On the one hand:
Escalating Ice Loss Found in Antarctica
Sheets Melting in an Area Once Thought to Be Unaffected by Global Warming
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.
On the other hand, the Blogging Tories would like you to know that it snowed somewhere today, and that they have pictures of thermometers and ... you know, it's just easier to call them stupid.
7 comments:
But, but, but ... Al Gore is fat! And a liar. And a big fat lying liar. So there.
It's all Bill Clinton's fault!
Hey, it's snowing again in Ottawa. That's where this "lost" ice is going. If you add up all the snow this year there's more than ever. So much for global warming. Oh, and my outdoor thermometer is near the dryer vent. Nyah.
Global warming is obviously false cuz there is still ice in my freezer and because Bill OReilly says so.
He's such an expert. And so sexy with his big bald fat head and all those falafel.
Yeah... So far global warming is going at about the rate predicted by the most pessimistic people ten years ago. Everything is as bad as or worse than our very worst estimates. And still, we are not even planning for the best case!
Groovyj — Not to worry! We're all going to get raptured up to Heaven in the next 50 years, so this shameless money grab by a vast, nefarious global conspiracy of liberal scientists, academic elites and motley assortment of heathen anarchists and enviro-Nazis led some corpulent, self-promoting megalomaniacal demagogue should be ignored completely in the meantime!
Well, at least that's what the BTs are telling us and it's not like they don't provide the unvarnished, fact-filled TRUTH, or as if they're ever wrong about anything...
Don't tell anyone, but I am a research scientist on a Canadian campus and just got back from our big Socialist-Scientist-Consipracy-Meeting in the Dean of Sciences office. After we performed our atheist chants, popped open a few hundred CO2 canisters outside, built a bonfire around our local weather station and secretly upped the temperature in buildings across the campus by 1C, we discussed the next step in our grand global conspiracy to rob citizens of their hard earned money.....shhhhhh!
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