Is Global Warming a Hoax?
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Oops. We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice, sorry about that...
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenew…
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The world has never seen such freezing heat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comme…
- lowimpakt0
@george They can't deny it. That is the point. They (IPCC) are admitting errors as they appear (well, after some time of argument and review). That is the correct way.
Errors do undermine public confidence in the IPCC process and the questions being asked of the organisation are correct.
From my perspective, some errors in a 2800 page report that do not counter or disprove the underlying science are unfortunate but do not change the weight of evidence.
- according to the climate gate emails they were not errors but scientists falsifying data.Prototype_a
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Canada's highest peak growing, researcher finds
http://www.canada.com/ottawaciti…
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This paper, published in 2006, shows that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining enough ice to lower – lower! - global sea levels by 0.08 mm year.
http://www.cpom.org/research/djw…
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scien…
Julian Scott of the Bristish Antarctic Survey, who just returned from Antarctica, told the BBC: "This is a very important glacier; it's putting more ice into the sea than any other glacier in Antarctica.""It's a couple of kilometres thick, its 30km wide and it's moving at 3.5km per year, so it's putting a lot of ice into the ocean," said Scott."
Throughout the 1990s, according to satellite measurements, the glacier was accelerating by around 1% a year. Scott's sensational finding this season is that it now seems to have accelerated by 7% in a single season, sending more and more ice into the ocean.
"The reason does not seem to be warming in the surrounding air."
"One possible culprit could be a deep ocean current that is channelled onto the continental shelf close to the mouth of the glacier. There is not much sea ice to protect it from the warm water, which seems to be undercutting the ice and lubricating its flow."
"Much higher up the course of the glacier there is evidence of a volcano that erupted through the ice about 2,000 years ago and the whole region could be volcanically active, releasing geothermal heat to melt the base of the ice and help its slide towards the sea."
"That might take decades or a century, but neighbouring glaciers are accelerating too and if the entire region were to lose its ice, the sea would rise by 1.5m worldwide."
- You're an imbisolEightyDeuce
- Ohh really, so the data that exists just doesn't fit your idealogy, I suppose...?********
- the cherry picking you are doing? doesnt count as data chief.spifflink
- EightyDeuce0
Call it “Snowpocalypse” or “Snowageddon,” the mid-Atlantic and Northwestern U.S. have seen winter storms this year that rival anything in decades. Scientists agree that this kind of extreme weather is consistent with climate change research.
http://www.repoweramerica.org/cl…Fact: Climate change causes more frequent and severe snowstorms
Record snowstorms need two things: temperatures below freezing, and very high humidity. On a planet warmer by a few degrees on average, the Northeast US will still have plenty of days below freezing; the big difference will be warmer seas producing higher levels of moisture in the air — and therefore more severe cold-season storms.Fact: We can expect more extreme weather
Scientists tell us that climate change has already led to more extreme weather in the United States and we can expect stronger hurricanes, more wildfires, heatwaves and droughts, to name a few. The cost of inaction could reach half a trillion dollars a year.Fact: The world is warming at a quickening pace
Weather in one region over days or months should not be confused with climate or the patterns of weather over decades and centuries. And the science is clear here: the last decade was the hottest on record. And to put this year’s weather in perspective, January was warmer than average for the continental United States.
- mathinc0
@ EightyDeuce:
"Yet last week's latest episode is far from the first time Dr Hansen's methodology has been called in question. In 2007 he was forced by Mr Watts and Mr McIntyre to revise his published figures for US surface temperatures, to show that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s, as he had claimed, but the 1930s."
- lowimpakt0
ok - I'm trying to read through these last few articles.
"Alaskan Glaciers Grow for First Time in 250 years" Jazx
I don't see anywhere in the article that actually mentioned the "growing" glaciers but I did follow up on the researcher mentioned (Bruce Molnia) and picked up some of his papers. In the abstract of one paper he states that
"Today, retreating and/or thinning glaciers represent more than 98% of the glaciers examined. However, in the Coast Mountains, St. Elias Mountains, Chugach Mountains, and the Aleutian Range more than a dozen glaciers are currently advancing and thickening. Many currently advancing glaciers are or were formerly tidewater glaciers. Some of these glaciers have been expanding for more than two centuries. This presentation documents the post-Little-Ice-Age behavior and variability of the response of many Alaskan glaciers to changing regional climate."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/sci…
I don't know what the significance of being a "tide water glacier" is but it seems to me that the article you linked chose to ignore the fact that 98% of observed glaciers are retreating.
- lowimpakt0
The article on the Chacaltaya glacier is published (not in a peer reviewed science journal) by Dr. Lykke E. Andersen who has a Ph.D. in Economics and doesn't do any other scientific research.
it's pretty unconvincing and it seems to contradict itself in relation to summer temperture increases and cloud cover.
she also tries to sigh off by suggesting that it is possible related to Svensmark’s cosmic ray theory, which itself has been challenged in many places
- dibec0
It's a hoax everywhere except Vancouver, BC. =O
- xcreonx0
I hope it's a hoax
- lowimpakt0
"This paper, published in 2006, shows that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining enough ice to lower – lower!"
what the article says is that the Antartic will gain mass hrough increased snow/ice. This is consistent with the IPCC mention of increased mass and snow caused by a warming climate.
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Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
- hooray for quotes out of context. even the scientist himself is freaking out at these people for misquoting him.spifflink
- lowimpakt0
i have no idea why you posted a link to the increasing size of Mount Logan.
mountains grow. It's due to tectonic plates. we learned that in school.
- lowimpakt0
"Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995"
wrong. That isn't what he said. If you bothered to read the BBC interview you would have noticed that he said that there is a positive warming tread and that since 1995 the positive trend is quite close to the significance level of 95%.
this is not saying that there has been no warming. far from it.
In future, i suggest you actually find some of the sources for the stories you read instead of letting trash tabloids do the thinking for you.
- lowimpakt0
why is it that US conservatives are happy to lie when challenging climate change ( under the false proviso of defending their so-called liberty) when they are happy to alllow a conservative government actually decay their liberties under the guise of fighting terrorism (lead by a war in Iraq that was based on actual lies and conspiracy) ?
why? oh why?
present some credible alternative science.
