Posted on 02/21/2015 7:27:19 AM PST by shove_it
But, but NASA said it was the warmest January ever! /s
They’re going bonkers over the heat right now...in Australia.
Humph!
Thanks for the ping.
The first time I witnessed it freezing out to those islands was in the mid nineties. We had come up for a weekend, and you could see the ice all the way out. I carefully stepped out there on a windless day with my cross country skis on. I went out about a couple of hundred feet off shore, but it was snow covered, with mounds everywhere, so I couldn't ski very well.
It was an amazing feeling, but was unnerving as the audible groaning sounds of the ice were everywhere. It would make eerie, whale like sounds.
Needless to say, I got spooked and came back in. I have heard that is a common sound, and really doesn't mean the ice is breaking, it's just expanding and contracting with the water underneath it. Last year I walked way out, plus there were literally tens of thousands of people visiting those ice caves, walking around on fairly thick ice. It was pretty safe out there until March.
Btw, the writer of that blog post(and owner) is a serious believer in man made global warming climate change.
“You know something is wrong when 23 degrees feels warm.........36 degrees warmer than yesterday morning’s -13.....LOL!”.....
In Minnesota, young folks begin jogging in shorts when the temperature reaches 35 degrees in March. And, the funny thing about it - it really does feel a bit balmy then.
I’ve been ice fishing on Lake St. Clair several times as a kid back in the 1950s off Grosse Pointe and watched the ice boat races. I’ve never walked on Lake Michigan, tho. I’ve skied Boyne Mtn & Highlands, Nubs and Waloon many times late 50s - early 70s and sailed GT Bay, Long Lake and Lake Charlevoix too. Your area of Michigan holds some of my fondest memories. A Petosky stone helps keep the cat from kicking my papers off my puter desk.
I hear a friend of Obama’s named Buffet has a whole bunch of Tanker Rail Cars that he uses to transport Crude Oil since we don't have the Keystone Pipeline built “yet”.
Time to do a little re-purposing.
It takes a bunch of snow to equal an inch of rain. A tank-car full of snow in Maine will arrive with only a few inches of water in LeftCoastAstan. It may be worth doing tho, if the cars would be otherwise returning empty.
Darn, I thought I had it all figured out.
I guess they had better let the Snow melt in some big holding tanks, then transport the Water. Better yet, build a Pipeline. The Eco Nuts would support that, right?
I live in S.CA. Haven’t touched Snow since I flew back East Years ago. LOL
As the largest city on Lake Ontario Toronto is full of smug and the lake gets the spillover.
There was a finite amount of water at the creation of earth.It was in three forms: Liquid, solid (ice) and vapor. It’s as you say. Put a bunch of ice cubes in a glass and pour in water until the ice floats at the rim. Does the glass overflow when the ice melts?
But where is the warming?
It will reach a balmy 29 degrees tomorrow. Then it starts dropping again but it will be nice to be able to walk into church without my nose being frozen shut. :)
Melting SEA ice does not affect SEA level. Melting ice on LAND does. What matters is the last amount of ice on the Antarctic continent and Greenland.
The Arctic is sea ice. The Antarctic is surrounded by sea ice. As you say, water from melting sea ice has less volume than when it was ice.
Greenland has a large ice cap
Where is that???
Awesome.
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Isn’t all of Greenland’s ice on land?
Except for a few small coastal areas.
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