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Study finds puzzle in Greenland glacier melt
Boston Globe ^ | February 9, 2007 | Bloomberg

Posted on 02/09/2007 12:14:41 PM PST by presidio9

The melting of Greenland's glaciers can slow as rapidly as it can accelerate, making the ice's effect on rising sea levels tough to forecast, a study says.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: backoffimascientist; bushliedpenguinsdied; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarmingtheory; junkscience; makefactsfittheory; pressembargo; whateverwesayitmeans
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1 posted on 02/09/2007 12:14:42 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Keep the freezer door closed...


2 posted on 02/09/2007 12:16:19 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: presidio9

Obviously, this study was bought and paid for by the BUSH Administration </Al Gore>


3 posted on 02/09/2007 12:17:43 PM PST by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: presidio9
making the ice's effect on rising sea levels tough to forecast

Kind of like is it going to rain this weekend?

You yoyos miss that better than half the time, too.

4 posted on 02/09/2007 12:17:56 PM PST by grobdriver (Let the embeds check the bodies!)
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To: presidio9

They'll be even more confused when it starts to grow again.


5 posted on 02/09/2007 12:18:45 PM PST by Greenpees (Coulda Shoulda Woulda)
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To: presidio9
Because...NATURE IS BASED ON MORE FACTORS THEN WE CAN PUT INTO A SIMPLE FORMULA DAMMIT!

Sorry to shout. I'm going to go have a lie down.

6 posted on 02/09/2007 12:18:46 PM PST by 50sDad (Cultural Diversity means never having to say "I don't fit in.")
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To: presidio9

If the marching penguins aren't gripping, then we shouldn't either.


7 posted on 02/09/2007 12:19:09 PM PST by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: presidio9

Another Inconvienent Fact.


8 posted on 02/09/2007 12:19:30 PM PST by AU72
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To: Yo-Yo
Well, that's sure an Inconvenient Fact for the GW hucksters.
9 posted on 02/09/2007 12:19:36 PM PST by Ditto
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To: presidio9
THIS is weird.
10 posted on 02/09/2007 12:20:05 PM PST by isthisnickcool (I own your children! ---RICK PERRY)
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To: presidio9

The first two stages in learning are 1) unconscious incompetence (not knowing what we don't know), and 2) conscious incompetence (knowing what we don't know). The global warming cult hasn't even reached the second stage of learning yet.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 12:20:29 PM PST by My2Cents ("I support the right-ward most candidate who has a legitimate chance to win." -- W.F. Buckley)
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To: isthisnickcool

That is weird. What is that? Water freezing as soon as it hits land?


12 posted on 02/09/2007 12:22:41 PM PST by My2Cents ("I support the right-ward most candidate who has a legitimate chance to win." -- W.F. Buckley)
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To: My2Cents; isthisnickcool

And why is that hosehead at the end walking around in shorts?


13 posted on 02/09/2007 12:24:04 PM PST by presidio9 (There is something wonderful about a country that produces a brave and humble man like Wesley Autrey)
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To: Greenpees
Just like in the movie, March of the Penguins.
14 posted on 02/09/2007 12:24:07 PM PST by sportutegrl (This thread is useless without pix.)
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To: My2Cents

It's called an ice shove. Wind and tide push the ice onto land.


15 posted on 02/09/2007 12:28:59 PM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors." GOHUNTER08!)
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To: sportutegrl
Just like in the movie, March of the Penguins.

Except this is February.

16 posted on 02/09/2007 12:29:24 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

I always get Artic and Antartic confused.


17 posted on 02/09/2007 12:31:38 PM PST by sportutegrl (This thread is useless without pix.)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Don't see that much in California.


18 posted on 02/09/2007 12:34:41 PM PST by My2Cents ("I support the right-ward most candidate who has a legitimate chance to win." -- W.F. Buckley)
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To: My2Cents

Who cares about incremental ice melt on Greenland. I won't be satisfied until it all melts and Greenland becomes "green" again. Then we will know that the climate has come full circle.


19 posted on 02/09/2007 12:36:46 PM PST by CobraJet
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To: presidio9

Study summary below says some interesting think about sea levels:

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/


20 posted on 02/09/2007 12:37:22 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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