Posted on 01/20/2008 4:13:34 PM PST by NormsRevenge
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
I guess the sea was really calm the times they measured it.
Monitoring of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica, Reveals Wide New Crack
http://nsidc.org/iceshelves/pine_island
22 March 2001
Pine Island Glacier has undergone a steady loss of elevation with retreat of the grounding line in recent decades. Now, space imagery has revealed a wide new crack that some scientists think will soon result in a calving event.
Glaciologist Robert Bindschadler of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center predicts this crack will result in the calving of a major iceberg, probably in less than 18 months.
Discovery of the crack was possible due to multi-year image archives and high resolution imagery. “This multi-year archive of Landsat 7 images is an invaluable investment in research on Antarctica,” says Bindschadler.
ASTER and MODIS images can also shed light features of the Antarctic surface, including the recently discovered crack. NASA’s Earth Observing System, for which NSIDC is a distributed active archive center, distributes both MODIS and ASTER data in addition to Landsat data.
Well, they say even a broken watch is right twice a day. Melting ice? Dead Polar Bears and Penguins? GLOBAL WARMING!!!
And the moon in exactly the same position... Oh, wait, they use magic averages. Keep forgetting that. Averages that get 'adjusted' to properly reflect the theory of global warming.
Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea
http://www.mnforsustain.org/climate_antarctica_glaciers_melting.htm
September 24, 2004
Pine Island Glacier is included in a mixed piece on glaciers and sea level changes
We need to demand immediate attention to this by our legislators! Volcanoes must be outlawed! We can NOT tolerate random acts of volcanoeing! Won’t you think of the children!?!
>compassionate head tilt<
Now, someone organize a concert for Musicians Against Volcanoes.
A powerful volcano erupted under the icesheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago
Ahhh jeeeze i thought this happened today ! i was gonna break out my swimmin trunks and head north
Water levels have been rising a lot longer than anyone has thought, or else several people hundreds of years ago devoted their lives to a joke nobody ever caught onto.
ping, mabye ggg?
The 2004 Sumatran tsunami was measured across the entire world.
Believe it or not you can achieve extreme accuracy in sea level measurement.
Is subsidence possible in that region?
Well that took away all credibility this scientist has.
BTW, looking at the photo, it indicates a sub glacial heat source, just from the pattern of surface stress fractures. They are too regular and lengthy to be caused by glacial movement alone.
If it were global "warming", the fractures would not be localized around a suingle heat source.
Notice the surrounding ice sheet has no fractures, or evidence of "melting"
Sometimes I believe these global warming freeks assume the rest of the world is stupid. I know Al Gorp does. Maybe its catching.
Cha-ching!
Get the Japanese or Icelanders in to build a geothermal Spa.
Am I the first to say “BUSH’S FAULT!”
Kinda like running hot water over the bottom of the ice cube tray. A big DUH!!
Whoops...look like they forgot something in their model...like the interaction of the earth and the necessity of the earth blowing off BIIIIG farts under pressure!
They just can't let that loopie theory go can they? The surface of the worlds oceans is lumpy as an old mattress. It responds to mass concentrations near the surface of the mantel (ocean floor) because such concentrations change the direction and magnitude of Earth's gravity field. That in turn cause the water's surface to form high and low spots. Additionally, the earth's rotation causes the ocean surface to bulge out at the equator and slump lower at the poles. Furthermore nearly constant winds cause waves and swells and underwater land motions (landslides, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, &c.) create dramatic "rogue" waves and Tsunamis. Weather systems further disrupt the surface with differential pressures of ever changing magnitude (storm surge).
That all goes to say that the surface of the world's oceans are dynamic and in constant motion. How then can we pretend to measure such a thing as "sea level" to one thousandths of an inch precision when the dynamic perturbations are varying from feet to fathoms?
Regards,
GtG
you gave numbers but no reference...are you talking feet or steps?
Hey mannnn.....ixnay on the owcay.....you’re not suppposed to talk about it!!!!!!!!!
anomalous radar reflections over 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 sq. miles), an area bigger than Wales.
Of course an area of ice the size of Wales suddenly covered with black ash and debris might just warm up considerable resulting in increased release of fresh water into the oceans?
Ice Cores Unlock Climate Secrets
BBC | 6-9-2004 | Julianna Kettlewell
Posted on 06/09/2004 6:27:33 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1150739/posts
Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica
Near Earth Object Information Centre | 8/20/2004 | staff
Posted on 10/18/2004 12:26:51 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1248406/posts
The Eltanin Impact Crater
Geological Society of America | October 27-30, 2002 | Christy A. Glatz, Dallas H. Abbott, and Alice A. Nunes
Posted on 10/18/2004 12:46:13 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1248414/posts
Ancient Cataclysm Rearranged Pacific Map, Study Says
National Geographic News | 10-24-2007 | Julian Ryall
Posted on 10/24/2007 5:48:01 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915860/posts
Emory paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia
Emory University | October 19, 2007 | Unknown
Posted on 10/21/2007 10:02:54 AM EDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914204/posts
Big Bang In Antarctica — Killer Crater Found Under Ice
Ohio State University | 01 June 2006 | Staff (press release)
Posted on 06/01/2006 5:26:58 PM EDT by PatrickHenry
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641966/posts
Giant Crater Found [in Antarctica]: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever [Permo-Triassic]
SPACE.com | June 2, 2006 | Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 06/02/2006 2:44:43 PM EDT by cogitator
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1642426/posts
Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice?
nature news | 2 06 | Mark Peplow
Posted on 06/05/2006 12:07:10 PM EDT by S0122017
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1643681/posts
Recovering From A Mass Extinction
Science Daily | 1-20-2008 | University of Bristol
Posted on 01/19/2008 7:13:15 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956470/posts
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