SAN FRANCISCO—Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in....
It's Darn Hot in here!!
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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How rapidly did it shrink in the summer 51 years ago? 60 years ago? 70 years ago?
News media wants you to believe....
*Economic crises in America
*Mystery diseases and illness spreading....
*Global environmental catastrophes.....
It must be an election year and they want the democrats to win.
I for one welcome global warming, no matter what the cause. Historically, warm periods in our history have been times of prosperity with an abundance of food and a better life style. Only a nutbar liberal enviro-nazi would see anything different.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I think a couple of degrees here and there could be very exploitable in a mighty good way. More food for the nutballs to turn into fuel for their ecopanzers.
WE’RE DOMED!!
That's like...tectonic, man.
The perimeter and ocean-borne ice is shrinking in acreage but the ice in the main body of Greenland is getting thicker.
This is why the world socialist movement is chaning the name of the groups and committees from Global Warming to Global Climate Change. They want to tax you and control you no matter what it does.
No SHEET!?!
I’m going to take advantage of this. I’m looking into opening a John Deere dealership in Greenland. There will be lots of land to farm one of these days...
That may be the case. We can descend into a total Ice Age and lose the Greenland icecap at the same time.
Of course the implication is that man made emissions are causing the meltdown, but that is nonsense. The melting of the ice has nothing to do with anything mankind has done, but is caused by nature. It could be global warming because the Sun is putting out more energy or some other Sun related factor. It could be heat from the earth's core. It could be a change in ocean currents relating to El Niño, or some other natural change in weather.
In January it ain’t.
First time I’ve seen melting ice referred to as decaying. I guess they think it has more impact. When it starts freezing again some day they will have to refer to it as undecaying or unmelting.
SAN FRANCISCO—Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in....
It's Darn Hot in here!!
But it would stand to reason, that hot magma below the surface might have something to so with melting ice. I know, I know, its a wacky idea, along the same lines as the Sun heating the planet.
I guess I haven't drank enough of Algore's Kool-Aid.
Oh My God, I thought that when I lived in Champaign/Urbana that that was MY little secret. I used to tell my kids. Flush twice, it’s a long way to Hammond, or Blue Island, or Cairo, or whereever. Now that I live in Kansas City, high on the north side, I tell myself to flush twice, it’s a long way to City Hall. But Hell, with the low flush toilets in this new place I live, you HAVE to flush twice just to get it to the street out front!
Dont measure 46 years or the data fails
More important: is the green in Iceland freezing?
The Vikings settled Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were as high or higher than today.
While hardly tropical, it was greener than it is now.
Ok, I’ll walk to work tomorrow. Is everyone happy now?
Didn’t think so.
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