Al Gore Is Wrong Again!
Posted: Thursday, December 03, 2009
by Richard Vail
Chisel & Plane
In the Netherlands today newspapers and websites are reporting the findings of Professor Jaap Sinninghe Damste - a leading molecular paleontologist at Utrecht University and winner of the prestigious Spinoza Prize - and his findings on the recently disappeared icecap of Mount Kilimanjaro, the iconic African mountain that has been adopted as the most popular symbol of "anthropogenic global warming" (AGW). Professor Sinninghe Damste's research, was released and extensively discussed on the website of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (DOSR) - an official organization of the Dutch government- "shows that the icecap of Kilimanjaro was not the result of cold air but of large amounts of precipitation which fell at the beginning of the Holocene period, about 11,000 years ago."
The melting and freezing of moisture on top of Kilimanjaro appears to be part of "a natural process of dry and wet periods." The present melting is not the result of "environmental damage caused by man."The Dutch professor studied a number of different markers including a biomolecular markers in the sediment found at Lake Challa, at the foot of the mountain. He and his team reconstructed the variations as well as the intensity of rain fall in that portion of Africa over a 25,000 year period. They concluded that a cycle with a period of roughly 11,500 years of wet and dry periods occured in central east Africa. In the last dry period which occurred approximately 12,800 and 11,500 years ago the mountain peak did not have and ice cap. Sometime during the end of that dry period a serious change in the climate took place as a result in solar radiation. The resulting increased rainfall made the formation of the famous ice cap possible. The start of a new dry period resulted in the disappearance of the ice cap recently. ."
DOSR calls Al Gore's "iconic use of the melting cap of Kilimanjaro 'unfortunate' - since it now seems to be mainly the result of 'natural climate variations.'" The magazine Nature published the English version of the highly technical article by Professor Sinninghe Damste's research team.
On a lighter note, the website of Elsevier magazine, the Netherlands' most popular political weekly, used the headline: " Dutchman discredits Al Gore's climate evidence" DOH!
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So, Al is wrong again...imagine that!
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Global warming theorists have brought science into disrepute. We need to speak up against the tyranny of "climate change". Good article.Thanks for coming by, I appreciate the support.
Very good and timely - still talked with a neighbor today who hadn't heard about the hoax being proven a hoax by someone other than Rush....MarijoThat's because the Legacy Media (aka MSM) won't report on it...but it's burning up the net...all over da place. Just tell 'em to type in "climategate" in their search browser
Reader's Club and just as good second time around!Thanks twice then!
Great article Richard. I imagine Mr. Gore's main driving force would be the amount of money that can be made through fear.I you understand that he owns, outright, the 3rd largest "carbon trading" company, world-wide, and stands to make literally billions and billionsof dollars as a result of the draconian measures that will be put in place if we actually emplement the Copenhagen treaty that is being presented this week, it sorta falls into place...Thanks for coming by and commenting.
Hi Richard, I'm glad to have you on my side in this cotton picking farce. If you look back in my articles listing, you'll find that I've tried to get across to the "Chicken Little" bunch that this entire crusade has been a plot to (1) make scads of money off the taxpayers, (2) start a world governance by signing on to a U.N. bill to be able to collect a tax from all of us. Thanks for a well written article.I have another article on this vein posted here and a lengthier one on my blog...hit the link in my bio above to head there. I agree, this isn't about "saving the planet" but is a naked attempt to seize control of the global economy...it's "sharing the weath" on a global scale...
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