Posted on 06/12/2007 9:57:12 PM PDT by TBP
The shrinking snowcap atop Mount Kilimanjaro has become an icon of global warming.
Pictures of the African peak, which has lost 90 percent of its ice cover, were featured in Al Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." Greenpeace activists once held a satellite news conference on the summit to sway participants in an international climate conference.
But most scientists who study Kilimanjaro's glaciers have long been uneasy with the volcano's poster-child status.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Looks like he'll have to buy more indulgences -- er, carbon offsets. From himself.
Jim Rob's in Exxon's pocket--who knew?!
What a wad-tard this guy is.
“He was the first to point out the disconnect between global-warming rhetoric and scientific data from Kilimanjaro. His 2004 findings became fodder for conservative Web sites and global-warming skeptics — many funded by the oil and coal industries — who argued that all reports about melting glaciers are suspect.”
I contributed to this website, I am a global-warming skeptic, I have never been funded by the oil and gas industries.
I was referring to Gore.
Sorry I wasn’t clearer, my fault.
Is that so? Funny, that's not what the rangers in Yosemite told me when I was there last summer. They told me that half a million years ago, there was a glacier a mile thick that carved out the valley, and it all melted before the first Indian ever built a campfire on North American soil. Maybe the rangers are getting paid by Exxon.
-ccm
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