A Consensus Eroding (Part 2)

I remember sitting through the cannon of the Church of Global Warming in my Religion classes in high school, and coming across a point that I had already heard many times. They blamed Kilamanjaro’s melting Ice Cap on Global Warming. However, as I sat, looking at the pictures that they showed, I noticed something odd. At the base of the mountain, the first photo showed jungle surrounding it. Lush, tropical, wet, Jungle. Then, when they showed the second, more recent image, much of that Jungle had disappeared, replaced with stumps, buildings, and savannah. I though o myself, hmmm, that is odd, could it be that the dryer air is sapping the Ice?

When they showed the melting Ice, I realized that not only was it possible, but it was likely. When glaciers melt, they get smaller in all directions. However, the Ice images show tall pillars of Ice left behind in the center of the glaciers. The problem with this being that the height shrinks along with the circumference when Ice melts due to temperature. However, when the decrease is caused by dry air, it takes from the sides before it takes from the top, and that is what the images show you.

Recently, Climatologist John Daly was quoted as saying,

“The only problem with that knee-jerk explanation is that there has been no measurable atmospheric warming in the region of Kilimanjaro. Satellites have been measuring temperature since 1979 in the free troposphere between 1,000 and 8,000 meters altitude, and they show no tropospheric warming in that area. None.”

In fact, Betsy Martin of the journal Nature, was quoted as saying that

“Without the forests’ humidity,” Mason reports, “previously moisture-laden winds blew dry. No longer replenished with water, the ice is evaporating in the strong equatorial sunshine.”

Extrapolating on that, John Daly was quoted as saying

“Kilimanjaro is above most of the weather and is thus exposed to the equatorial sun, a sun that has been hotter during the twentieth century than at any time since the medieval period. That would be a sufficient explanation in itself for the depletion of the ice cap.”

So, that is one more blow to the “Concensus” of Global Warming. More to come tomorrow.

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