However, Antarctic ice is currently increasing. 
When you combine the two charts into a global sea ice chart, you can see sea ice has been very stable for the last 150 years. 
Posted on 12/12/2009 2:34:32 PM PST by Askwhy5times
No. We came out of a 'little ice age' around 1850 and the temperature has increased slightly due to this, but nothing abnormal is happening. Global warming alarmists will tell you the polar caps are melting. This isn't exactly true. The University of Illinois keeps the sea ice data. As you can see from the chart below, Arctic ice is decreasing. However, Antarctic ice is currently increasing. When you combine the two charts into a global sea ice chart, you can see sea ice has been very stable for the last 150 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at bluegrasspundit.com ...
No. We have been stable or cooling since 1998. AGW is a fraud. It is much more realistic to worry about global cooling.
Actually they’re disappearing due to creative airbrushing ..
I need the oceans to rise about 250 ft so I can have water front property.
Click on the image below to see Al Gore claim that the ice cap will vanish in five years!
(It will not. It is thicker and larger than ever.)
"The center of the Earth is millions of degrees..."
The center of the earth is estimated to actually be between 4000 and 6-7000 degrees.
:)
al gore with the flame thrower is to funny—lmao.. i think the earth’s climate change is natural, and not man made. earth’s weather patterns have been changing since the beginning and will continue if man was here or not— is man the cause of the ice age?
No.
They are melting because there is wealth that must be redistributed.
If so it's because of Creation not because of the created.
Are the Polar Caps Really Melting Due To Global Warming?
They might be melting because of "Global Warming" as that's a natural earth event. Global Cooling is a natural event, too.
BUT, the real and relevant question here -- is not -- is it because of Global Warming (which might be true) -- the real and relevant question is -- is it because of "Anthropogenic Global Warming" ... :-)
It’s one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but it’s quite another to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...
THEREFORE..., it’s also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply one video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the one...
The following is an excellent video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link. Information about BitTorrent protocol and BitTorrent clients and their comparison at these three links (in this sentence). Some additional BitTorrent information here and here.
Download it here...
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[This is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size. This link is the information about it, and you have to click the download link to get it on your BitTorrent client software. You'll also find users' comments here, too.]
It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course..., and also, you can download flash video on a website either yourself or some software doing it.]
Buy it on DVD here...
[this would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...] At Amazon, it seems to be high-priced now and have only a few copies right now.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WLUXZE
At WAGtv (a UK shop), but don't know about shipping. The price is reasonable, though.
https://www.wagtv.com/product/The-Great-Global-Warming-Swindle-322.html
[And..., some information from WAGtv about this item.]
Also, in split parts on YouTube...
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 1 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqqWJugXzs
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 2 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rGpDMN8lw
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 3 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzFL6Ixe_bo
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 4 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNQy2rT_dvU
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 5 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dzIMXGI6k8
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 6 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GjOgQN1Jco
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 7 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHI2GfbfrYw
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 8 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N9benJh3Lw
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Credits (Part 9 of 9)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_1ifP-ri58
Fluctuations most likely due to the natural wobble of the Earth.
Please! Do not try to use logic with these eco-retards. It will only further enrage them and drive them to make greater fools of them selves.
I don’t care if they are warming, I don’t care if they are cooling, I don’t care if they are staying the same...
Mankind is not responsible for any of it... period
TT
If I remember my geography correctly, there is no land mass under the North Pole anyway, so if the ice cover melts, the water levels won’t rise an inch. The Inuits can all buy convertibles and cut off jean shorts and start growing vegetables instead of killing all those furry little innocents for food. Sounds like everybody wins with GW to me.
true except for Greenland. But there are a few caveats to Greenland, while the whole thing melting would cause about 30 feet (IIRC) of sea level rise, the whole thing won't melt even if temps get back to Medieval levels. The proof is fairly simple, although Greenland was tree and habitable on the edges back then, sea levels were no more than 1/2 meter higher.
Another caveat is that while Greenland's glaciers sped up a bit in the 80's, 90's and early 00's, in 2005 they abruptly slowed to pre-80's speeds. The faster motion was not going to flood the world either. A final caveat is that even taking all of Greenland's ice and sticking it in the Sahara, it would take centuries to melt absorbing all the Saharan sunshine. The only flood would come from it somehow turning into slush and flowing into the ocean which would obviously raise sea levels. But there is no realistic danger of that and the current trend is the other direction.
palmer: true except for Greenland. But there are a few caveats to Greenland, while the whole thing melting would cause about 30 feet (IIRC) of sea level rise, the whole thing won't melt even if temps get back to Medieval levels. The proof is fairly simple, although Greenland was tree and habitable on the edges back then, sea levels were no more than 1/2 meter higher.
Another caveat is that while Greenland's glaciers sped up a bit in the 80's, 90's and early 00's, in 2005 they abruptly slowed to pre-80's speeds. The faster motion was not going to flood the world either. A final caveat is that even taking all of Greenland's ice and sticking it in the Sahara, it would take centuries to melt absorbing all the Saharan sunshine. The only flood would come from it somehow turning into slush and flowing into the ocean which would obviously raise sea levels. But there is no realistic danger of that and the current trend is the other direction.
True to a certain extent, but oversimplified. Global warming could open enormous tracts of agriculturally useless land in Siberia, Mongolia, Canada, Scandinavia, Alaska and Manchuria for human development. On the other hand, removing the weight of the ice on millions of square miles of land will increase volcanic activity. Deep inside the earth's crust, the pressure can reach thousands of pounds per square inch. The weight of the ice presses down on the earth's crust, increasing this pressure and prevents the formation of magma, in parts of the earth that would otherwise be sprouting active volcanoes like a 14-year-old sprouting zits. (See Iceland and the Aleutian Islands for examples.)
When we visited the two icecap sites they were at approximately 10,000' above sea level. I spoke with several geologist who were studying Greenland and here's what the said. The icecap was so heavy that the land on which they stood was actually below sealevel. The ice was melting due to the pressure of two miles of ice. Every year the snow replaced the ice melting below and thus the top of the icecap varied a few feet over time.
The DEW Line stations were built on stilts and ever few years the tops of the stilts were opened and additional I Beam were attached ad the jacks attached to the site would jack the site back up to operational height. We traveled to these sites on the pictured ski equipped C-130s. Supplies and stuff was flown in as required. The temperature at these sites were approximately the temperature on Mars! A high of 30 degrees and a low of -60 degrees. When the wind blow and storms formed the temperature might reach -90 degrees below zero. While traveling from Dye 2 to Dye 3 we had to wait because the Air forec would not let it's aircraft fly when the temp was -65 or lower. On that day it was -73 and it was five days before it "warmed up" to -63!
First picture was 1986 and second in 2006. See the snow build up!
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