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Scientist Watches Glacier Melt Beneath His Feet (LOL)
npr.org ^ | Sep. 5, 2010 | NPR staff

Posted on 09/05/2010 1:12:29 PM PDT by PROCON

Earlier this summer, a group of scientists spent two weeks in Indonesia atop a glacier called Puncak Jaya, one of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world. They were taking samples of ice cores to study the impacts of climate change on the glacier.

Lonnie Thompson, a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, led the team and what he witnessed shocked him: The glacier was literally melting under their feet.

Thompson tells NPR's Guy Raz he has conducted 57 expeditions around the world, but this trip was unusual. It was the first one where he experienced rain on the glacier every day.

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1 posted on 09/05/2010 1:12:32 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Great AGW scare title Ping!


2 posted on 09/05/2010 1:13:23 PM PDT by PROCON (6 Days Until 9-11, We Must Always Remember!)
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To: PROCON

Was he writing his name in the snow when it started?


3 posted on 09/05/2010 1:17:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

ROFLOL, your on a roll today!


4 posted on 09/05/2010 1:19:52 PM PDT by PROCON (6 Days Until 9-11, We Must Always Remember!)
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To: PROCON

Ice melts. Who knew?


5 posted on 09/05/2010 1:20:45 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ('“Our own government has become our enemy' - Sheriff Paul Babeu)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Come back in a month, it’ll start freezing again.


6 posted on 09/05/2010 1:22:21 PM PDT by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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To: PROCON

Stupid place for a glacier anyways - 2 degrees from the equator and all. (I did some work at the mine across the valley from the glacier - snowed twice in the three months I was there!)


7 posted on 09/05/2010 1:22:44 PM PDT by 21twelve ( You can go from boom to bust, from dreams to a bowl of dust ... another lost generation.)
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To: PROCON; livius; DollyCali; IrishCatholic; meyer; SteamShovel; Desdemona; grey_whiskers; ...
Thanx PROCON !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

8 posted on 09/05/2010 1:23:34 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
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To: PROCON
The glacier was literally melting under their feet.

Why BS ??? Any sane person standing within a 'melting' glacier probably wouldn't make it out of there alive. Something about instability of such a rapidly melting structure or some sort .. and of course there is all that slipping and falling into a ravine and such. I call BS on this 'observation'

9 posted on 09/05/2010 1:27:02 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: PROCON

National Palisimian Radio steps in it again with this one: “If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul.”

Could be worse, they could be Democrats, who are about to lose their collective a$$es and control of DC.


10 posted on 09/05/2010 1:29:45 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Mr_Moonlight

In 1960 I went into the Rhone Glacier in Switzerland. A tunnel had been dug deep into the glacier and a plank walkway to walk on. You could hear the water trickling out under the planks to form the Rhone River. Fabulous experience! Never will forget it.


11 posted on 09/05/2010 1:33:24 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: PROCON
Massive deforestation has been taking place around this mountain for decades. Deforestation is cited as a prime factor in the shrinking of the Mount Kilimanjaro glacier in Africa.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16031

12 posted on 09/05/2010 1:33:45 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: PROCON
"If they lose the glaciers then they’re going to lose part of their soul."

......Hyperbole, as a Fine Art.

13 posted on 09/05/2010 1:34:25 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: PROCON

Glacier in Indonesia near the equator. LOL! Maybe they should be looking for The Imam’s BC in his Muslim home country of Indo.


14 posted on 09/05/2010 1:34:42 PM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: PROCON

Glaciers ablate in the summer, especially equatorial ones. The question is do they replace those losses in the winter. A glacier is either advancing or retreating. Most glaciers have been in retreat since 1850 as the world has emerged from the little ice age. Ricky scientist knows this of course, but his next grant is contingent on how big a lie he can manage to tell.


15 posted on 09/05/2010 1:35:32 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Indonesia is is**mic and m**l*ms have no soul. F you NPR.


16 posted on 09/05/2010 1:36:23 PM PDT by Frantzie (Imam Ob*m* & Democrats support the VICTORY MOSQUE & TV supports Imam)
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To: PROCON

Did he ever see snow fall?


17 posted on 09/05/2010 1:39:04 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (If Obama was the answer---that must have been one stupid question.)
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To: PROCON

...actually it makes sense that a glacier would melt more rapidly as it got smaller: volume/surface-area ratio is common in calculating/measuring heat-transfer.

Shouldn’t the question be more along the lines “does it come back at all?” I mean sometimes it shows in New Mexico or Arizona... but I have yet to see alarm raised because it melts.


18 posted on 09/05/2010 1:42:00 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Ditter
Which is fine .. you were observing the workings of nature in its majesty, not like the 'scientist' in this article who declares that 'the glacier was literally melting under my feet' or some such drama in order to advance a theory - Global Warming™ -
19 posted on 09/05/2010 1:42:14 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: PROCON

Who would guess that a glacier located in the tropics would have a limited lifespan?


20 posted on 09/05/2010 1:45:33 PM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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