On Feb 29, 10:52 pm, "BN00Z" wrote:
25 Feb 2008

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Last week, I broke the story of a press release issued by NOAA where

One of the authors is at NOAA. Hardly an NOAA study.

they publish an opinion smashing any link between hurricanes and global
warming saying that "There is nothing in the U.S. hurricane damage
record that indicates global warming has caused a significant increase
in destruction along our coasts."

They said only that no association with economic damages was found,
NOT that GW played no role in hurricane intensity. Geez, you can't
even lie well.


Many readers may recall that Al Gore used hurricanes prominently in An
Inconvenient Truth, and mentions hurricane Katrina specifically. Gore
claims that increased hurricane activity is caused by global warming.

Last week, when the NOAA press release came out smashing any link
between hurricanes and global warming, I wrote to my local newspaper
editor, David Little, and said to him "Do you care to bet that AP and
Reuters won't run this story?" He responded: "I hope they do, it seems
newsworthy to me."

Well here is is, 4 days later, not a peep.

A Google search of news stories for "NOAA increased hurricane" (keywords
of the press release) reveals a tiny handful of stories about the press
release. Could you imagine though if the story said the reverse? What
if NOAA claimed they had established a definitive link between global
warming and hurricanes. Oh my, the humanity of it all! Gloom, doom,
death, destruction, angst, and demands for action on Kyoto. If it bleeds
it leads. Compare to all the stories still circulating about hurricane
Katrina and global warming.

Here is another story about a point from Gore's AIT hit parade; Mount
Kilimanjaro. Mr. Gore asserted that the disappearance of snow on Mount
Kilimanjaro in East Africa was expressly attributable to global warming;
"Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro." That
was in 2005 in his movie An Inconvenient Truth.

Deforestation seems to be causing Mount Kilimanjaro's shrinking glacier.
Researchers think deforestation of the mountain's foothills is the most
likely culprit. Without the forests' evapotranspiration of humidity into
the air, previously moisture-laden winds blowing across those forests
now blow drier. The summit, no longer replenished with water from those
winds, started shrinking. Studies show the ice is evaporating through a
process called sublimation. You can witness this effect at home, have
you ever noticed that ice cubes left in your freezer tend to shrink with
time?

Last year, a British Court ruled Gore's point about Kilimanjaro not to
be true.

So when a news story crossed my desk today that said: "Mount
Kilimanjaro: On Africa's roof, still crowned with snow" I had to wonder,
will we see this one covered in the main stream media? Or maybe those
beacons of truth over at Real Climate will make a note of it?

Don't hold your breath. But, at least the New York Times travel section
covered it. It seems more of a touristy thing to have snow on
Kilimanjaro than a scientific issue of truth I suppose.

UPDATE: Kate over at SDA created a collage over time showing the snow of
Mt. Kilimanjaro:

Mount Kilamanjaro - Tanzania, Africa - still snowy. Photo by Neil Modie,
January 2008
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Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"The notion of a static, unchanging climate is foreign to the history of
the earth or any other planet with a fluid envelope. The fact that the
developed world went into hysterics over changes in global mean
temperature of a few tenths of a degree will astound future
generations." Richard Lindzen, Professor of Meteorology MIT and Member
of the National Academy of Sciences