He's moved on to more important causes.
Posted on 08/21/2006 2:28:46 PM PDT by finnman69
Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.
Danish researchers from Aarhus University studied glaciers on Disko island, in western Greenland in the Atlantic, from the end of the 19th century until the present day.
"This study, which covers 247 of 350 glaciers on Disko, is the most comprehensive ever conducted on the movements of Greenland's glaciers," glaciologist Jacob Clement Yde, who carried out the study with Niels Tvis Knudsen, told AFP.
Using maps from the 19th century and current satellite observations, the scientists were able to conclude that "70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at a rate of around eight meters per year," Yde said.
"We studied 95 percent of the area covered by glaciers in Disko and everything indicates that our results are also valid for the glaciers along the coasts of the rest of Greenland," he said.
The biggest reduction was observed between 1964 and 1985.
100 years? Horsecrap! They started melting January 20, 2001 at 12:01pm!
Algore has been blowing smoke for about 55 years.
He's moved on to more important causes.
Greenland will be a green land again?
It's all Bush's fault! His grandfather Prescott Bush started releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 1895 (when he was born), and look at what's happened to the Greenland glaciers since?
Notice, btw, how the Greenies don't mind calling it "mankind" in this context, and aren't so interested in "personkind" or "womankind" when it comes to blaming someone for the planet melting?
Those damn vikings caused global cooling!
Anything GOOD that happened is the result of some forerunner of collectivism.
I refuse to play Doofus Gore's game and call it "global warming"...
It's cyclical climate change. "Warming and cooling" is controversial only to idiots. Climate has been constantly changing for hundreds of thousands of years.
The current debate is whether the change is primarily, or even significantly, due to human activities.
This article suggests, one more time: unlikely.
But the moonbats would have us adopt 18th-century lifestyles to "combat" an imaginary neurotic problem.
"70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at a rate of around eight meters per year," Yde said."
Proves, rather than disproves, man's responsibility for global warming. Although global warming is clearly meant as an attack on the post-WWII prosperity that began in the US, spread to Europe, and has gained hold wherever Communism, Anarchy and Tyranny do not reign, and in some places where they do, the start of the "industrial period" that is blamed for global warming is flexible, and its start can be placed anywhere from 1880 to 1980, to fit the data, or the argument.
Reminds me of a very good book on all this: The skeptical environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg. Another Danish scientist who values data over hype.
If you really want to laugh, take a look at the 1-star reviews of the book at Amazon. They are truly amazing.
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Move along people. Nothing to see here...
I've been keeping my liberal colleagues at work off-balance by constantly changing my mind about "global warming" depending on what the temperature that day is. Like, earlier in the summer they were congratulating each other on how important Gore's movie was going to be, and I told them that the sun caused global warming and they got outraged at me. Then, when we were in the middle of that big heat spell, I told them the scales had fallen from my eyes and I believed AlGore was right after all. At our next meeting I'm planning to tell them I think Gore's all wet again because the weather's been unseasonably cool.
The world is only 1C. warmer than the temperatures that caused global crop failures in the early 1800s and before. I for one would like a little more distance between us and the Little Ice Age.
Great picture. Notice that everyone is posing, even though the camera is too far away to pick up their faces.
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