Current melting of Greenland's ice mimicks 1920s-1940s event

PhyOrg.com ^ | 2007-12-10 | Earle Holland

[boop]

"So it cooled from 1940's to the 1980's despite the massive build up of man made CO2?"

Yes. Even though the "reporter" thought they were helping the GW cause, they actually undermine it, don't they?

[danamco]

Greenland 's ice sheet contains at least 10 percent of the world's freshwater

How can that be???

Then we need it to be "shipped" into the Lake of Okeechobee, that is our major water supply in South Florida, which level is low because they let water from it by wrong calculation!!!

[Raycpa]

“I must have paged through more than a hundred such volumes to get the data we needed for this study,” Herrington said.

I always wondered where the former Florida chad counters would find a job.

[pyx]

Thanksgiving turned into a globalwarming war between myself and my doctor bro-in-law. I stated that all the floating ice masses on this planet melting would have no affect whatsoever on the ocean levels and he of course disputed my claim.

I then conducted the kindergarten level physics test of filling a glass of water to the brim with ice and measured the overflow of water as the ice melted. It didn't..............

How dare you clutter up and counter perfectly emotional arguments with lucid facts ! ;9

PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON THIS ===>URL. Its science, I tell ya ! Its science !

[Pikachu_Dad]

Water, water, water... I need fresh water...

Somebody get me a cup of North Pole Ice.

[muawiyah]

The local data is probably pretty good for the handful of weather stations they looked at. What we don't know is what the Global surface temperature is now, or what it was last year, or the year before, or the year before.

The system used to measure temperature kind of fell into some serious disrepair (check all the FreeRepublic stories over the last 6 months about weather stations ~ just incredible stuff).

I don't know whether to worry, or say, "Hey, another 70 year cycle, and what does that mean?"

[muawiyah]

Doggone, that happens most of the time, since meteorological winter starts before astronomical winter.

[muawiyah]

There are some serious cycles even during the period of maximum glaciation (during the current 2 million year long Ice Age).

While driving past my old neighborhood (which was recently destroyed by an expansion of I-70 and the consequental burying of an openly accessible Clovis hunting site) just the other day I realized there were "ripples" ranging from just South of there about a mile and a half to somewhere around Noblesville.

These "ripples" were low glacial moraines formed as the 2 mile high ice sheet that used to loom over Central Indiana retreated in fits and starts, that is, in "cycles".

If cycles existed during that sort of climate, why should today's far less robust climate be exempt?

[muawiyah]

The Antarctic ice comes in three varieties ~ that which is on ground above sea level. That which is floating on the sea. And, that which is so deep, heavy and massive that it would float on the sea but it's been pushed all the way to the bottom.

It's that third kind that represents the greater part of the Antarctic ice.

Since it's not currently "floating", if it melts it raises the ocean level worldwide. In fact, it can do the same trick if it's somehow launched into deeper water where it can float.

If you want a tabletop demo try this. Fill a glass with water. Freeze it. Fill another glass with water. Freeze it. Then, worry the ice out of the first glass (being careful not to break it) and place it on top of the second glass. Once all of it melts you will have a very wet table top.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

So Greenland warmed before it cooled, then it’s warming again? Shades of Kerry/flip-flopping! ;-)

[qam1]

Two researchers spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports, and reviewing 70-year-old maps and photos before making a surprising discovery. They found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland 's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades following an abrupt warming in the 1920s.

Problem, Greenland isn't melting it's gaining Ice

From the European Space Agency ERS altimeter survey shows growth of Greenland Ice Sheet interior

Greenland ice-sheet elevation change in cm/year (see colour scale) derived from 11 years of ERS-1/ERS-2 satellite altimeter data, 1992-2003, excluding some ice-sheet marginal areas (white). +5.4 cm/year, or ~5 cm/year when corrected for bedrock uplift.

[Lancey Howard]

“Global warming” hoax BUMP!

[freekitty]

So far he and the Clintons are at the top of my list.

[exDemMom]

Quick! Throw another virgin into the volcano to appease the volcano gods before it erupts!

Oh, nevermind. Global warming is going to require a larger sacrifice than a virgin.

[Thickman]

"Since it's not currently "floating", if it melts it raises the ocean level worldwide. In fact, it can do the same trick if it's somehow launched into deeper water where it can float." You are illustrating the absurd by being absurd, right?