Glaciers disappearing from Kilimanjaro

[MClarkson]

Why do these articles always call Kilimanjaro's glaciers "world renowned"? They are small, slow moving, and dirty from lack of precip. Many(most?) other famous mountain ranges have glaciers that are much larger, get far more precip, and are steeper and faster moving, therefore containing all manners of awesome gaping crevasses.


Because Hemingway wrote a book that mentions them? Or because these glaciers are so small that they are close to dissipation, better fitting the agendas of many of these writers?

 

[Joshua Nall]

I also rode to work today on a unicorn.

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/1016476466000205357mdBkSoxGDM

Believe me this link is relevant--it's all about what constitutes evidence.

Well I'll be! I didn't know unicorns were real! I'm just an Arkansas hillbilly, don't travel much... I hunt a lot, but I've never seen one around here. Where can I find those? I'd sure shoot one if I seen it... can you eat those???

There are shirts with Obama riding a unicorn. I see paintings of Obama naked riding unicorns.... I can't tell if it is Obama supporters or Obama critics promoting that stuff. Beck on Fox, interviewing Jonah Goldberg, where Goldberg says,

" And let me be clear: I don't think this debunks the whole idea of global warming (talking about climategate). But what it does debunk is that there are these pure, gifted, wonderful scientists, riding around on unicorns just trying to stay the divine truth, you know?"

So I guess saying "scientist, riding around on unicorns" would be implying they poses almost magical abilities and have totally moral objectives. I'm assuming the "Obama on a unicorn" shirts and paintings are a joke then? Just a country boy here... first time I have been confronted with the idea of unicorns, riding unicorns, and the like.

 

[Joshua Nall]

Here's an interesting Kilimanjaro article I ran across while researching what unicorns had to do with global warming. Oh by the way... my conclusion: They fart methane just like cows.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dutch-gore-wrong-on-snows-of-kilimanjaro/

... which includes a link to a "highly technical" article published in the journal Nature. It is technical I suppose, but very short:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/abs/nature08520.html

Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damste — a leading molecular paleontologist at Utrecht University, has found that Kilimanjaro's ice cap is formed during periods of greater precipitation and that the disappearance of the ice cap now occuring is due to a recent period of lower precipitation. He has concluded that Kilimanjaro has been ice free in the past following a previous dry period and may be ice free again in the future, due to intirely natural causes.

I'm no molecular scientist, but seems to be just as science based as other studies. He has supposedly studied 25,000 years worth of sediment layers at the base of the mountain to identify periods of greater precipitation. I reckon these periods of greater precipatation could be due to climate change (ha)...

Regarding the use of word "expert" in my previous posts. When I think "expert" I think of the guy... or gal... with the know-it-all attitude...ask them a probing question and they come back with, "what... you dare to question ME?"

I love science... LOVE it. Scientist welcome questions, look at ALL the data, welcome every plausable explanation. Scientist admit when they don't know something, when they are wrong, and when they don't know enough to say for sure. Science of late has suffered damage because of the "experts".

 

[Damon Poole]

Tell it like it is!

Tell it like it is Joshua! Tell it like it is!

Here's an interesting Kilimanjaro article I ran across while researching what unicorns had to do with global warming. Oh by the way... my conclusion: They fart methane just like cows.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/dutch-gore-wrong-on-snows-of-kilimanjaro/

... which includes a link to a "highly technical" article published in the journal Nature. It is technical I suppose, but very short:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7273/abs/nature08520.html

Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damste — a leading molecular paleontologist at Utrecht University, has found that Kilimanjaro's ice cap is formed during periods of greater precipitation and that the disappearance of the ice cap now occuring is due to a recent period of lower precipitation. He has concluded that Kilimanjaro has been ice free in the past following a previous dry period and may be ice free again in the future, due to intirely natural causes.

I'm no molecular scientist, but seems to be just as science based as other studies. He has supposedly studied 25,000 years worth of sediment layers at the base of the mountain to identify periods of greater precipitation. I reckon these periods of greater precipatation could be due to climate change (ha)...

Regarding the use of word "expert" in my previous posts. When I think "expert" I think of the guy... or gal... with the know-it-all attitude...ask them a probing question and they come back with, "what... you dare to question ME?"

I love science... LOVE it. Scientist welcome questions, look at ALL the data, welcome every plausable explanation. Scientist admit when they don't know something, when they are wrong, and when they don't know enough to say for sure. Science of late has suffered damage because of the "experts".