Two degree rise could spark Greenland ice sheet meltdown: WWF
November 27, 2008
Graphic on a WWF study on the meltdown of Arctic ice. The WWF has warned that a less than two degree Celsius rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice.
A less than two degree Celsius rise in global temperatures might be sufficient to spark a meltdown of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Arctic sea ice, the WWF warned in a new study released Thursday.
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Who is Kim Carstensen? Is he/she a scientist, a lawyer or some kind of PR person? Another leader of the World Wildlife Fund said this:
"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund
Are these are the type of people we want to entrust with our childrens' futures?
Here is a comparison of Arctic Sea ice levels from the beginning of satellite records until today:
http://igloo.atmo...sh?fm=11&fd=26&fy=1979&sm=11&sd=26&sy=2008
Maybe I'm dense but I don't see the huge problem I keep hearing about. Also why has the mainstream media and physorg not covered this story?
http://www.news.c...,00.html
Radical solutions might be necessary. Orbiting sunshades. Maybe there's some way of covering the Greenland ice sheets to keep them cold. Since most of the ice that can raise sea levels is on one island, it might be possible to cool all of it. Set up dimethyl sulfoxide sprayers on Greenland to shield the ice from sunlight!!!
Give CO2 credits to the greenlanders to do that.
DMS is naturally produced by phytoplankton and it causes a haze to float over the ocean shading it from sunlight and reducing its temperature. Land plants that release DMS can be genetically engineered to make more DMS. Remember, you heard it here first!!!!!
It is drivel like this that smothers science!
Perhaps if you pray hard enough to your lord and savior, big oil, your prayers will be answered.
No, you denialists do not KNOW that global warming is a scam. You have RELIGIOUS FAITH that it is a scam, because there is no evidence, at all, that such a scam really exists, and there is no good reason, at all, to believe that such a scam really exists.
I wonder what brought us out of the last ice age??
I wonder if the earth goes in cycles naturally??
I hope you were joking.
If you were serious, you are the example of what is wrong with this world today.
The problem is not winter ice cover:
Look here at the ice cover in the end of the summer.
The problem is a 'little' more visible here.
Selecting data that fits your own theories is not the proper way to discuss these kinds of things.
http://igloo.atmo...sh?fm=09&fd=26&fy=1979&sm=09&sd=26&sy=2008
Can you still say:" I don't see the huge problem I keep hearing about."
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There's the problem. It's a "little" more visible here, but if you look at human records from the industrial revolution until now, it's not visible at all.
Without a proper frame of reference all data is cherry picked.
The problem is not winter ice cover:
Look here at the ice cover in the end of the summer.
Selecting data that fits your own theories is not the proper way to discuss these kinds of things."
Sure last summer did have less ice in the Arctic, and the Polar Bears ate well. Many seals were slaughtered. Still the total sea ice of the Earth is not at low levels. The Anomaly graph puts things in better perspective. Look at this anomaly graph:
http://arctic.atm...rend.jpg
I think it illustrates the cyclical rise and fall of sea ice. It is funny that every summer, everyone is worried about the sea ice in the Arctic, and every winter we see the media scares about ice melting in the Antarctic. I repeat, this is a non-problem.
Looking at interglacial trends, this puts us right about when the next Ice Age should start. And we'd still be some 8-10 degrees below historic mean of interglacial maximums.
Further, the interior of Greenlands ice sheet is thickening.
http://www.univer...growing/
As this thickening continues, the ice will push outwards. Like's it's been doing since the glacier formed.
Same for Antarctica.
Physorg needs to stop editorializing and stick to real science.
I get enough of this political nonsense in the main stream media-I'd like to just get scientific *facts* here, please.
It's because ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, and glaciers are linked to precipitation, not to temperature. Known science that's overlooked by the Church of AGW.
Try:
http://igloo.atmo...sh?fm=09&fd=26&fy=1979&sm=11&sd=26&sy=2008
Hey! That's my line!
SPAM ALERT
It's not global warming any more. It's "Climate Change".
And the difference between now and before is that we are here and can measure it.
Prepare to be assimilated by the BOG. Resistance to Obamination is futile. BOG Brother is watching.
Isn't it insane how all of a sudden, in a matter of like 5 years, a guy goes from being a nobody to being elected president, and suddenly all the liberal people are practically worshipping the guy like he's the messiah or something?
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If global warming alarmists really want to do something "green", they can lobby for the government to give tax incentives to energy companies for making massive solar power arrays in the plains states and desert southwest. I calculate that ~1250 solar towers like those in Spain could power all the homes in America all day long plus about 1 hour worth of power saved up for after the sun sets. If they made ~12,500 of such towers, it could power all of the industry in the country in addition to the homes and offices.
This is of course a massive project, but hey, they just gave almost 2 trillion dollars away to a bunch of idiots who lost everything the first time. Surely if our government has no problem burning money, or giving it away to foreign nations that want to see us dead, then they would have no problem giving loans and tax incentives to energy companies for these projects. Plus it would put a lot of unemployed people to work.
its explain how the global warming scam works
feear mongering for more taaxation and control
http://www.youtub...Tb7vTamY
explaning the global warming scam with
multifield aproach
http://www.youtub...PV01uyRs
The first thing they would have to do is outlaw lawsuits, by the greens, attempting to block the construction of the power generating plants AND the distribution lines.
This is just another example of using emotion to win an argument rather than facts.