Green Environmentalism turned Yellow Journalism..........
I'd read in another story linked here in Freep about how almost all the scientists claiming there is global warming are not climatologists per se, but instead scientists who study the impact of climate changes on the forests or deserts or whatever "ecosystem" is their specialty.
True or false? If true, that is devastating enough to shut up even the most virulent strain of Greeny...
It doesn't have to be actually the truth in the scientific sense...
Ronald Bailey :
I have long been a critic of former Vice-President Al Gore, but as a recent convert to the view that humanity is contributing significantly to the current increase in average global temperatures,
I am a recent convert as well, however I don't believe in the doom and gloom that most GW proponents give. The exaggerating they do, does little for their cause anymore. It just turns of the skeptics even more.
No they won't. If they are the predators they are all cracked up to be, they'll migrate to solid ground, adapt and start eating the next furry little critter they come across. Of course, with the polar region getting warmer, there will be more furry little critters on the menu.
Thanks - well worth the long read.
Just shut up and tell yourself over and over, "There's a universal scientific consensus, there's a universal scientific consensus..."
/Al Gore mode
If this articles theory is correct, and that "deforestation" is causing Kilamanjaro to not be able to accumulate increases in snow, then the hypothesis is that Kilamanjaro is melting not because of global warming, but rather instead from deforestation.
Can we then assume that deforestation all of the world, when the effects are combined, reduces moisture carried in the air, and therefore causes ice caps to seem like they are melting only because the air isn't carrying enough moisture to replenish snow supplies.
THERFORE. There is no global warming. Instead, it is "global drying".