Posted on 06/14/2009 11:03:10 AM PDT by Steelfish
Argentine glacier advances despite global warming
By JEANNETTE NEUMANN
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier is one of only a few ice fields worldwide that have withstood rising global temperatures.
Nourished by Andean snowmelt, the glacier constantly grows even as it spawns icebergs the size of apartment buildings into a frigid lake, maintaining a nearly perfect equilibrium since measurements began more than a century ago.
"We're not sure why this happens," said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. "But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change."
Viewed at a safe distance on cruise boats or the wooden observation deck just beyond the glacier's leading edge, Perito Moreno's jagged surface radiates a brilliant white in the strong Patagonian sun. Submerged sections glow deep blue.
And when the wind blows in a cloud cover, the 3-mile-wide (5 kilometer) glacier seems to glow from within as the surrounding mountains and water turn a meditative gray.
Every few years, Perito Moreno expands enough to touch a point of land across Lake Argentina, cutting the nation's largest freshwater lake in half and forming an ice dam as it presses against the shore.
The water on one side of the dam surges against the glacier, up to 200 feet (60 meters) above lake level, until it breaks the ice wall with a thunderous crash, drowning the applause of hundreds of tourists.
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What is it going to take to get these idiots to stop talking about global warming. It’s as though no amount of evidence is enough. Talk about cults, this is the real deal.
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“We’re not sure why this happens,” said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. “But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change.”
As the beer commercial says, “BRILLIANT!”.
Great video of the flood...
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1481810/perito_moreno_glacier_breaks/
I read Andres’ sentence and shook my head and muttered “holy sh**” and I generally don’t talk to myself or cuss.
Al Gore - call your office.
The leftists are so amusing sometimes and that would be fine if they weren’t so serious.
They think they are series.
Yeah, you’re right. Global temperatures are NOT rising. Get with the science.
“”We’re not sure why this happens,””
They want us to think they are idiots instead of traitors.
I thought that the bet line I’ve heard in a while. Of course, had the glacier been retreating the cause would not be in any doubt at all.
I wonder if these experts ever think of what they’re saying or just pull the mouth plug and let the head tub drain.
Personally I have no doubt why ice melts. Temps above 32 F. Generally created during the seasons of spring, fall and summer. The reason for said temps rising above 32 is the sun. The reason for temps staying consistently above 32 during times it’s supposed to be at or below is the sun’s activity. Record sun activity for the past ten years or so might be the cause of this so-called global warming. I hate “experts.” They stink.
Don’t state the obvious, make a mystery out of it. Ooooohh, why is this glacier still advancing?/SAR Couldn’t be because there is no frickin’ global warming, it has to be some mystery causing it.
Actually the earths temps have fallen over the last 10 years, not risen, and that is due to lower solar activity. We are in a sunspot minimum right now.
Maybe it’s made of ice-9?
Oh and while I’m at it.. It’s the middle of June right now. Usually I’ve at least debated going to the beach and at least dipping my toes in the always cold Lake Superior, but this year we’ve only broken 70 5 or 6 times. 3 of them this week. We were above 80 once. In May we had an avg. of 59 3 degrees below the normal average. Tell me again, looney left, where’s this global warming and how can I take part in this cult? I wish it were warmer up here now.
“We’re not sure why this happens,” said Andres Rivera, a glacialist with the Center for Scientific Studies in Valdivia, Chile. “But not all glaciers respond equally to climate change.”
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Oh, so now it’s climate change. Before it’s global warming.
If the earth has a fever, then it should be heating the whole earth. You can’t just exempt parts of the globe. Sorry, buddy, your theory doesn’t hold water.
I learned something new today... I didn’t know the avg. temps actually fell. I knew the earth wasn’t warming though. Thank you for that.
You asked — What is it going to take to get these idiots to stop talking about global warming. It’s as though no amount of evidence is enough. Talk about cults, this is the real deal.
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Ummm.., this documentary... :-)
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.
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[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]
It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
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[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]
Buy it here...
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[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]
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Also, in split parts on YouTube...
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 1 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMA6sszChwQ
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 2 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERisgJ3QWjk
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 3 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HLVYwmZoxc
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 4 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-AG3BA1Go
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 5 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbllTsBHuxk
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 6 of 8)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK7C1OrAAo
The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 7 of 8)
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The Great Global Warming Swindle (Part 8 of 8)
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You know why ice melts or doesn’t, I know why ice melts or doesn’t, but since neither of us works for The Center for Scientific Studies we don’t get paid good money to make dumb statements.
Maybe the air is really thin up in those mountains.
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