The sea level has risen about 20cm in the last hundred years. So what? We adapted and we will continue to adapt.
Source: Global Warming Art Project
Posted on 12/14/2007 8:46:14 AM PST by cogitator
From an earlier post on this same subject I tried to convert the water lost by comparing the square area of D.C. which would have been covered by water 1/2 mile deep; worked out to something like the melt of 8 feet of snow from the entire surface of Greenland.
Does anyone know the annual snowfall totals for Greenland?
"The average rate of loss of sea ice every summer year to year up to 2006 was equal to an area the size of West Virginia," or about 62,800 square kilometers (24,250 square miles), said Michael Steele, the senior oceanographer at the University of Washington in Seattle.
However the decrease in ice between 2006 and 2007 "was almost equivalent to the area of Alaska," or some 1.7 million kilometers (more than 663,000 square miles), Steele told AFP in a telephone interview.
"It was a huge retreat," said Steele, one of the researchers who discussed the subject at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference in San Francisco, California.
[Excerpted: read more here]
As ice thins, so does Canada's polar bear population
The polar bear diverged from the brown bear roughly 200 thousand years ago. The oldest known polar bear fossil is less than 100 thousand years old. Fossils show that between 10 and 20 thousand years ago the polar bear's molar teeth changed significantly from those of the brown bear.
However, more recent genetic studies have shown that some clades of Brown Bear are more closely related to polar bears than to other brown bears, meaning that the polar bear is not a true species according to some species concepts. In addition, polar bears can breed with brown bears to produce fertile grizzly–polar bear hybrids, indicating that they have only recently diverged and are not yet truly distinct species. But neither species can survive long in the other's niche, and with distinctly different morphology, metabolism, social and feeding behaviors, and other phenotypic characters, the two bears are generally classified as separate species.
Sounds to me like when the ice returns, so will the polar bears.
Funny - good comeback
LOL!!!!
Carolyn
The sea level has risen about 20cm in the last hundred years. So what? We adapted and we will continue to adapt.
Source: Global Warming Art Project
talk about "Greenland Melt Accelerating"...
I’ll have my Greenland Melt with extra cheese, thank you.
About 90 more feet and I’ll have coastal property.
Should I buy a deep sea fishing boat now?
Arctic dips as global waters rise ~ water level in the Artic decreasing...Global Cooling?
Should of known the High Priests of the Church of Global Warming would be rushing into print with yet another fraudulent hysteria filled story in a desperate attempt to refute this data.
Statistically, this report should be viewed as a reversion to the norm. The norm is established by Lief Erickerson and Eric the red who colonized this Greenland.
The short term view of disaster incorrectly assumes a non existant cold norm.
Ice is increasing at record pace at this time. When will these liars quit lying?!
LLS
ok, now go to this post,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927324/posts
and watch the youtube postings parts 1 through 4
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
etc Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
and tell me: the man is lying, more importantly,
PROVE HE IS LYING
because if he isn’t , we are headed for an ice age
that to me will be much worse than a ‘warm age’ (toast age?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939543/posts
Over 100 Prominent Scientists Warn UN Against ‘Futile’ Climate Control Efforts
I am excited about this ice melt. We know Greenland used to be ice free and have vineyards. There is a chance some very good (and old) wine will be uncovered.
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Greenland has never been ice-free during the period of human habitation. In fact, its ice sheet is tens of thousands of years old.
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And I’m not “really” excited about the ice melt nor do I drink wine. My apologies for not being more clear in my sarcasm.
Carolyn
Why do they think its called Greenland?
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