Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro

Associated Press ^ | November 2, 2009

[presidio9]

The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak

[sourcery]

The debate actually is over…and the idea that human emissions of carbon dioxide will cause any significant degree of global warming has been categorically refuted and falsified. The empirically-measured change in the amount of energy radiating away from the Earth as a function of changes in sea surface temperature totally falsifies the IPCC climate models--and more importantly, completely falsifies the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis—total, categorical falsification, not simply invalidation of the alleged "proof" based on computer climate models:

• On the determination of climate feedbacks from ERBE data (peer-reviewed scientific paper);
• RESPONSE TO US SECRETARY OF ENERGY ON CLIMATE STATEMENT (explanation for non-scientists)
• Basic Greenhouse Equations "Totally Wrong"
• IPCC'S FATAL ERRORS
• Climate Change: Statement of Dr. William Happer before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
• The Skeptics Handbook

[hinckley buzzard]

This is pure hokum. Kilimanjaro is a rather unexceptional mountain and the advance of forest clearing and agriculture up its slopes has changed the local climate dramatically, curtailing rainfall on the higher slopes. The proposition that this has something to do with "global warming" has been seriously discredited for some years now.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Is that how that frozen leopard got halfway up the northern slope?......

[4Speed]

And in a related story, the Glaciers that historically covered the Great Lakes of Northern USA have melted, and have not so recently completely dissappeared ! !
However, the Great lakes have been known to still freeze during the North American Winter, and are expected to again Freeze this year.....That would be 2010-11, in the Al Gorian period of excessive Hot Air Bloviation period.

[w1andsodidwe]

The glaciers that deposited many large rocks in Northern Iowa just can't be found anyplace any more. Nobody seems to be worrying about it.

I did visit Alaska in September and can report that I saw many glaciers. The one a sea level just outside of Juneau is reported to be declining, but didn't hear that about any of the others.

[Sloth]

Snow cap disappearing from Mount Kilimanjaro

Oh noes! Then those poor polar bears will have nowhere to hide from the gorillas!

[Lady Jag]

OMG!   The ice in my drink melted!!!

[presidio9]

Kilimanjaro is a volcano. That might have something to do with it...

You can't underestimate the importance of actually reading the article. The scientists actually say one possibility is that it's just snowing less up there right now. Then they reject that hypothesis. Presumably because it does nothing to enhance global warming theory. Meanwhile, there are entire regions of Africa that supported millions of people for tens of thousands of years facing starvation because of decades long droughts.

[Red_Devil 232]

But you see the alarmists don't care about history or facts.

All they care about is convencing enough airheads that what thay say is true.

[sourcery]

The Kilimanjaro story is is eblatantly dishonest

[cranked]

For decades, they—the experts—have been proclaiming that Mt. Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano. Imagine the ruckus in that ‘expert’ community when its found that Mt. Kilimanjaro is beginning the cycle of becoming active. lulz!

At any rate, the libtard wacko global warming/climate change alarmist love to use Mt. Kilimanjaro as an example of proof....how quaint that it is once again being brought up.

[muleskinner]

ALL - see post 13.

Deforestation by local villagers = dryer air around the mountain = less percipitation on the mountain = less snow.

[MotorCityBuck]

From the Encyclopedia Dramatica: OH NOES!!

[nkycincinnatikid]

Kaiser Wilhelm put that ice up there as a prank when he gave it to Queen Victoria for her birthday.
She said “We are not amused by that little willie”

[rodguy911]

It's that African snow cone thief again,he and algorrrr are stealing the snow.

[mountainlion]

FLASH~!
Some of the missing snow has been found in my yard.

[Cheetahcat]

Yes but ice is growing in other parts of the world.

[fanfan]

Antarctica is the only continent not owned by any country.

So, buy it, and keep your drink there.

[VeniVidiVici]

Damn. First the Sahara loses all its water now Killamanjaro loses its snow.

Some things never change.

[Cicero]

Railla Odinga’s fault.