Posted on 01/16/2008 2:39:12 PM PST by decimon
Greenland's ice sheet shrank more rapidly last summer than at any other time in the past 50 years, measurements have shown.
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"The question is: Can we reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in time to make enough of a difference to curb this decay?"
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However, its report acknowledged that temperatures in southern Greenland during the 1930s and 1940s were at least as warm as in recent years.
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ICE? MELTING IN THE SUMMER???? AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Stealing that for my new tagline LOL
As long as you give me credit. LOL! I’m selling those on cafepress.com. : )
Still too cold here in NY.
Done
Exactly, but somehow man is responsible for that.
Early morning on July 15, 1942, two squadrons of Lockheed P-38s escorting a Boeing B-17, were airborne on their way to Iceland. Hampered by bad weather and low on fuel, they were forced to land on the eastern coast of Greenland. After several days the pilots were rescued and planes were left to be recovered at a later date.
In the spring of 1992, a group of 40 people led by Middlesboro entrepreneur Roy Shoffner returned to Greenland and burrowed through 268 feet of ice to reach one of the Lockheed P-38s and brought it up piece by piece to the surface.
A decade later, on October 26th, 2002, after thousands of hours of work the P-38 they recovered, now dubbed "The Glacier Girl," took flight again.
268 feet of ice in 50 years seems like a good rate of accumulation to me.
Gosh, I wonder how Greenland got its name?
The ice on Greenland has ebbed and flowed for millenia. What a strange disease liberals have that states that the way things are NOW, at this insignificant point in time, must remain the same forever, or all will be lost. All species must remain the same, no species and become extinct. No change climate can occur. All must remain the same. How can a single scientist sign on to such a theory, when it flies in the face of endless evidence to the contrary over millions of years?
It's the Peorians. Every time a toilet is flushed in Peoria the magma dome rises in Greenland. The Peorian Flush will doom us all.
Ah, fresh real estate...
No information - of course - on the rest of the arctic. Or, the antarctic, for that matter. And while we’re at it...what is the “average” temp of the earth? Where is that taken? Nyquist sampling? What points? Error bars? Seems that the typical “warming” report is a nest of targets for even those with C’s in statistics. (Which excludes, of course, our political “class”.) And, as those of us with computers already know, those with adequate statistical backgrounds have pretty well humiliated those “experts”. Ah, C-average physics students. Where would they be without climate research? (Apologies to the talented ones out there. We know you are out there. And we know that you cannot speak too loudly...it’s a liberal background.....)
Sweet! I have property on a lake there that I’ve not seen in forever!
See, global warming climate change is happening.
Actually, conservatives sometimes say it was once “Greenland” but apparently it wasn’t in historical times. the Vikings named it Greenland to encourage people to settle there.
I have read that increased warming is allowing more farming there, but of course the article is deceptive because whatever the rate of summer melt, there is some offset during teh winter freeze.
They make it sound like an ice cube melting away on a hot car hood. Not.
Dibs on the 7 P-38’s when the ice melts off them!
And thank God for it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now we have more room to plant crops for BioFuels!!!!!!!!!!!
WooHoo!!!!!!!! The self balancing Earth.. Can’t beat it with a stick!
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