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To: Starman417
No doubt there's a report on the glaciers that says they're all disappearing.

Watch for this sort of thing closely. New Zealand has mountains with glaciers. If there's a change in the relatively local climate that brings in cold, dry air, the glaciers will tend to disappear due to the loss of additional snowfall. If the weather were getting warmer, there'd be more snowfall at the higher elevations (where it's always colder than at sea level), and the glaciers would increase in size.

Colder, dryer air also brings with it dramatic downpours, but only at the margins of the weather systems. The result is reduced rainfall and desertification. Warmer, wetter air, always means more rain over a broad area.

In some parts of the world surface evaporation provides moisture to the part of mountains lying above the normal cloud cover. Kilamanjaro is such a mountain and its glaciers depend on moisture laden winds blowing up from the plains below. The glaciers there have been disappearing due to a loss of moisture on the plains, and that has been brought about by cool, dry air. If Kenya had more warm, moist air, there'd be plenty of water to keep the glaciers going.

In fact, all over the world wherever mountain glaciers are disappearing it's not because they are "melting". The local temperatures in the vicinity of those glaciers continues to be below freezing most of the year.

What's missing are warm, moist winds. What they've got are cool, dry winds.

The Earth is obviously moving into the next cycle of its normal Glacial condition.

The Global Warming crowd avoid dealing with the question of the settled science regarding the relative effects of cool, dry and warm, moist winds over large areas.

It's possible they are not sufficiently trained in their field to comprehend the water cycle.

3 posted on 11/26/2009 2:19:26 PM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: muawiyah
> No doubt there's a report on the glaciers that says they're all disappearing.

Ask and ye shall receive:

NZ glaciers still shrinking — NIWA

(Full disclosure: I am a Kiwi and NIWA has no credibility with me — DHTH)

8 posted on 11/26/2009 3:07:55 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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