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Greenland, Antarctic Ice 'in Runaway Melt Mode'
Fox news - AP ^
| Wednesday, September 23, 2009
| Staff
Posted on 09/23/2009 6:51:13 PM PDT by PilotDave
New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode.
British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height of the vulnerable but massive ice sheets and found them especially worse at their edges. That is where warmer water eats away from below. In some parts of Antarctica, ice sheets have been losing 30 feet a year in thickness since 2003, according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; catastrophism; envirowackos; globalwarming; theskyisfalling
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Why do I suspect some smart people are going to shred this?
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:51:14 PM PDT
by
PilotDave
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:53:04 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PilotDave
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:54:10 PM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
(We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
To: PilotDave
From Article:
These new measurements, based on 50 million laser readings from a NASA satellite... There's your problem right there - all those laser blasts are melting the ice cap. Just turn the damn things off!
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:54:30 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: PilotDave
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:57:26 PM PDT
by
Carl LaFong
(Experts say experts should be ignored.)
To: PilotDave
Why did they call it Greenland...
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posted on
09/23/2009 6:57:57 PM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: Carl LaFong
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:05:11 PM PDT
by
Coachm
To: PilotDave
Greenland is in the Arctic... what a bunch of BS. Recent studies have shown that the the ice shelf in Greenland is growing thicker in the center and thinner on the edge... it is actually adding ice... Antarctica is not melting. All of this has been posted in the last few months... right here on FR.
LLS
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:09:12 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
To: PilotDave
British scientists for the first time calculated changes in the height...Then what is their baseline?
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:12:32 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: Army Air Corps; Defendingliberty; Genesis defender; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; ...
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:18:42 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
To: PilotDave
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:27:11 PM PDT
by
Sender
(It's never too late to be who you could have been.)
To: Sender
We can expect the Empire State building to be under water within mere weeks. Also should note that the sky is falling.
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:32:56 PM PDT
by
reader25
To: PilotDave
Total BS.
Normal is green, that’s why they named it Greenland.
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:48:00 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: PilotDave
Why do I suspect some smart people are going to shred this? This is why.
... according to a paper published online Thursday in the journal Nature.
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posted on
09/23/2009 7:57:35 PM PDT
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
To: PilotDave
A million years from now none of this is going to matter.
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posted on
09/23/2009 8:01:20 PM PDT
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: PilotDave
Snow fall at the center is collecting faster than the glaciers are melting for a net gain in ice. But that doesn’t fit the template.
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posted on
09/23/2009 8:12:49 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: PilotDave
What’s happened is that too many people have noticed that the air and the land temperatures have stopped increasing, especially at anything near the accelerating CO2 trend line and now they have switched gears to focus on the ocean temps.
These temps, covering some 71% of the globe’s surface are even easier to assign mysterious effects to as they have no continuous coverage contradicting any ‘new’ data from the ‘latest’ report which starts the sequence of discovery, adjustment and conclusion all over again.
A moving target is hard to fix both sights and markers on.
Circulation patterns and peripheral effects from ocean temperature shifts have always been treated as natural events not influenced by the general atmosphere above.
Water freezes and water melts depending on where water finds itself.
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posted on
09/23/2009 8:26:59 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: PilotDave
To: Old Professer; PilotDave; SunkenCiv
Hundreds of years ago, Greenland was habitable and parts of it arable. There's the old tale that Eric the Red discovered Iceland, which was volcanic and a good place to inhabit and Greenland which was less so but still accomodating. Old Eric manipulated the names for the Vikings' benefit by discouraging settlement in Iceland and tricking others to seek marginal Greenland.
It worked for the longest time until in 1941, the USAF settled there at Thule.
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posted on
09/23/2009 8:49:09 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Government needs a Keelhauling now and then.)
To: Talisker
Also, there is no satellite in orbit that is designed to measure ice thickness. The first one CryoSat1 crashed on launched in 2005, a new one CryoSat 2 was schedule to be launched in December, but now has been delayed until February, 2010 at the earliest.
http://www.spacenews.com/civil/cryosat-2-delay.html
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