The discussions scientists go through leading up to a published paper are lengthy and carry brevity, but, until the published paper is complete and accepted for a professional journal the data is considered unfinished and unprepared.
What the real crime is regarding the 'hacking' into a scientific university site is; why aren't the hackers being prosecuted ?
The 'Rush to Judgement' by those that would like to revitalize the opposition to the scientific LAWS that are the basis of Human Induced Global Warming that has lead to Climate Change, is expected, isn't it?
I mean for real.
I want the hackers prosecuted. The proper way to any question regarding fraud is to seek a court to ask for wiretaps and surveillance. Hacking into a University website is a crime. Just that simple and the hackers are NOT heroes.
Sorry.
The Barnett and Lewis book noted at the title to this entry, is a $212.00 book in case anyone wants to purchase it to try to tell scientists how to handle outliers in their statistics. No time to waste, you know?
The mountain peak noted above, in case no one recognizes it is Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro is a CLASSIC example as to why there are such widespread results in measuring icefields and snowfields in the world.
Glaciers such as those found on Kilimanjaro have eroded quickly due to the loss of the forest that once surrounded the mountain peak. The 'source' of water vapor that provided snows to the glaciers for RECHARGE vanished with the exploitive foresting of the mountain. As a result the glaciers disappeared and it is one of the most rapidly degrading glaciers on the planet for that reason alone.
Areas such as the Southern Sierras in the USA 'seem' to have consistent snow fall, but, those snowfields are snows and not glaciers, and they are supported by consistent water vapor sources. That does not mean they will never be effected by Climate Change. As the Earth continues to erode its GLACIER fields, the 'heat distribution' around the planet will eventually find a home in the Southern Sierras in the USA and those snows will abate.
Every ice field on the planet has suffered damage and degradation due to Human Induced Global Warming. It is known, the mass balance of these glaciers state an alarming reality to the Greenhouse Gas escalations over the past century. The reason there needs to be a comprehensive Climate Change plan that will occur in Copenhagen next month is to attempt to stop the impending tipping points of Climate Change.
There has never been 8 billion people on Earth before. Eight billion people of which a growing majority is practicing a 'consumerism' economy that increases Greenhouse Gases through tailpipe emissions, the burning of fossil fuels for energy, while the forests are hacked down for some 'idea' of providing wood for products and land for agriculture.
There is one definitive 'enemy' in all this, it is the exploitation of the carrying capacity of Earth without its forests and icefields to 'temper' the burgeoning hostility of what once was a reasonably 'climate friendly' planet.
The hackers need to be prosecuted and the scientific community needs to feel safe. But, above all the global scientific community needs to be validated by their governments rather than being treated as outliers themselves. They have dedicated their lives to providing insight to the governments they live under and are loyal to and it is time to move on their findings and protect further generations from a very real 'Sixth Extinction.'
WASHINGTON — The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway — is rapidly melting, researchers report.
Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007.
If current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said.
The Kilimanjaro glaciers are both shrinking, as the ice at their edges melts, and thinning, the researchers found.
Similar changes are being reported at Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa and at glaciers in South America and the Himalayas.
"The fact that so many glaciers throughout the tropics and subtropics are showing similar responses suggests an underlying common cause," Thompson said in a statement. "The increase of Earth's near surface temperatures, coupled with even greater increases in the mid- to upper-tropical troposphere, as documented in recent decades, would at least partially explain" the observations.
Changes in cloudiness and snowfall may also be involved, though they appear less important, according to the study.
On Kilimanjaro, the researchers said, the northern ice field thinned by 6.2 feet (1.9 meters) and the southern ice field by 16.7 feet (5.1 meters) between 2000 and 2007.
Researchers compared the current area covered by the glaciers with maps of the glaciers based on photographs taken in 1912 and 1953 and satellite images from 1976 and 1989.
The research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
