Drained Lake Holds Record Of Ancient (Warmer) Alaska

Sit News ^ | Ned Rozell

[combat_boots]

I am certain the Midwest would be happy to ship snow to them. Especially Wisconsin, aka Alaska South.

Seriously, there’s been a whole lot of cold and snow later in the season than last year.

[Verginius Rufus]

The lake drained in 1999, before Bush became President, so it’s more likely Ken Starr’s fault.

[aruanan]

When Loso and his colleagues used the thickness of layers (called "varves") to interpret warmth in the area of Iceberg Lake, they found that summer temperatures in that part of the state were warmer in the late 20th century than they were during the Medieval Warm Period.

Not only that, they saw that Iceberg Lake had never drained during the Medieval Warm Period. Since the catastrophic leakage in 1999, the lake has drained of meltwater every year except for 2001. With such erratic behavior after centuries of stability, Iceberg Lake might be saying that Alaska has been warmer recently than it has been in a long, long time.

Or that preceding the Medieval Warm Period was about 1000 years of much colder climate laying down so much snow and ice that a couple hundred years of warming were not sufficient to melt the glaciers enough to drain the lake. However, after a relatively brief Little Ice Age, warming continued to the point that, finally, enough ice was lost to permit the lake to drain.

[Pining_4_TX]

Obviously they suffered from global warming back then due to their lack of mercury filled curly Q light bulbs. I mean, duh, everybody knows that!

[Irene Adler]

"Why would God create things in fits and spurts to confuse and confound us when it would make more sense to set up a self consistent system of natural processes that tell his story of infinite wisdom with their beautiful simplicity?"

It may make more sense to you, or more likely you would like it better, but you are not God. He does things his way, not our way.

[SunkenCiv]

The lake, known as Iceberg Lake to people in McCarthy, about 50 airmails to the north, had been part of the landscape for as long as people could remember... After holding water for centuries, Iceberg Lake in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains drained in 1999 and has lost its water every year since except 2001... each two layers of sediment-a thinner layer of fine-grained deposits that settled in winter and coarser sand forced in with summer runoff-represented a year in the life of the lake... records usually don't go back farther than the Little Ice Age, a cold period from about 1600 to 1850 when many glaciers advanced. Those glaciers plowed over most of the landscape, but Iceberg Lake seemed to have escaped the gradual assault... So instead of having a record of just the last few hundred years, the floor of Iceberg Lake held a continuous record from 1998 back to A.D. 442, a span of more than 1,500 years... When Loso and his colleagues used the thickness of layers (called "varves") to interpret warmth in the area of Iceberg Lake, they found that summer temperatures in that part of the state were warmer in the late 20th century than they were during the Medieval Warm Period.

I guess that explains why the sealevel was a few meters higher during the MWP than it is now -- wait, no it doesn't! But it explains why abandoned medieval farmsteads are found at higher altitudes and latitudes than they are today -- wait, no it doesn't! :') Thanks blam. Too bad the results will be rubber-stamped "approved" and no one else will study these varves unless they accept the interpretation of this supposed study.

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[Bender2]

Re: Image of Alien spaceship found in the lake.

I hate to disagree with you... but Leslie Nielsen told me early one morning after an all night drinking bout that he landed his United Planets Cruiser C-57D in that very same Alaskan lake after the wrap party for Forbidden Planet. And knowing the totally honest fella he is, he also stated that his spaceship was the only one in that lake! He sent me a photo--

And it appears... the C-57D is in the lower right of the photo!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Publius6961]

Anthropological Global Warming!!!

Wait.

There's also lake Missoula. Did the same thing, only was 10000 times bigger, and did the exact same thing (ice dams) many times over the last few million years.

... never mind...

[Eye of Unk]

You know I actually live in Alaska, never heard of this lake though.

And BTW good image, if I had any puter skills I could have done better!

[FBD]

Yes, but note how the artcle finishes:

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“With such erratic behavior after centuries of stability, Iceberg Lake might be saying that Alaska has been warmer recently than it has been in a long, long time.”

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The writer (Ned Rozell) couldn’t resist...

[FBD]

yup, funny one Bill. -every kids first reel. ;^)

[TXnMA]

Nicely put!

[RightWhale]

That one was way beyond the usual
UFO crowd, but tonight was actually bad with the Christian bashing. Very bad.

[colorado tanker]

Yep. Single malt.

[Bender2]

Re: ...good image, if I had any puter skills I could have done better!

Hey, Eye, surely you cannot blame me. I told you Leslie Nielsen... gave me the photo!

I told you! Don't... call me Shirley!

And don't call... him "sweetcheeks" either!