Posted on 07/10/2009 2:41:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo... The proof of such rapid retreat of ice sheets provides one of the few explicit confirmations that this phenomenon occurs. Should the same conditions recur today, which the UB scientists say is very possible, they would result in sharply rising global sea levels, which would threaten coastal populations...The researchers used a special dating tool at UB to study rock samples they extracted from a large fjord that drained the ice sheet that covered the North American Arctic during the past Ice Age. The samples provided the researchers with climate data over a period from 20,000 years ago to about 5,000 years ago, a period when significant warming occurred.
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They need to look at the bigger picture before making rash statements about the Greenland and Antarctic sheets, however. We know they haven't melted in 400,000 years - we've got the ice core data. Meanwhile, the North American sheets advanced and retreated several times. I've seen no data suggesting the interior ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are melting.
Up until now I had been a skeptic, however, after reading this there is no way that I can go on denying the robust nature of the evidence..
I went to the scientific study itself and got this unique dating device’s specifications and threw one together in my garage an hour ago — at least the part I couldn’t scrape off the door— it told me that the concrete on my garage floor was poured on April 1967 beteen 9:00 am and 2:00 pm.
Other than my disappointment that it couldn’t tell me how long it took to cure, I think this new tool will revolutionize domestic relationships for years to come, just smear a thin film on a new calendar every year and all of those important dates we used to forget will be etched in perpetutity.
Good post.
We are all gonna Die! !
Well - how about “We are all gonna drown!”
The Earth is billions of years old and will happily take care of itself.
"Sheets in Rescission"
How about E-Carbony?
Get it?
We have a national park including the Exit Glacier. It is on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. As you approach the toe of the glacier and the visitor center there are dated road signs beginning in 1896. I can't cite the distance but from the first sign it is a few miles to the glacier.
The US Government has been plotting the retreat of this glacier since 1896 and it has shrunk in a geologic semi instant very dramatically.
The researchers used a special dating tool at UB to study rock samples they extracted from a large fjord that drained the ice sheet that covered the North American Arctic during the past Ice Age.
All I can say is that thank goodness for the technical information made available to us by Science Daily.
I now know where I went wrong following the plans in the 1949 issue of Popular Mechanics. The critical pieces have been sitting in one of the kitchen drawers all along.
Dr Paul Siple eat your heart out!
But where did the pre-dirt come from?
One must have faith either in God or the alternative, slow-motion spontaneous generation.
“More proof that the insane Algore and his EnviroBuddies are overreacting again. Somebody needs to get the boy some Prozac.”
Al Gore owns 2 or 3 companies(scams) that position him to make a fortune from this cap N Trade fiasco.
Wanna see a glacier disappear?
Wanna see it again?
Shame on you...
The media, nevertheless, love reporting unsupported scare scenarios. Last April (2007), the cover of Time magazine declared, "Be worried, be very worried." Amid lots of scary pictures of deserts, floods, and hurricanes, it said, "Global warming is already disrupting the biological world, pushing many species to the brink of extinction and turning others into runaway pests. But the worst is yet to come." On July 24, 1974, Time published an article titled "Another Ice Age?" that read, "... the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age." It's not just Time magazine that's unreliable on global warming. The popular press features possible crises on their front pages all the time, because bad news sells and they are in the business of selling copies of their publications and generating ad revenue, not reporting the truth about complicated subjects. As they say in the business, "if it bleeds, it leads." These are the same guys who told us Alar, saccharin, Red Dye #2, dioxin, a hole in the ozone layer, electric power lines, and cell phones were all causing cancer epidemics, and that Y2K would shut down the nation's electric grid and banks. They were wrong on every one of these issues. Cancer rates in the United States for the non-elderly population have been falling since 1970, and more recently for the total population including the elderly, and more recently still, even the absolute number of cancer deaths is now falling. Somehow, the false predictions always appear in banner headlines on page 1, but the retractions appear on page 37, next to ads for septic tank pumps. The major media will wake up eventually, and in 2010 or 2020 they will once again be trying to sell newspapers and magazines by predicting global cooling. The point is, nobody should trust the mainstream media to tell us what's going on in the global warming debate.   |
Gee, I don’t know what to think. I hope it’s not a trick and that someone finally decided to use their thinker.
It even has pictures.
Bottom line, it will take a long time, and we'll still have enough land to grow our crops, and a longer growing season to grow them.
The only real problem will be that some groups will be displaced, and their neighbors may not be very accommodating about taking them in.
Put yourself in their place after all: We're not just talking about Bangladeshis seeking shelter in India. We're also dealing with New Yorkers asking for help from Pennsylvanians!
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