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28-02-2008, 12:03 PM
Kilimanjaro Defies Profit of Doom
February 28, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/kilimanjaro_defies_profit_of_doom/
Neil Modie rushed to climb Kilimanjaro before global warming burned away
the snows, just like Al Gore predicted:
I had wanted to climb to the roof of Africa before climate change erased
its ice fields and the romance of its iconic "Snows of Kilimanjaro"
image. But as we trudged across the 12,000-foot Shira plateau on Day 2
of our weeklong climb and gazed at the whiteness of the vast, humpbacked
summit, I thought maybe I needn't have worried.
An up-and-down-and-up traverse of the south face of Kibo, the tallest of
the mountain's three volcanic peaks, showed us a panorama of the summit
ice cap and fractured tentacles of glacial ice that dangled down gullies
dividing the vertical rock faces. And four days later, when we reached
19,340-foot Uhuru, the highest point on Kibo, we beheld snow and ice
fields so enormous as to resemble the Arctic.
It looked nothing like the photographs of Kibo nearly denuded of ice and
snow in the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Nor did it seem
to jibe with the film's narrative: "Within the decade, there will be no
more snows of Kilimanjaro."
Within a decade? Just eight years to go, then.
Still, Modie figures he just got lucky, and has a scientist and a porter
to say so.
But Small Dead Animals shows the mountain's non-disappeared snow over
time:
And as Anthony Watt points out, Gore was also wrong about the cause of
any Kilimanjaro melt:
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?
Last year, a British Court ruled Gore's point about Kilimanjaro not to
be true.
Yet Gore's film is still shown to students as if it were gospel.
--
Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
February 28, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/kilimanjaro_defies_profit_of_doom/
Neil Modie rushed to climb Kilimanjaro before global warming burned away
the snows, just like Al Gore predicted:
I had wanted to climb to the roof of Africa before climate change erased
its ice fields and the romance of its iconic "Snows of Kilimanjaro"
image. But as we trudged across the 12,000-foot Shira plateau on Day 2
of our weeklong climb and gazed at the whiteness of the vast, humpbacked
summit, I thought maybe I needn't have worried.
An up-and-down-and-up traverse of the south face of Kibo, the tallest of
the mountain's three volcanic peaks, showed us a panorama of the summit
ice cap and fractured tentacles of glacial ice that dangled down gullies
dividing the vertical rock faces. And four days later, when we reached
19,340-foot Uhuru, the highest point on Kibo, we beheld snow and ice
fields so enormous as to resemble the Arctic.
It looked nothing like the photographs of Kibo nearly denuded of ice and
snow in the Al Gore documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Nor did it seem
to jibe with the film's narrative: "Within the decade, there will be no
more snows of Kilimanjaro."
Within a decade? Just eight years to go, then.
Still, Modie figures he just got lucky, and has a scientist and a porter
to say so.
But Small Dead Animals shows the mountain's non-disappeared snow over
time:
And as Anthony Watt points out, Gore was also wrong about the cause of
any Kilimanjaro melt:
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?
Last year, a British Court ruled Gore's point about Kilimanjaro not to
be true.
Yet Gore's film is still shown to students as if it were gospel.
--
Regards
Bonzo
". researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years."
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175