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Snow Will Soon Disappear From Mount Kilimanjaro


Environment  (tags: environment, climate-change, snow, mountains, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 18 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Despite the fact that Mount Kilimanjaro is located in one of the world's warmer climates, like any other mountain with such high altitude, it has snowy peaks and glaciers that add interest to climbers, (although it doesn't do much for the wildlife on
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Gorilly Girl (371)
Friday November 6, 2009, 7:34 am
Of course it will us warmers all know that...LOL

Big Gorilly Hugs
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (250)
Friday November 6, 2009, 9:40 am
Thannxxx.. this is tuly sad that the cake is looooooosing its icing... what will the mountain be without its tablecloth.. not the same..
 

Judy Cross (80)
Friday November 6, 2009, 10:06 am
The mythology about Mt. Kili is like a zombie. It doesn't matter how many times it is shot down, it rises up again.


Satellites and weather balloons show no warming in mid to high levels in the tropics. Only in the tinkertoy climate models does that happen but to alarmists that is reality. See John Christy plot of tropical temperatures in mid to high atmosphere from satellite below and enlarged here.).
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Tropics_Christy.jpg
"Changes in cloudiness and snowfall may also be involved, though they appear less important, according to the study. (Once again wrong. Thompson sees what he wants to see in the data. But temperatures below and enlarged here have declined at Kilimanjaro not risen
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/KILITEMPS.jpg

and precipitation below and enlarged here has declined due to deforestation and Atlantic Multidecadal changes. Also dust from drier ground is said to be darkening the ice and enhancing the melt.)
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/KILIPREC.jpg

Even if warming was a factor...we didn't do it.
 

Michael P. (19)
Friday November 6, 2009, 8:13 pm
LOL!!! Judy, that last line brings to mind the old joke about the little boy next to the broken cookie jar saying 'I didn't do it!'
 
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