28th, 2008 16
If not stopped, the global warming scam will enrich the scammers (Gore), increase the power of the U.N. and Marxists like Obama, and multiply poverty and servitude for the rest of us.
Believing that human activities can change the weather is like believing that the earth is the center of the universe. The earth is not the center of the universe.
The more than 650 international scientists who dissent over man-made global warming claims are more than 12 times the number of UN scientists (52) who authored the media-hyped IPCC 2007 Summary for Policymakers.
Additionally, more than 31,000 American scientists have signed onto a petition that states, “There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate…” http://www.pr-inside.com/the-petition-contains-the-signatures-of-r613239.htm
It is CRIMINAL to force us to swallow the global warming hoax, which will increase unemployment, poverty and dependence.
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