Figure based on Rutgers University Global Snow Lab
• Snow cover in southern China increased 2.3% annually during 1951-1997.
Source: Dahe et al. (2006)
“…as Dr. [Lonnie] Thompson’s thermometer [analysis of the ratio of oxygen-16
Source: Idso et al. (2003)
Kilimanjaro: a victim of global warming?
• AIT “blames” CO2-induced warming for the disappearing Snows of Kilimanjaro (pp. 4243).
to oxygen-18 in ice cores] shows, the vaunted Medieval Warm Period
[MWP]...was tiny compared to the enormous increase in temperatures of the
last half-century” (AIT, p. 64)
• “Rather than changes in 20th century climate being responsible for their demise, glaciers on Kilimanjaro appear to be remnants of a past climate that was once able to sustain them.”
What An Inconvenient Truth (AIT)
