Posted on 10/30/2007 12:27:54 PM PDT by Kimmers
POGW Ping.
Pelosi is not falling victim to anything...she supports GW for the Carbon Tax it might bring. Fact: "Greenland's total ice volume is 680,000 cubic miles, and it is losing four ten–thousandths of its ice per year. Do the math. That works out to 0.4 percent of its total mass per century". Pelosi doesn't want to see facts............
My Greenland story on my FR profile. Click my name below.
There is a grave, and unscientific fiction/myth about ice/glacier “melts” in the northern latitudes - an assumption that it is 100% “melting” due to warmer water that is taking place and no suggestion that evaporation is even involved.
But, as this great true science article suggests, that in as much there was once a greater degree of “melting” that had taken place over the northern latitudes and no records of huge corresponding rising sea levels at that time, evaporation into the atmosphere appears to have taken the largest measure of the lost ice.
That evaporation became clouds, which in some measure became rain and apparently a very large part of it in the past became our well known land-locked large fresh water lakes (one in Irkutsk is more than a mile deep) as well as filling many underground acquifiers. The assumption that all rain goes to the sea is also not scientific.
Therefore, there is no way to calculate the super-dynamic and infinitely variable way in which earth’s ecosystem will absorb “melting polar ice” and no way at all to translate any amount of that melting to a particular and specific affect on sea levels. There is no formula or algorithm that contains any scientific facts or truth to it for such a calculation. You could just as well use a weegee board.
The arrogance of man has created the religion of “man-made” global warming and all it’s offshoots of scientific myth.
It sort of matters how this ice is being "shedded." If chunks of it are falling off into the ocean and becoming icebergs it actually means there must be more ice accumulating and forcing the old ice to the periperphery. This is harldy an indication of "warming." The alternative would be that the ice is melting and water is dribbling off into the oceans though it would be strange to refer to this as "shedding."
ML/NJ
Doink.
Major points to consider. Do we know the earth’s capacity to take up waters from the “big melt” ? Obviously not.
I read your entire profile and I am waiting for the book so I can read more.....you kept me laughing, thank you
Mother Nature will take care of the excess water. She will simply grow more sponges in the ocean.
.....Bob
The reason the northern lands shed icebergs is pressure from above the ice pack flow caused by HIGH LEVELS OF NEW SNOW PACK. This pack pushes the ice flows down where they just naturally break/fall off.
During a recent Alaska trip, Natl Forest/Natl Park rangers explained this situation. In all cases, they poo-pooed the notion of ‘abnormal’ warming.
Yes, they explained, icebergs were breaking off farther up the valleys but that was because the forces from above were causing the breaks.
Thank you .....Bob
Re: growing more sponges in the ocean.
The human race, meanwhile, is trying to produce more sponges in Washington, DC.
Remember, Brewster’s Millions? One of the ideas he blew money on was to float large chunks Greenland’s Ice to Africa to be bottled for drinking water. Why not bottle it up there and ship it?
The stories on your profile page had me ROTFLOL.
Look, Al Gore’s an idiot, but he stumbled on to this one. Put it into the “even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile” category and move on. Anthropogenic global warming is probably real—and the results could be mind-numbing. Of course the melting starts slowly, but its not going to be linear. Come on, this whole denial thing, just because the D’s claimed it first, is ridiculous. God Bless Newt, Crist, and Arnold for putting humanity before politics.
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