NASA satellite image of Greenland. You clearly see the ice cap covering almost entire Greenland even in this non-winter photo. Only in summer are the coastal areas free of snow. On the far left you can see Baffin Island.
Posted on 01/17/2008 8:16:09 AM PST by CedarDave
On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade. “The ice is up to 50cm thick,” said Henrik Matthiesen, an employee at Denmark’s Meteorological Institute who has also sailed the Greenlandic coastline for the Royal Arctic Line. ‘We’ve had loads of northerly winds since Christmas which has made the area miserably cold.’ Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.
Temperatures plunged to -25C earlier this month, clogging the bay with ice and making shipping impossible for small crafts, according to Anthon Frederiksen, the mayor of the town of Ilulissat, where Disko Bay is located. The mayor cautioned against thinking that the freezing temperature indicated that global warming claims were overblown. He noted that a nearby glacier had retracted more in the past two decades than in recorded history. But he noted “‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,” said Frederiksen. “Temperatures change at regular intervals.”
I just get a Google page up and type in "-25 centigrade in fahrenheit" Oncet upon a time I could convert it in my head... :-(
25C is higher than 13F.
Of course, because no matter what the climate does, we can always say after the fact that it was predicted by global warming.
“Oh what a dark and dreary day for the religion of global worming.”
think so? That’s why they now call it “global climate change”.
Yep, back East we used to call it "the weather", and we were able to recall years where it snowed a lot, years where it hardly snowed at all, years where it was really cold on the first day of school, years where it wasn't, and thought it was normal.
Yep. The baseline for Centigrade is the freezing temperature of water. The baseline for Fahrenheit is arbitrary. The actual conversion is C = (9/5 F + 32). It’s that “+32” that’ll getcha.
The new ice age could bring our civilization to an end as everyone tries to crowd into the equatorial regions.
The civilization that existed before the last ice age hasn’t left us anything but cave drawings, and of course, ourselves.
Hey - At one time it was called GREENland for a reason...
Are you really, really, really sure that this is correct?
Let's try instead: F = (9/5 C +32).
If we plug in C=0, we get F=32.
If we plug in C=100, we get F=9(100)/5 +32 = 180 + 32 = 212.
My version works pretty good.
“Well, actually, the increasing cold is caused by Global Warming. Global Warming created the Ice Age” - Al Gore Janaury 1, 2009 (sarcasm.)
I did not mean to suggest otherwise, but I am fully expecting to see the Fox News Breaking News banner:
Penguins in Greenland threatened!
That’s what that retarded movie with Dennis Quaid said. Global warming will cause a global ice age. Idiots.
To get the Danes to emigrate and colonize the island, with the opposite pitch used
for Iceland, as well as Cockroach and Mosquito islands in the British Caribbean.
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Dang, my apologies to the good folks in Packer. To help them out I will take the long way home from work tonight, burn a little more carbon than usual and maybe if every one else reading this can do the same we can get temps back up to a balmy 11 degrees.
“OMG - the penguins are going to freeze! Somebody do something!”
Penguins in Greenland? I suggest a little more time watching the Animal Planet.
My father was stationed in Greenland during WWII, he said that it was just a miserable place. They were housed in a quonset hut that was virtually an igloo. Being stationed in Greenland was great compared to being on the front lines, however.
Yes, and they’re progressives, not liberals. Don’t forget.
No it’s too late. They have all frozen to death. The Greenland penguin is extinct. :(
American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third
sarcasm
A form of irony in which apparent praise conceals another, scornful meaning. For example, a sarcastic remark directed at a person who consistently arrives fifteen minutes late for appointments might be, “Oh, you’ve arrived exactly on time!”
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