Is that it is not and has never been human caused on a global scale. The loss of the Snows of Kilimanjaro are a direct result of rampant deforestation of its slopes. Global warming? No. The tragedy is that there has been a lot more damage done to Nations and the people in them by human meddling than by any normal random climate change. Take for example, the African nation of Malawi -- from E. Calvin Beisner writing at WUWT:
Is Fighting Global Warming the Solution to Water Shortages in Malawi (or Elsewhere)?
In late May two evangelical environmentalists, recently returned from visiting Malawi, published articles in which they said poor Malawians are suffering from reduced rainfall caused by manmade global warming.
Jonathan Merritt wrote for Religion News Service, ""In America, climate change is a matter of debate, but in places like Malawi, it's a matter of life and death." Judd Birdsall wrote for Huffington Post, "In Fombe village, Malawi, climate change is not a matter of political or scientific debate. It's a matter of survival."
The implication was clear: To help the poor in Malawi (and other developing nations), we must fight global warming.
If either author had dug deeper, he might have concluded differently.
Although the controversial Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) project reports about 0.6C of warming for Malawi from about 1970 to about 2010, the data are highly suspect, coming from fewer than 10 monitoring stations in a country that stretches nearly 600 miles from north to south, averages about 75 miles wide, and is slightly larger in area than the State of Ohio. Granted the widespread deviance of temperature monitoring stations even in the U.S. from standards set to ensure accuracy, and the likelihood that "urban heat island" effect (which occurs even in small villages) accounts for about half of apparent global and regional warming in recent decades, it's likely that BEST's data for Malawi considerably exaggerate any warming there.
What follows is an examination of the differences of what Merritt and Birdsall "observed" and what the actual numbers are. There is no drought -- it is increased agriculture and mismanagement of irrigation causing the water shortage. There is no appreciable warming. Malawi's problem is mis-management and bureaucratic incompetence. Too many chefs in the stew. Reader D.W. posts the following comment:
Another post that supports what I have always argued i.e. the real catastrophes of AGW have and will come, not from anything that climate has or is likely to produce, but from the greatly damaging, ineffectual, futile, and ultimately insane 'solutions' that have been enacted already and are demanded for the future. 'Solutions' to the 'problem' of CO2 which it is increasingly evident is not one now nor likely to be much of one in the future. Indeed, if I was forced to make a guess, I would lean toward the suggestion that, when at some distant future point this matter is finally resolved scientifically, CO2 will be, like most of those things that have been ballyhooed as 'bad' for us, ultimately found to be a net benefit.
In the mean time, even if all anti-carbon activity were to cease immediately, we would still be stuck with decades of work to unwind the waste, misery and death created by what has already been done in the name of carbon demonization.
The other comments are worth reading too -- people on this blog understand that the real situation is completely unrelated to the official situation. Politics and corruption trumps reality. Or as reader D.Y. commented:
Marxists have been working very diligently in Africa to insure that no nation becomes economically stable. Malawi with a strong economy, is the last thing they want.
So true -- if your neighboring Nation has a strong and vibrant economy and you are living in a mud hut, you might start asking some inconvenient questions of your "leaders".
