The vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:13 am
Some more troubling evidence of global warming:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world ... ss&emc=rss
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world ... ss&emc=rss
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FortMental wrote:whatever happened to the idea of painting the summit white (like Monty Python did when they tried painting that beach-sand white for that scene with the giant penguin and the long green tentacles)....anybody remember that?......hello? anyone?
FortMental wrote:whatever happened to the idea of painting the summit white (like Monty Python did when they tried painting that beach-sand white for that scene with the giant penguin and the long green tentacles)....anybody remember that?......hello? anyone?
outofstep80 wrote:Haven't you all heard? Less and Less Americans believe in Global Warming these days. Stop trying to use "evidence" to support your theories.
MoapaPk wrote:Folks: Read the article a bit more carefully; especially read the cited article in American Scientist, which is much more thorough. Recorded/ extrapolated temperatures at the Kibo ice cap have varied little over the years, but there has been a dearth of new snow to replace that which mainly fell between 10000 and 2000 BC, when we had forests and lakes in the Sahara.
outofstep80 wrote:I actually am a global warming believer. I think both sides have there extremes though. It is definitely a complex system that we are trying to analyze and it is difficult to know the extent of the damage we have caused, but to think that everything we do has no impact is more than a little...(fill in the blank)