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Lol 1.5c, even if true, can disrupt the climate of planet Earth.
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How does CO2 do any of that
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How does CO2 do any of that
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Permafrost
Permafrost
Is Alaska Melting?
Studies of permafrost in Alaska are providing valuable information about the potential effects of global warming. One project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has been monitoring temperatures and depth of permafrost since 1976. Precise temperature measurements have been made in a series of holes bored 200 feet deep along a line running north to south down the middle of the state along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Study results show that much of the undisturbed discontinuous permafrost south of the Yukon River has warmed significantly and some of it is thawing. That raises the possibility that roads, buildings, and other structures on thawed areas will collapse. Another problem could arise as well: As permafrost thaws it can release methane and carbon dioxide, gases that contribute to the green house effect and accelerate global warming.
What Alaskans are saying.
C'mon man.. Use those noodles.
That raises the possibility that roads, buildings, and other structures on thawed areas will collapse.
RAISES THE POSSIBILITY?? Don't you think that's an understatement from a GW fanatic? It GUARANTEES the inevitable thaw of the ground under it..
No cooling path to the sky -- No winter refreezing. House, Road, Pipeline, --- doesn't matter. That doesn't even take into account the self-heating and radiative nature of the structure itself. Good Lord.
Tell me about melting permafrost in UNDEVELOPED areas. Don't whine about some soil engineers and hydrologists that are just blaming their very bad judgement on Global Warming. I'd LOVE to hear that court case when some Multi-$$megabuck strip mall sinks into the muck in a decade or so.. And the jury is told the cause was man-made CO2 emissions.
Fallen trees after the permafrost melted in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2004.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ASHLEY COOPER, CORBIS
Drunken trees are becoming most prevalent in lowland arboreal forests across Alaska, Canada, and northern Eurasia, says Jorgenson. On steeper slopes, meltwater usually runs downhill quickly, which causes less disturbance on the surface. Birch and black spruce—with their shallow root systems—are the species most likely to lean.
Some climate models have predicted that most permafrost could melt by the end of the century. Jorgenson thinks it will take longer, since soil layers above the frozen ground are good insulators. But the area north of Fairbanks is predicted to warm by four to six degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
"In the last hundred years we've increased about 1.5 degrees Celsius, so that's going to be a huge sledgehammer coming down," says Jorgenson.
In that case, there are likely to be more drunken trees. Right now, around 7 to 8 percent of the land in the middle boreal zone in Alaska is showing some signs of drunken trees or other melting-related impacts, says Jorgenson.
Drunken Trees: Dramatic Signs of Climate Change
But you knew about this already, Flacaltenn. Dishonest of you to make the statement you have knowing this.
Permafrost
Permafrost
Is Alaska Melting?
Studies of permafrost in Alaska are providing valuable information about the potential effects of global warming. One project at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute has been monitoring temperatures and depth of permafrost since 1976. Precise temperature measurements have been made in a series of holes bored 200 feet deep along a line running north to south down the middle of the state along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Study results show that much of the undisturbed discontinuous permafrost south of the Yukon River has warmed significantly and some of it is thawing. That raises the possibility that roads, buildings, and other structures on thawed areas will collapse. Another problem could arise as well: As permafrost thaws it can release methane and carbon dioxide, gases that contribute to the green house effect and accelerate global warming.
What Alaskans are saying.
C'mon man.. Use those noodles.
That raises the possibility that roads, buildings, and other structures on thawed areas will collapse.
RAISES THE POSSIBILITY?? Don't you think that's an understatement from a GW fanatic? It GUARANTEES the inevitable thaw of the ground under it..
No cooling path to the sky -- No winter refreezing. House, Road, Pipeline, --- doesn't matter. That doesn't even take into account the self-heating and radiative nature of the structure itself. Good Lord.
Tell me about melting permafrost in UNDEVELOPED areas. Don't whine about some soil engineers and hydrologists that are just blaming their very bad judgement on Global Warming. I'd LOVE to hear that court case when some Multi-$$megabuck strip mall sinks into the muck in a decade or so.. And the jury is told the cause was man-made CO2 emissions.
Fallen trees after the permafrost melted in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2004.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ASHLEY COOPER, CORBIS
Drunken trees are becoming most prevalent in lowland arboreal forests across Alaska, Canada, and northern Eurasia, says Jorgenson. On steeper slopes, meltwater usually runs downhill quickly, which causes less disturbance on the surface. Birch and black spruce—with their shallow root systems—are the species most likely to lean.
Some climate models have predicted that most permafrost could melt by the end of the century. Jorgenson thinks it will take longer, since soil layers above the frozen ground are good insulators. But the area north of Fairbanks is predicted to warm by four to six degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
"In the last hundred years we've increased about 1.5 degrees Celsius, so that's going to be a huge sledgehammer coming down," says Jorgenson.
In that case, there are likely to be more drunken trees. Right now, around 7 to 8 percent of the land in the middle boreal zone in Alaska is showing some signs of drunken trees or other melting-related impacts, says Jorgenson.
Drunken Trees: Dramatic Signs of Climate Change
But you knew about this already, Flacaltenn. Dishonest of you to make the statement you have knowing this.
Well then, we should have records of that phenomenon for prior times. Present those records in rebuttal to what the scientists are presenting. If you cannot, then we have to accept what they are stating.
Gotta love it when liars like Westwall, Billy Bob, and jc come on here are flap their yaps. All one has to do is put permafrost and Alaska on google to see what the people up there are dealing with.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
Science is definitely not settled. ALL of the initial projections and prophecies of doom are failing -- and the ACTUAL numbers for future temperature and disaster are currently being revised WAY down from what they were 15 years ago.
The skeptics have already won without a debate. Debate was never formally allowed. That should tell you something right there. GW is killing itself quite nicely -- thank-you...
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
Science is definitely not settled. ALL of the initial projections and prophecies of doom are failing -- and the ACTUAL numbers for future temperature and disaster are currently being revised WAY down from what they were 15 years ago.
The skeptics have already won without a debate. Debate was never formally allowed. That should tell you something right there. GW is killing itself quite nicely -- thank-you...
Course, could be too the dooms that didn't come true didn't because of measures taken to prevent them as with granting the premise and reducing emissions and the like.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
People on a message board entrenched in fantasy are not worth the effort.
Scientists settled the science 15 years ago. Global Warming is real and accelerating.
There is no debate.
Science is definitely not settled. ALL of the initial projections and prophecies of doom are failing -- and the ACTUAL numbers for future temperature and disaster are currently being revised WAY down from what they were 15 years ago.
The skeptics have already won without a debate. Debate was never formally allowed. That should tell you something right there. GW is killing itself quite nicely -- thank-you...
Course, could be too the dooms that didn't come true didn't because of measures taken to prevent them as with granting the premise and reducing emissions and the like.
That's a weird statement. "Granting the premise -- and the like" is enough to deter Global Warming?
CO2 is STILL rising.. The temps? Not so much.. Check the man-made emissions for yourself. China is building out about 3 coal plants per month.