I know you concern about global warming is sincere and I appreciate the articles you post.
I want to make up my own mind about these issues so I looked at the researcher’s (Steffen) website for more information. He has lots of data on Greenland ice melt but nothing on the total ice volume. Surely he is collecting this information for all of Greenland —the posted article even mentions ice thickening in central Greenland. Why does he never give the total mass balance? Is it increasing or decreasing? Is he afraid his funding will go away if he states the facts? Or his he just dishonest?
The whole global warming movement has a stench to it because its proponents don’t want to deal with the whole truth. Articles like this make me more skeptical, not less.
"The average rate of loss of sea ice every summer year to year up to 2006 was equal to an area the size of West Virginia," or about 62,800 square kilometers (24,250 square miles), said Michael Steele, the senior oceanographer at the University of Washington in Seattle.
However the decrease in ice between 2006 and 2007 "was almost equivalent to the area of Alaska," or some 1.7 million kilometers (more than 663,000 square miles), Steele told AFP in a telephone interview.
"It was a huge retreat," said Steele, one of the researchers who discussed the subject at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, California.
[Excerpted: read more here]
As ice thins, so does Canada's polar bear population
The polar bear diverged from the brown bear roughly 200 thousand years ago. The oldest known polar bear fossil is less than 100 thousand years old. Fossils show that between 10 and 20 thousand years ago the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear.
However, more recent genetic studies have shown that some clades of Brown Bear are more closely related to polar bears than to other brown bears, meaning that the polar bear is not a true species according to some species concepts. In addition, polar bears can breed with brown bears to produce fertile grizzly–polar bear hybrids, indicating that they have only recently diverged and are not yet truly distinct species. But neither species can survive long in the other's niche, and with distinctly different morphology, metabolism, social and feeding behaviors, and other phenotypic characters, the two bears are generally classified as separate species.
Sounds to me like when the ice returns, so will the polar bears.
I’ll have my Greenland Melt with extra cheese, thank you.
Arctic dips as global waters rise ~ water level in the Artic decreasing...Global Cooling?
Should of known the High Priests of the Church of Global Warming would be rushing into print with yet another fraudulent hysteria filled story in a desperate attempt to refute this data.
Statistically, this report should be viewed as a reversion to the norm. The norm is established by Lief Erickerson and Eric the red who colonized this Greenland.
The short term view of disaster incorrectly assumes a non existant cold norm.
Ice is increasing at record pace at this time. When will these liars quit lying?!
LLS
ok, now go to this post,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927324/posts
and watch the youtube postings parts 1 through 4
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
etc Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
and tell me: the man is lying, more importantly,
PROVE HE IS LYING
because if he isn’t , we are headed for an ice age
that to me will be much worse than a ‘warm age’ (toast age?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939543/posts
Over 100 Prominent Scientists Warn UN Against ‘Futile’ Climate Control Efforts
Why do they think its called Greenland?
Call me when it’s warm enough to start vinyards in Greenland.....again...you know, like the last time the V-8 engines warmed up that island sufficient to produce a great wine.