Cheat-Seeking Missles

Thursday, May 12, 2005

All You Need To Know About Ice

More specifically, melting ice. Even more specifically, melting ice and global warming grandstanding. Stuff like this:

For example, a favorite melting glacier of the global warming activists sits atop Mt. Kilimanjaro in northern Tanzania, near the equator. Satellites have been measuring temperatures near its summit for more than 25 years, finding no warming at all, yet the global warmers trot out Kilimanjaro as a poster child for their cause.

A scientific study published in Nature in November 2003 explained that deforestation of the mountain slopes -- not warming temperatures -- explains the melting. But the scaremongers don't particularly care why Kilimanjaro is melting, only that it is. Any other facts get in the way of their lobbying and fund-raising efforts.

From the bottom of the earth to the top of Kilimanjaro, the UN and its allies in the environmental movement are misrepresenting ice to grub for money and push the monumentally flawed and useless Kyoto treaty. Read more details at The Chicago Sun Times.

h/t Greenie Watch