Mt. Kilimanjaro is a bad example of a point well taken
University of Washington climate scientist Philip W. Mote, co-author with Georg Kaser of an article in the July/August issue of American Scientist magazine, said most scientists who study Kilimanjaro's glaciers have long been uneasy with the volcano's poster-child status.
Pictures of the peak, which has lost 90% of its snow and ice, were featured in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth." Greenpeace activists once held a satellite news conference on the summit during an international climate conference.
Kilimanjaro has seen its glaciers decline steadily for well over a century, Mote said, due to lack of snowfall and sublimation, the same process that causes freezer burn by sucking moisture out of leftovers.
"Kilimanjaro is a grossly overused mis-example of the effects of climate change," said Mote, who doesn’t want skeptics to use his and Kaser’s article to debunk broader climate-change trends.
He emphasized that global warming is, indeed, responsible for the melting away of nearly every other glacier around the globe. “Kilimanjaro just happens to be the worst possible case study.”















Bad science
"nearly every other glacier
Big deal. You've got a
Big deal. You've got a couple glaciers which are growing. This is actually expected given that precipitation over certain areas is increasing due to increased evaporation due to warmer temperatures. Increased precipitation means more snow in some alpine areas, meaning growing glaciers.
JEV2000, you'll have to do better than that.
"Big deal. You've got a
I agree. However, large
I agree.
However, large scale atmospheric temperature changes due to AGW are changing large scale precipitation patterns, such as the ITCZ (Intertropical Convergence Zone), SPCZ (South Pacific Convergence Zone), etc.
Also, ENSO is likely becoming more irregular. It is thought that El Ninos will become more permanent fixtures on the Equatorial Pacific which spells trouble for the Indian Subcontinent's vital monsoon season. As well, the west coast of South America will likely see more precipitation as a result of weakening trade winds and warmer, moister air flowing eastward over the Andes during strong El Ninos.
Did you just make this up?
JEV2000 said: "And gosh, retreating glaciers in Europe are exposing Neolithic sites where humans hunted, mined ore and camped. At one mine site, tools were piled up, indicating that the miners expected to return after the next spring thaw which never happened".
Did you just make this up or can you give a source and reference?
Ian Forrester
Mt Kilimanjaro
Don't forget about the "endangered" polar bears!
Yet another example of “fake but accurate”, eh?
If the Global Warming alarmists are wrong about this, then what else are they wrong about?
Oh, sorry. I keep forgetting. The science is “settled”.