Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/05/2008 12:19:05 PM PDT by sionnsar
For years, climate alarmists in the media have loved showing video footage of Greenland glaciers slipping into the ocean in order to evoke feelings of global warming gloom and doom in the citizenry.
On Friday, the journal Science is publishing a seventeen year study of Greenland's ice sheet that flatly contradicts all such hysterical reports and claims.
In fact, the paper concludes that such melting is a normal summertime event, and that when looked at over a longer period of time, there has been little change in the ice sheets in this region, and even possibly a slowing in glacial movement.
Imagine that.
Somewhat surprisingly, the New York Times' Andrew C. Revkin appears to be the first to report some of the findings (emphasis added):
[A] new Dutch study of 17 years of satellite measurements of ice movement in western Greenland concludes that the speedup of the ice is a transient summertime phenomenon, with the overall yearly movement of the grinding glaciers not changing, and actually dropping slightly in some places, when measured over longer time spans.If the findings in this study prove accurate, one of the cornerstones of the global warming myth will have been completely debunked.The work, the authors and other experts caution, does not mean that more widespread surface melting could not eventually destabilize vast areas of the world’s second-largest ice storehouse. But for the moment, the study, which is being published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science, throws into question the notion that abrupt ice losses in Greenland are nigh.
“The positive-feedback mechanism between melt rate and ice velocity appears to be a seasonal process that may have only a limited effect on the response of the ice sheet to climate warming over the next decades,” said the paper.
As such, I'm sure this will be headline and front-page news all weekend long once this paper is officially published. And, I imagine climate alarmists like Nobel Laureate Al Gore and NASA's James Hansen will not only be asked to comment about these new revelations, but will also be available for interviews with curious media members in the days ahead.
As this will likely not be the case, readers should keep an eye on NewsBusters for more details as they come available.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
Ice melts in the summer? Wow.
Ain’t Science wunnerful?
it is amazing how that climate thing works!
Ooops...notify Nancy Pelosi....she sees signs of global warming everywhere...
How about the ice free North Pole?
Rut Roh, what will James Hansen and ManBearPig point to in order to create panic?
Santa is deeply saddened.
Oh wait! There’s still lots of ice there!
Yea, but we all know summers are warmer BECAUSE of the global warming caused by everyone driving around during their summer vacations. The only real solution is MORE TAXES PLEASE!
All ten who are logged on the Internet this weekend will be greatly excited.
Yes, real science is wonderful.
B,B,But...It was on PBS!
In other breaking news:
1. Water freezes into ice in the winter.
2. Many places on Earth have experienced periods of "summer" and "winter" even before Bush was elected president or the invention of the SUV.
3. These periods of "summer" and "winter" may be affected by the Earth's natural rotation and something called "the sun."
4. Algore is an idiot.
CAP Carbon dioxide.
CAP fireworks!
TAX everything!
Send ManBearPig into exile!!
Doesn’t this study’s time period mesh quite nicely with our current ‘recess’ in the overall warming just lurking in the background?
We can’t afford to be suckered into this lull in the inevitable catastrophe that awaits...
As long as CO2 levels keep climbing annualy the eventual collapse of our environment as we know it becomes more certain with each milligram emitted.
LOL
Surely you’re not suggesting that this report was released this 4th of July weekend just to get lost in the ‘noise?’
This still won’t stop the UN & governments from implementing draconian measures to halt GW. Its just too big a potential source of tax revenue. Already the term in vogue is “climate change”, not global warming. This is perfect because the climate is always changing in one way or another.
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