Scientist battle Arctic winter to measure melting ice cap

[Chris]

So you cannot deny that CO2 caused the earth to retain heat?

 

[Sinatra]

So you cannot deny that CO2 caused the earth to retain heat?

Perhaps temperature drives CO2 - hmmmm......

 

[Chris]

So you cannot deny that CO2 caused the earth to retain heat?

Perhaps temperature drives CO2 - hmmmm......

I will take that as a "Yes."

 

[Sinatra]

So you cannot deny that CO2 caused the earth to retain heat?

Perhaps temperature drives CO2 - hmmmm......

I will take that as a "Yes."

Perhaps you should actually consider the question posed...

CO2 Does Not Drive Glacial Cycles « Watts Up With That?

 

[Chris]

The question is, Does CO2 cause the earth to retain heat?

And the answer is, yes.

 

[driveby]

So stop breathing .......

 

[Chris]

So stop breathing .......

This is people respond when they have you run out of answers.

The basic facts of global warming were proven scientifically in 1859, yet the right wing nuts continue to deny it.

This is how powerful prejudice is.

 

[Wolf]

- 40 at night with no Sun.. above 32 F during the day when the Sun shines.. = melting glaciers..

ANTARCTIC WEATHER
"A blinding, shrieking blizzard all day, with the temperature ranging from -60 to -70°F." - Shackleton (1909)


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Coldest Temp:
-129°F (-89°C) on July 21, 1983
Location: Vostok Station
Warmest Temp:
+59°F (+15°C) on Jan 5, 1974
Location: Vanda Station
Mean Temps:
Winter: -40 to -94°F (-40 to -70°C)
Summer: -5 to -31°F (-15 to -35°C)
Weather in Antarctica - Antarctic Connection

" Note that from 1935-1945, arctic temperatures were much higher than today, and dropped from that peak until about 1960. This is why all of the scare stories on the arctic including last year's much heralded "Arctic Climate Impact Assessment" (ACIA) start their temperature records in 1960 -- it makes the current situation look catastrophic. Yes, things have gotten warmer since 1960 ... but what the fearful scientists somehow forget to tell you is that temperatures were even warmer before that."
Reality in Arctic temperature trends

Wow a headline from one days weather in 1909..

A mean is an average.. or midpoint.. temps fluctaute above and below them daily...

Here's an update..

When the temp is over 32F.. Ice usually melts..

That data you provided as an arguement against north pole ice melting is from the antartic.. which is the south pole.. not the north pole.. where Santa lives...

 

[Chris]

Antarctic temperatures went down because we created a hole in the ozone with CFCs.

But the Antarctic ice shelves are melting because the ocean is heating up.

 

[FactFinder]

Antarctic temperatures went down because we created a hole in the ozone with CFCs.

But the Antarctic ice shelves are melting because the ocean is heating up.

The sea ice extent in Antartica is clearly enlarging:

 

[FactFinder]

Figure 5: Map showing the monthly mean sea ice concentration for December 2007 superimposed with the long term (1979-2000) median sea ice extent for December. Click for a larger image.

Discussion of Dec07-Jan08 anomalous Southern Hemisphere (Antarctic) sea ice

 

[Old Rocks]

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. In addition, researchers found that the rate of ice loss in the affected areas has accelerated over the past 10 years -- as it has on most glaciers and ice sheets around the world.

"Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it's losing more," said Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking despite land temperatures for the continent remaining essentially unchanged, except for the fast-warming peninsula.

The cause, Rignot said, may be changes in the flow of the warmer water of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that circles much of the continent. Because of changed wind patterns and less-well-understood dynamics of the submerged current, its water is coming closer to land in some sectors and melting the edges of glaciers deep underwater.

"Something must be changing the ocean to trigger such changes," said Rignot, a senior scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We believe it is related to global climate forcing." Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

 

[del]

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. In addition, researchers found that the rate of ice loss in the affected areas has accelerated over the past 10 years -- as it has on most glaciers and ice sheets around the world.

"Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it's losing more," said Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking despite land temperatures for the continent remaining essentially unchanged, except for the fast-warming peninsula.

The cause, Rignot said, may be changes in the flow of the warmer water of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that circles much of the continent. Because of changed wind patterns and less-well-understood dynamics of the submerged current, its water is coming closer to land in some sectors and melting the edges of glaciers deep underwater.

"Something must be changing the ocean to trigger such changes," said Rignot, a senior scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We believe it is related to global climate forcing." Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

global climate forcing...



if you guys keep changing labels, how do you expect to build any brand loyalty?

 

[Old Rocks]

Warming significantly
There is no doubt that the Antarctic Peninsula, which juts out from the mainland of Antarctica towards South America, has warmed significantly. A 2002 study, however, concluded that between 1966 and 2000 the continent's interior cooled.

This study was promptly seized upon as proof that the world is not warming, even though a single example of localised cooling proves no such thing, as the lead author of the 2002 study has tried to point out.

A more recent and more comprehensive study has concluded that in fact Antarctica warmed by 0.5 °C between 1957 and 2006, with especially strong warming in West Antarctica.
Climate myths: Antarctica is getting cooler, not warmer, disproving global warming - environment - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist

 

[Old Rocks]

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. In addition, researchers found that the rate of ice loss in the affected areas has accelerated over the past 10 years -- as it has on most glaciers and ice sheets around the world.

"Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it's losing more," said Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking despite land temperatures for the continent remaining essentially unchanged, except for the fast-warming peninsula.

The cause, Rignot said, may be changes in the flow of the warmer water of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that circles much of the continent. Because of changed wind patterns and less-well-understood dynamics of the submerged current, its water is coming closer to land in some sectors and melting the edges of glaciers deep underwater.

"Something must be changing the ocean to trigger such changes," said Rignot, a senior scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We believe it is related to global climate forcing." Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

global climate forcing...



if you guys keep changing labels, how do you expect to build any brand loyalty?

Your label is still the same. Stupid Troll.

 

[elvis]

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. In addition, researchers found that the rate of ice loss in the affected areas has accelerated over the past 10 years -- as it has on most glaciers and ice sheets around the world.

"Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it's losing more," said Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking despite land temperatures for the continent remaining essentially unchanged, except for the fast-warming peninsula.

The cause, Rignot said, may be changes in the flow of the warmer water of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that circles much of the continent. Because of changed wind patterns and less-well-understood dynamics of the submerged current, its water is coming closer to land in some sectors and melting the edges of glaciers deep underwater.

"Something must be changing the ocean to trigger such changes," said Rignot, a senior scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We believe it is related to global climate forcing." Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

global climate forcing...



if you guys keep changing labels, how do you expect to build any brand loyalty?

Your label is still the same. Stupid Troll.

"I can see Mount St. Helens from my kitchen window."

 

[del]

Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.

While the overall loss is a tiny fraction of the miles-deep ice that covers much of Antarctica, scientists said the new finding is important because the continent holds about 90 percent of Earth's ice, and until now, large-scale ice loss there had been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. In addition, researchers found that the rate of ice loss in the affected areas has accelerated over the past 10 years -- as it has on most glaciers and ice sheets around the world.

"Without doubt, Antarctica as a whole is now losing ice yearly, and each year it's losing more," said Eric Rignot, lead author of a paper published online in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking despite land temperatures for the continent remaining essentially unchanged, except for the fast-warming peninsula.

The cause, Rignot said, may be changes in the flow of the warmer water of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current that circles much of the continent. Because of changed wind patterns and less-well-understood dynamics of the submerged current, its water is coming closer to land in some sectors and melting the edges of glaciers deep underwater.

"Something must be changing the ocean to trigger such changes," said Rignot, a senior scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We believe it is related to global climate forcing." Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica

global climate forcing...



if you guys keep changing labels, how do you expect to build any brand loyalty?

Your label is still the same. Stupid Troll.

oooh, that's gonna leave a mark. have an almond.