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Ice Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet
ICECAP.US ^ | January 17, 2008 | Icecap.us staff

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.”


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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agw; globalwarming; greenland; ice
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To: NavyCanDo
Penguins in Greenland? I suggest a little more time watching the Animal Planet.

Perhaps they are descendents of Mr. Popper's penguins.


61 posted on 01/17/2008 1:23:32 PM PST by r9etb
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To: NavyCanDo
Penguins in Greenland? I suggest a little more time watching the Animal Planet.

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. :=)

62 posted on 01/17/2008 1:30:54 PM PST by Bob
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To: HD1200

Damned Global warning!!!!! Can’t we do something to prevent all this ice from forming as Earth heats up? /sarc


63 posted on 01/17/2008 2:34:20 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: CedarDave
I have used -13 degrees as the figure for magnetic declination for my location. Since I have a satellite dish in my RV, this information is needed for setting the dish when travelling. I decided to check some more current info about the location of the magnetic North Pole.

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.

64 posted on 01/17/2008 3:23:06 PM PST by dbacks (Taglines for sale or rent.)
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To: CedarDave

Just last week they said the ice was melting like crazy from the volcanic magma. The press has the right Greenland?


65 posted on 01/17/2008 3:28:43 PM PST by chemicalman (Change change change change change change.....I'd make a good politician ;)
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To: CedarDave
"Ice Returns as Greenland Temps Plummet"


"NOOOO!"


66 posted on 01/17/2008 3:31:44 PM PST by Rb ver. 2.0 (Global warming is the new Marxism.)
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To: WL-law
I didn't even know there WERE Greenlanders

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.

67 posted on 01/17/2008 3:39:44 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Beowulf; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy
"Hot Air Cult"

~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~

68 posted on 01/17/2008 4:51:32 PM PST by steelyourfaith
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To: CedarDave
Gonna be interesting to see if the air temperature at Lambeau Field at kickoff will be positive or negative. Either way we will SEE lots of breathing from the players. The coldest ever was supposedly the Ice Bowl which reached a low of -28 air temp, I think. Green Bay could fall down to around -10 to -15 by the end of the game. Looks like the people who named Green Bay were probably the same ones who named Greenland.
69 posted on 01/17/2008 5:48:20 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: CedarDave
Gonna be interesting to see if the air temperature at Lambeau Field at kickoff will be positive or negative. Either way we will SEE lots of breathing from the players. The coldest ever was supposedly the Ice Bowl which reached a low of -28 air temp, I think. Green Bay could fall down to around -10 to -15 by the end of the game. Looks like the people who named Green Bay were probably the same ones who named Greenland.
70 posted on 01/17/2008 5:48:21 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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71 posted on 01/17/2008 6:12:20 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I resolve to remember to write "08" on my checks.)
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To: CedarDave
Did these rocket scientists ever stop to wonder WHY Greenland is called Greenland?
72 posted on 01/17/2008 6:19:45 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: CedarDave; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

THANKS, bfl


73 posted on 01/17/2008 6:25:16 PM PST by neverdem (Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
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To: CedarDave

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.


74 posted on 01/17/2008 9:19:14 PM PST by jmcenanly
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To: WL-law

Looks like there are about 56,000 people living in Greenland:

http://www.greenland-guide.gl/towns_regions.htm


75 posted on 01/17/2008 9:29:01 PM PST by FBD (My carbon footprint is bigger then yours)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

The penguins live in the Antarctic, so they will be fine ...


76 posted on 01/17/2008 9:30:46 PM PST by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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 ... :-)


77 posted on 01/17/2008 9:32:48 PM PST by Tarpon (Ignorance, the most expensive commodity produced by mankind.)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Do you know the REAL reason that no matter how hungry a polar bear is, he will never eat a penguin?


78 posted on 01/17/2008 9:33:35 PM PST by Nik Naym (If Republicans are your problem, Democrats aren't the answer!)
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To: CedarDave

Global COOLING PING!


79 posted on 01/17/2008 11:35:45 PM PST by WOSG (Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!)
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To: Nik Naym
Trayf?
80 posted on 01/18/2008 4:50:26 AM PST by ExGeeEye (NIE or no NIE, I've been waiting since 11/04/79 to do something about Iran.)
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