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.”
Perhaps they are descendents of Mr. Popper's penguins.
What's wrong with penguins in Greenland? You see them getting along just fine with the, presumably vegetarian, polar bears in Coke commercials all the time. :=)
Damned Global warning!!!!! Can’t we do something to prevent all this ice from forming as Earth heats up? /sarc
Well, it seems the mag north has been busily hustling west over the last few years. Some time back, it was ensconced over NE Canadian Arctic but has recently moved west by about 4 degrees and north by almost a degree.
What does this mean?
Well, the magnetic pole is caused by a mass of magma (molten metal) near the surface of the earth and having a magnetic field.
Since the magma is near the surface, could this molten metal (read: hotter’n hell) also heat the earth in the north lands? I mean, if it is massive enough to alter the magnetic characteristics of the earth, couldn’t it also effect climate?
I just wonder if the algore trolls consider this factor in their analysis.
Just last week they said the ice was melting like crazy from the volcanic magma. The press has the right Greenland?
"NOOOO!"
There were eskimo type people there even when the Vikings landed and colonized the southern part of the island. The Norsemen didn't learn much from the natives though, and when the climate went cold again they had to leave in order to survive.
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I’m still thawing out from my commute home. We had what is called a ‘wintry mix’, which is a euphemism for a mixture of every form of frozen or freezing precipitation known to man.
Looks like there are about 56,000 people living in Greenland:
http://www.greenland-guide.gl/towns_regions.htm
The penguins live in the Antarctic, so they will be fine ...
How would you have liked to be this guy ...
“Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F.” — Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University in Time Magazine’s June 24th, 1975 article “Another Ice Age?”
Might have been just slightly ahead of his time ... :-)
Do you know the REAL reason that no matter how hungry a polar bear is, he will never eat a penguin?
Global COOLING PING!
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