Posted on 04/28/2009 11:16:36 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Nobel prize climate champion and former US vice president Al Gore called Tuesday for rapid action to prevent the potentially irreversible melting of the planet's ice, just months before a UN climate summit.
Speaking at the first conference devoted to melting ice, held in the Norwegian town of Tromsoe ahead of the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December, Gore warned that the situation was worse than the worst-case scenarios presented by experts a few years ago.
"This conference is a global wake-up call," Gore said, adding: "The scientific evidence for action in Copenhagen in December is continuing to build up week by week."
He explained why the melting ice posed such a threat to the planet.
"Ice is important through the ecological system of the Earth for many reasons, but one of them has to do with its reflexivity," he said.
Ice reflects 90 percent of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere. If the ice were to melt, the dark water would not reflect the heat but instead absorb it, thereby accentuating the effect of global warming.
"As it disappears we have to keep in mind that it can come back only if we act fairly quickly," said Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
He explained that "if we keep turning the temperature of the Earth up, then the heat will go to lower depths of the Arctic Ocean and it will be impossible for the ice to come back."
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Would that be the ice that was just measured to be 100% thicker?
Meanwhile — at the North Pole: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg
Knee-jerk action, reflexivity, what’s the difference???
Exactly. It is why the ice melted during what is commonly known as the “ice age”. It is a normal cycle of the planet that has now been politized for profit to scare and demonize anyone not smart enough to understand.
No such thing as “too much Jack”!
But I digress. Obviously there has been a surfeit of Albore the “manbearpig”.
Hey algore:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239721/posts
North Pole: ice 100% thicker than expected
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