Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/05/2010 1:12:29 PM PDT by PROCON
Earlier this summer, a group of scientists spent two weeks in Indonesia atop a glacier called Puncak Jaya, one of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world. They were taking samples of ice cores to study the impacts of climate change on the glacier.
Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led the team and what he witnessed shocked him: The glacier was literally melting under their feet.
Thompson tells NPR's Guy Raz he has conducted 57 expeditions around the world, but this trip was unusual. It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.
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Great AGW scare title Ping!
Was he writing his name in the snow when it started?
ROFLOL, your on a roll today!
Ice melts. Who knew?
Come back in a month, it’ll start freezing again.
Stupid place for a glacier anyways - 2 degrees from the equator and all. (I did some work at the mine across the valley from the glacier - snowed twice in the three months I was there!)
Why BS ??? Any sane person standing within a 'melting' glacier probably wouldn't make it out of there alive. Something about instability of such a rapidly melting structure or some sort .. and of course there is all that slipping and falling into a ravine and such. I call BS on this 'observation'
National Palisimian Radio steps in it again with this one: “If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul.”
Could be worse, they could be Democrats, who are about to lose their collective a$$es and control of DC.
In 1960 I went into the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland. A tunnel had been dug deep into the glacier and a plank walkway to walk on. You could hear the water trickling out under the planks to form the Rhone River. Fabulous experience! Never will forget it.
......Hyperbole, as a Fine Art.
Glacier in Indonesia near the equator. LOL! Maybe they should be looking for The Imam’s BC in his Muslim home country of Indo.
Glaciers ablate in the summer, especially equatorial ones. The question is do they replace those losses in the winter. A glacier is either advancing or retreating. Most glaciers have been in retreat since 1850 as the world has emerged from the little ice age. Ricky scientist knows this of course, but his next grant is contingent on how big a lie he can manage to tell.
Indonesia is is**mic and m**l*ms have no soul. F you NPR.
Did he ever see snow fall?
...actually it makes sense that a glacier would melt more rapidly as it got smaller: volume/surface-area ratio is common in calculating/measuring heat-transfer.
Shouldn’t the question be more along the lines “does it come back at all?” I mean sometimes it shows in New Mexico or Arizona... but I have yet to see alarm raised because it melts.
Who would guess that a glacier located in the tropics would have a limited lifespan?
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