ICE? MELTING IN THE SUMMER???? AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
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?
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!
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!
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.
WE’RE DOMED!!
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.
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.
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!!
More important: is the green in Iceland freezing?