Ice Is Melting Everywhere

Environment News Service ^ | February 25, 2005 | Danielle Murray

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Boot Hill is the guy getting seriously at work , take a look at his imput data....

[usgator]

Is there some reason you can't park so that it faces the hole in the ozone layer

Of course!  (smacks self in forehead)  Just point it toward Antartica ... it's melting, so it's gotta be warmer!

Thanks!  This is gonna save me a lot of time.

[rock58seg]

No. I am truly interested in how one pole can receive more sunlight than the other.

Seeing as how the equinoxes wind up equally at the same latitudes from the equator, I have always thought the poles received the same amount of sunlight. That the earth wobbles a little is a given, but that it would tend to favor one pole or the other is not something I would tend to believe.

A non elliptical orbit should also tend to even out over time.

[UCANSEE2]

And I truly respect anyone who honestly is trying to learn something.

The Earth wobbles on it's axis, the Earth is more donut-shaped than round. The Earth's orbit is parabolic.

The Polar cap is larger at the south pole, smaller at the north.

The southern hemisphere is warmer than the northern.

Astronomers and Scientists have placed their equipment at the South Pole because it gives the longest, best view of the night sky.

Find out how long the night is at the north pole, vs. the south pole.

Other than that, what would be your explanation for the difference?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Has to do with the Earth's revolution and Sun angle. See here

Eventhough the sun is farther away in January than July, due to the eliptical orbit, the Northern Hemisphere recieves more direct sunlight during it's winter.

More here on all that.

[rock58seg]

So sorry! I have no explanations for it. While I concede there may be global warming/cooling, ( I just love the new fudge envirowhackos use now, "climate change") I don't think mankind is able to influence it much, one way or the other.

I am still waiting for an answer to a question I posed in astronomy class 30 years ago. According to Hubble's law the universe is expanding. say I am standing on a world in which two other worlds/stars, whatever, are expanding away from me at 100,000 miles per second in opposite directions, due to speed of light limitations they would never see each other. However the real kicker is that, they in some way are moving faster than the speed of light. It matters not that I am standing in the middle, because, perhaps one of the worlds is not moving at all.

[Grampa Dave]

I had an ice cube in my glass by my computer when I left my office at about 5:30 pm.

Now at 11:11 pm, it has melted.

Global warming in rampant in my office, and it's Bush's fault.

[Grampa Dave]

Man you are so hot this evening with the data, you are causing global warming.

[midnightson]

" all but 13 of the 2,000 glaciers in southeast Alaska are retreating"


And the reason it's not all of them is.......?

[Havoc]

And the reason it's not all of them is.......?

They haven't been told about the conspiracy plot yet?

[rock58seg]

Just saw this link on the other thread regarding global warming. fantastic sateite time lapse Years) of northpole ice movement.

http://www.nasa.gov/mpeg/103496main_sea_ice2004_320x240.mpeg

[Grampa Dave]

If this is the same Danielle Murray, she and her gay lover contributed to global warming this past year.

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/03849727.asp

Couples strolled through the line, hand in hand. Some indulged the spirited crowd by sharing passionate, wet kisses. Others held up their marriage-license applications triumphantly in the air. It felt like being a celebrity for a day, Danielle Murray admitted to me. She and her partner, Catherine Schaber, of Jamaica Plain, had waded through the throng, flushed and invigorated. The first hours of gay marriage in Massachusetts had far exceeded their expectations.

"I’m so excited, I’m shaking," said Murray.

"It’s amazing," Schaber agreed.

[A CA Guy]

The weather of the world is probably on a 10 thousand year cycle. To think humans are THAT influential seems rediculous.

[PeaceBeWithYou]

I found this that discribes the wobble that UCANSEE2 was explaining.

What turns ice ages on...and off

[FreedomCalls]

Are you saying the earth wobbles on its axis?

Yes it does. In a 26,000 year cycle.

Read this: http://www.crystalinks.com/precession.html

[rock58seg]

Thank you all for your help and explanations. It is now understandable to me.

[FreedomCalls]

Is it getting hot in here?

[TMSuchman]

I am here in South East Michigan & we still have 6 inches of white crap still here on the ground!

Global warming, what global warming, I don't see any syinking global warming!

[rock58seg]

had an ice cube in my glass by my computer when I left my office at about 5:30 pm. Now at 11:11 pm, it has melted. Global warming in rampant in my office, and it's Bush's fault.

Don't bring no stinkin icicle to a global warmin fight. LOL

[UCANSEE2]

In otherwords, you don't believe a word of it.