Posted on 06/10/2019 4:03:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
pshew! just in time!
WASHINGTON — A major Greenland glacier that was one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on Earth is growing again, a new NASA study finds.
The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually.
But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience. Study authors and outside scientists think this is temporary.
“That was kind of a surprise. We kind of got used to a runaway system,” said Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland ice and climate scientist Jason Box.
“The good news is that it’s a reminder that it’s not necessarily going that fast. But it is going.”
Box, who wasn’t part of the study, said Jakobshavn is “arguably the most important Greenland glacier because it discharges the most ice in the northern hemisphere. For all of Greenland, it is king.”
About three days ago, it got hot for the first time here in Southern California. We had a couple of days in the 80s earlier this year, but now it’s 90+ and feeling like summer.
I honestly have not experienced a more cold and prolonged winter in 50 years here in Southern California.
It has been 5 to 15 degrees colder than usual for about 95-97.5% of the time so far this year.
Today is June 10th, and it wasn’t warm all year until three days ago.
The nights have been in the very high 30s or low 40s, or 50s all year so far.
As for sunshine, we’ve had very little of that in the Glendale, Pasadena area.
I have tried to ride my eBike around, longer distances, and the forecast has had a 10-80% chance of rain for day after day after day.
All I’m saying, is that this global warming sure felt like global cooling this year.
I checked the sea levels since the temperature was so far under normal for five months. Didn’t see the sea level go down. Just sayin...
This has gone well past ridiculous. B thank goodness someone is calling them out. I wonder if Trump will pick up on this.
Trump is even Making Glaciers Great Again! Hilarious.
How much money are these Climate Terrorists getting Paid by George SoreA$$, to lie about Gorebull warming?
“You don't capitulate to young voters because they have been brainwashed into believing that mankind is driving a climate 'crisis,'” said Marc Morano. “You lead and reveal to them that what they think they know just ain't so.”
Thanks to Hot Hunt and others for the above realities versus the end of humans due to Gorebull Warming BS Predictions!
Forecast for the next three days up here in the PNW: 90’s to possibly over 100 degrees in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Here on the Coast, it might possibly hit 80, so we’ll be inundated with Portlanders escaping the heat. Can’t say I blame them.
The "Grim Realities" of Global COOLING
"The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."
Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
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A bit chilly up here too though the blue sky and sun are wonderful.
We also had a terribly cold and long winter. The ice age is coming.
The ENTIRE GOAL of the ENVIRONUT movement has ZERO to do with “saving the planet.” The TRUE ENDGAME here is the destruction or crippling of capitalism.
We WERE FINE before the EPA was created and all the environmental laws were passed. All of the regulations have cost TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and have accomplished nothing that helps anyone except in the fevered imaginations of unstable liberal minds.
-There was no reason to ban DDT.
-There was no reason to remove leas from gasoline and paint.
-There was no reason to wage war on coal.
-There was no reason to tell companies what they can and cannot dump on their own properties.
-There was no reason to regulate smokestacks.
Does ANYBODY REALLY BELIEVE we’re better off now? We could breathe and drink the water before the EPA. But liberal scientists and academics convinced everyone that “pollution” — most of which is NOT MAN MADE — must be ended.
Still have a few a few glaciers here in the High Sierra of California. I can see one from my front yard.
My one hope (if warming is true and the glaciers will recede): a receding European or Asian glacier will pull back to reveal the fresh-frozen body of a Neanderthal or a Denisovan. We’ve recovered fresh-frozen mammoths, and the Neanderthals hunted mammoths. It could happen.
“Trump is even Making Glaciers Great Again! Hilarious.”
MAKE AMERICA GLACIATE AGAIN!!
Let’s not discount all the other predictions from the democrat neo-Nazis: that NYC would be under water, that white people would be a minority and that the rainforests would vanish.
If you want to be treated to a pack of ridiculous lies, listen to any democrat and their useful idiots.
Yeah, I agree.
I remember all those pronouncements. LOL!
When I was in grade school all we heard is “The ice age is coming!” All through High School hung out at the beach on the summer weekends and figured out then this stuff was garbage.
Since then I’ve come across some geology essays that discuss river beds in the Sahara and rocks formed in the far North found near the equator that can only be pushed by ice. All before human’s existed.
Like to present this info to millennial believers and watch the confused look on their face!
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