"Is it red HOT mag..ma?
Posted on 12/14/2007 7:56:59 AM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
SAN FRANCISCO - Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.
In recent years, Greenland’s ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea — a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to recently released data — and Earth’s rising temperatures are suspected to be the main culprit.
But clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth’s insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
How did Bush do this?
He may be greater than we ever thought.
Notice there’s no press about the EXPANDING Antartic ice and the cooling trend going on there?
I still don’t buy that if it all melted the seas would rise... some goes into the ground.. some into the air, some into the sea..
even if it did, continents always shift.. coastlines change. big deal.
Land of the Blue Lagoon? Home to many of the world’s geothermal energy plants? Nope, didn’t see this article coming...
You are thinking of Iceland.
You mean there are actually still NATURAL geologic, oceonographic and meteorologic events occurring on the planet?
Who’d uv thunk it?
But clues to a new natural contribution to the melt arose when scientists discovered a thin spot in the Earth’s crust under the northeast corner of the Greenland Ice Sheet where heat from Earth's insides could seep through, scientists will report here this week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
“The behavior of the great ice sheets is an important barometer of global climate change,” said lead scientist Ralph von Frese of Ohio State University. “However, to effectively separate and quantify human impacts on climate change, we must understand the natural impacts too.”
Ralph, be careful, you are about 5 seconds from being thrown under the bus by the Global Warming Crowd!
You’re right. I completely glossed over the title of the article. Regardless, it’s the same magma.
"Is it red HOT mag..ma?
Save the polar bears! Don’t club baby seals!
I wish he would go up there and check it out. Then not come back.
First for words still tells the story of what these wing-nuts really think is to blame.
I’ll bet Al is pretty happy about this, ‘cause it points out that his thoughts on Greenland are on a magma cum laude level!
OK, OK. I’ll keep my day job.
Glad to see the idea receiving further attention.
“Magma may be melting Greenland ice “
This can’t be.
Everyone knows you can’t have volcanoes and icefields in the same country!
(/sarc!)
(And of course, Iceland is just one counter-example)
The main point is that in most places where “the scientists” inform the public that ice is decreasing (Antarctica, Greenland) they are intentionally leaving out the fact that the ice may be reducing on one part of the continent (the western slope of Antarctica, e.g.), but it is increasing on other parts (the eastern slope of Antarctica, e.g.). The last I checked, there was a net gain in ice coverage in Antarctica. I’d have to recheck that to make sure it is still accurate. There was also substantial ice gains on other parts of Greenland.
This is the type of deceptive misinformation Leftist scientists employ and that Bjorn Lomberg has done such an excellent job in revealing (in the Skeptical Environmentalist), and for which he has been demonized and ostracized by the scientific Left.
btt
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