Kilimanjaro regaining its snow cap

Climate boffins are nothing if not resilient in the face of contrary data. If you listen closely you can hear the goalposts moving.

Ausie Dan says, “But where are the Trolls when we need them?
This rotten snow must really hurt.”
Preparing to eat “crow” with the missing ocean heat.

Hans Meyer, German geographer and the first man to climb Kilimanjaro, noted the ice retreat in 1898. He noted that the ice limit had withdrawn by over 100m since his first ascent 8 years earlier.
http://tinyurl.com/68sbmr6

“Results suggest glaciers on Kilimanjaro are merely remnants of a past climate rather than sensitive indicators of 20th century climate change….All ice bodies on Kilimanjaro have retreated drasti-cally between 1912 –2003. Despite air temperatures always being below freezing, areal retreat of plateau glaciers is governed mostly by solar radiation induced melt on vertical walls that characterize their north and south margins [Molg et al., 2003].”
http://www.geo.umass.edu/climate/tanzania/pubs/cullen_etal_2006grl.pdf

Gore needs a primer and should stop his dis-information campaign.

Is this yet another hole in the cAGW hypothesis which will have to be re-filled with millions of dollars of grant money?
Up until now they were ignoring that it was a hole at all, and now that metaphoric water is pouring in that metaphoric hole, they will need to fill it with something, and cAGW grant money buys them the most convenient scientific conclusions to act as hole-bungs that money can buy.
:: sigh ::

John McCain said he became a believer in ‘manmade global warming’ because of Kilimanjaro losing snow. Doh!

This is a report from a tourist promotion group that cites only what a few people think they see. It does not cite any scientific studies or measurements. It may or may not be valid. Even if it is correct it is not at all clear that it is significant. Snow cover expansion where there was once solid ice may or may not be the beginning of a trend. Try to be at least a little skeptical.

Been burning wood like crazy, soaking my atmosphere around me with CO2. Still too damned cold for bats or worms. I’ll have to use artificial bait and last year’s roe if I want to try to catch a nice steelhead. And it is snowing, again, in Wallowa County right now.
Reminds me of our Easter pictures from the 50’s and very early 60’s. We stood in front of a snow bank for our Easter dress-up pictures before heading off to mass.

Because this has always been cyclical one needs only give time a chance to prove the current “trend” is just a segment of a well-established cycle. Because a trend looks like a very long cycle, and because serious long cycles predate observation requiring the use of proxies, and because proxies require interpretation, and because the interpreters have been shown to be corrupt bastids, best we just be patient.

“Climate boffins are nothing if not resilient in the face of contrary data. If you listen closely you can hear the goalposts moving.”
Moving?
That sound is the goalposts leaving the stadium and hailing a taxi!