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Global warming cracks ice sheets
Uzbekistan News.Net
Sunday 12th April, 2009
Scientists have once again been prodded into believing global warming is progressing faster than predicted.
Evidence of thinning ice from both poles this week has created fears that ice bridges and shelves will shatter.
The shrinkage in Arctic ice has been dramatic, and thin seasonal ice, which melts and refreezes each year, now makes up about 70 per cent of the Arctic winter ice.
The phenomenon has left far less of the older, thicker ice that is harder to melt.
The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed by more than three degrees Celsius in the past 50 years.
Apart from concerns about rapid melting accelerating the warming process, melting ice sheets raise sea levels dramatically.
A one per cent loss of the Antarctic land ice would raise levels by about 65cm.  Email this story to a friend
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Brad Arnold
04-13-09, 04:20 AM |
Global warming cracks ice sheets
A few years ago I would have been called a fool for suggesting the polar ice would melt this quick. Unfortunately, I am still ahead of the curve, and think that at the present trajectory the ocean will rise 3 to 7 meters by the end of the century. Hard to believe, huh?
Here is another gem that is unbelievable:
“Few seem to realise that the present IPCC models predict almost unanimously that by 2040 the average summer in Europe will be as hot as the summer of 2003 when over 30,000 died from heat. By then we may cool ourselves with air conditioning and learn to live in a climate no worse than that of Baghdad now. But without extensive irrigation the plants will die and both farming and natural ecosystems will be replaced by scrub and desert. What will there be to eat? The same dire changes will affect the rest of the world and I can envisage Americans migrating into Canada and the Chinese into Siberia but there may be little food for any of them." — Dr James Lovelock’s lecture to the Royal Society, 29 Oct. '07
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Billy Bean
04-13-09, 05:14 AM |
Antartic ice still growing
Meanwhile at the other poll Antarctic sea ice is growing. So one pole is losing and the other gaining.
Funny how you alarmist love to ignore ALL facts. GISS just came out and said 45% of the warming is due to aerosols. Didn’t you alarmists say the science was settled years ago. Looks like you guys blew it again. Science is still being done, and global temps have been on the decline over the past 11 years. Hmmm, maybe in 20 years the natural cycle will get it back on the uptake.
Link to Antarctic ice
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/iphone/iphone.anom.antarctic.html
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chugg
04-14-09, 03:28 AM |
Global warming cracks ice sheets ?<-LIES!
First of all,how do temperatures below a big fat ZERO melt ice?Also how come the sharp edges along the cracks?
Why do those who push the AWG agenda never mention the fact there WAS substantial under-sea volcanic and hydrothermal activity at BOTH Poles ,which far better explain’s why there’s some melting and cracing at the edges from higher Ocean temp’s in the Antarctic peninsular region.OR even one of the Sea level RISEorFALL’S over the last 3 years.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_noib_global_sm.jpg
Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud
http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Calen7/MornerEng.html
According to the University of Colorado sea level data there has been no sea level rise for the past three years,Just ups and downs.
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/current/sl_noib_ns_global.jpg
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Volcano, Not Global Warming Effects, May be Melting an Antarctic Glacier
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/AntarcticVolcanoes2.jpg
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Sure! Greenland is melting too?
WW2 Plane found Under 90 metres of Ice in Greenland
http://p38assn.org/glacier-girl.htm
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shawna
04-13-09, 07:38 PM |
What about the animals?
I am just wondering what officials are planning to do with all the animals that live on these ice caps. Not just the Polar bears but the Penguins, Seals, and Walrus'. I have heard that they will be put into zoos, but won’t it be hard for them to adapt?
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rafael correa
04-13-09, 07:54 PM |
Wrong and Inflammatory "Information"
A one percent loss of Antarctic land ice WILL NOT raise sea levels by 65 cm. It is unethical and irresponsible to try to influence events with outright lies.
R Correa
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mechmorph
04-19-09, 05:26 AM |
Pack of lies
There’s been no global warming in 10 years, the Antarctic Peninsula is only a small piece of the Antarctic continent on which the ice has been growing, and the melting of Arctic ice has zero effect on sea level because it’s a big ice cube, and the displacement balances out the melt. Also, CO2 is not the leading greenhouse gas, as we are often told — water vapor is, and it is responsible for about 98 percent of the greenhouse effect. Yet, none of the much-vaunted computer models account for water vapor. Since they only “model” 2 percent of the possible cause of atmospheric warming (or cooling), this means even the most accurate global warming model based on CO2 has a base margin of error of something like 4,500 percent, plus or minus. It gets even funnier when you discover that human activity is only responsible for less than 3 percent of the CO2 that gets pumped into the atmosphere every year. Then remember that all this fuss is over an alleged (and highly debatable) increase of about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past 100 years and a feared 1 or 2 degree rise in the next 100 years. Do the math. Humans MIGHT be responsible for a temperature increase of about six/10,000ths of a degree in the past century, and MIGHT cause 12/10,000ths of a degree rise in the next 100 years. For this, the lefties want us to spend trillions of dollars on programs and regulations that won’t do anything except further destroy the cleanest industrial country on Earth. Brilliant.
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