New climate report too rosy, experts say (dire "Global Warming" predictions may be "sugarcoated")

Associated Press ^ | 01/29/07 | SETH BORENSTEIN

[Uncle Miltie]

Gonna overplay their hand.

[dirtboy]

The melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are a fairly recent development

Except that other parts of Antarctica are accumulating MORE ice.

[Calpernia]

Of course the report is rosy! They already SOLVED global warming! :)

[Tanniker Smith]

So the sugarcoated version is: "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!"

And the plain and straight version would be . . . ?

[dforest]

The more they do their hand wringing, the more dire the problem, the less I am caring. Shame they don't put all this energy into predicting our future if the worlds tyrants aren't stopped.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Well, we'd all just better kill ourselves right now, then. Global Warming advocates first, though. It's only fair. :)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE...TOMORROW!!!!!!!"

[Uncle Miltie]

Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise

Curt H. Davis,1* Yonghong Li,1 Joseph R. McConnell,2 Markus M. Frey,3 Edward Hanna4

Satellite radar altimetry measurements indicate that the East Antarctic ice-sheet interior north of 81.6°S increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003. Comparisons with contemporaneous meteorological model snowfall estimates suggest that the gain in mass was associated with increased precipitation. A gain of this magnitude is enough to slow sea-level rise by 0.12 ± 0.02 millimeters per year.

1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

2 Desert Research Institute, University and Community College System of Nevada, Reno, NV 89512, USA.

3 Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

4 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: davisch@missouri.edu

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/308/5730/1898

[agere_contra]

In a way, it is one of the strengths of the IPCC to be very conservative and cautious and not overstate any climate change risk

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Man, and I thought Germans didn't do comedy.

The IPCC wouldn't freaking EXIST if it didn't spend all its time creating fear and terror with its fake hockey-stick graph - the one that fails to show the Medieval Warm period and the Mini Ice Age. The IPCC knows nothing about climate change - and everything about staying in business.

[Dallas59]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Frank_Discussion]

So, the recent lies weren't big enough, so lie real, REAL big hoping to fall back on the lesser lies? Pathetic. This is what passes for science in the 21st century?

[Calpernia]

The real reason for pushing Global Warming Hysteria.

“would cost the average American family more than $2,700 a year while having no measurable impact on global temperature.”

[tearlenb]

But many fear it will mean the world's coastlines are swamped much earlier than most predict.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when you have a frozen glass of water, and then you let it thaw, doesn't the water level go down? Hence why you should never freeze a completely full bottle of water...
So why would melting ice raise the sea level?

[samtheman]

The melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are a fairly recent development

Except that other parts of Antarctica are accumulating MORE ice.

Everything I've read points to thicker ice in Antartica, especially the mass at the center, that is growing in height, weight and mass.

[oyez]

Sugar coat? That's putting it nicely.

[SouthTexas]

What don't they comprehend about :

Greenland.

[cripplecreek]

I walked out on the middle of the lake this morning but it isn't because I'm holy. It's because there is 6 to 8 inches of rock hard globull warming covering it.

[r9etb]

I just got a batch of hyperventilating "end global warming" e-mails from my loony liberal cousins. One of them says she's only gonna fill the tank of her huge SUV only twice per month ... fat chance, as her kids are all very active in sports. No word on whether her husband will comply. Or whether they'll refuse to use their speedboat this summer.

[agere_contra]

It's because there is 6 to 8 inches of rock hard global warming covering it.

LOL