ARCTIC MELTDOWN STORY ON CBS

Chief WSI/INTELLICAST Meteorologist ^ | August 29, 2002 | by Joe D'Aleo

[FireTrack]

Seems more and more are jumping on the natural cycle bandwagon!

[boris]

"The Pacific Decadal Oscillationor"

I use one of those in my Interositor.

Or maybe it's my Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

--Boris

[CARTOUCHE]

And I'll bet CBS didn't mention that the Antarctic ice is showing signs of thickening again either. That wouldn't comport with their "it's man-made global warming, we're all gonna die" mantra of the past 15 yrs.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Remember all the fools who were screaming that the coast line would be submerged if the Arctic ice cap were to melt? The completely ignore the fact that ice is less dense than water and thus takes up more room as a solid than a liquid.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Good find, and Bookmarked.

[FireTrack]

"I use one of those in my Interositor.

Or maybe it's my Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator."

ROTF!

[gcruse]

In 1961, I was a young sailor going
to radio school on the Norfolk naval base.
We were learning to receive and transcribe
Morse code at maybe 20wpm at that
phase of the training.

One Saturday, they ran an old Flash Gordon
serial episode at the exchange.  Flash was
using, and I'll never forget it, what he
called a 'skillioscope' (your spelling may vary).
The skillioscope was putting out code at
at about a dit or a dah per second.  But
Flash was reading information out of it
as fast as he could talk.  Naturally, a
movie audience composed of probably
twenty-percent radioman cracked up
long and loud.  It was a hoot.

[Amerigomag]

Junk science at it's finest.

[FireTrack]

"That wouldn't comport with their "it's man-made global warming, we're all gonna die" mantra"

Of course not, then no one would tune in to find out what's gonna get us first!

[GnuHere]

I think I was unfortunate enough to see one of the CBS pieces you mention. The word "may" was expansively used; as in "this MAY lead to...", "which MAY mean that...", and that "MAY result in blah blah blah".

All speculation, none of it backed up by evidence, yet paraded to the naive public as fact: THESE POOR POLAR BEARS ARE ON THIN ICE!!

[Jumpmaster]

"The Pacific Decadal Oscillationor"

I use one of those in my Interositor.

Or maybe it's my Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

--Boris


and I use one in my Orgasmatron!

[FireTrack]

"Good find, and Bookmarked."

I like Artic studies, reminds me of a few women I've met! :-?

[Dog Gone]

The planet is always getting warmer or cooler. It never has stayed the same, and somehow this fact cannot be understood by the average American.

[Aracelis]

somehow this fact cannot be understood by the average American.,/p>

Well it could be understood by more...if the public school system actually taught real science and critical thinking.

[speekinout]

The completely ignore the fact that ice is less dense than water and thus takes up more room as a solid than a liquid.

Please don't use that argument. Most of the Arctic glaciers are on land.
The real argument is that the glaciers have grown and receded over the years. If you look at their footprints over the time that we have been tracking them (not much more than 100 years) you really can't tell if this is an extraordinary recession.

[Waco]

The folks at CBS should consider hanging themselves, before "something" kills them! Burp!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I remember some of the discussion 50 years ago. One theory was that if the Arctic ice sheet melted, that would mean that there would be evaporation from the suface of the Arctic Ocean, which would fall as snow in interior Canada, where it is colder. This increase in snow accumulation would lead to thick layers of snow, which would eventually become ice. As the ice accumulated, it would start sliding south, causing a new Ice Age.

I expect that this theory will soon be coming to a TV set near you, while the alarmists turn on a dime from fears of global warming to fears of a new ice age.

[Erasmus]

I don't have any examples at hand, but lots of the technicians in the movie industry were (and are) hams.

So when the techs were asked to come up with some 'morse code' effects, they could be counted on to embed some hidden message--often a snippet of a QSO with their own call signs.

I know there are some examples in the Disney oeuvre.

Here's a link I found.

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[gcruse]

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[thucydides]

Another aspect is that glacier size relates less to ambient temperature than it does to snowfall accumulation at the glacier's head. According to some, "global warming," if it exists, would cause increased snowfall in cold regions, thereby increasing glacier size.