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Yes, they popped up yet another goofy story about ‘the ice is MELTING’
Well, it ain’t melting here on my mountain! Below zero AGAIN last night! This is insanely cold for this time of year.
I see a comment ban coming!
Of course in the warmists twisted view of reality the poles are just supposed to continually gain ice and never lose any at all ….ever. In the real world it’s the net mass of the ice sheet that’s relevant so unless there’s been something radical happen recently there’s a net GAIN of ice mass of 49 Gt/Yr and that’s according to NASA’s own Jay ” Arctic Ocean ice-free by 2012″ Zwally
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20120013495
The ice is melting there because Antarctica’s cold center is expanding, creating newer ice there, growing and pushing out the old ice. But “experts” tell the lazy AP only half that story, implying it’s from global warming when it’s a mini ice age pattern instead.
Actually Antarctica’s is melting because of GEOTHERMAL HEAT. Volcanoes do have a tendency to melt ice…
First evidence of under-ice volcanic eruption in Antarctica — The first evidence of a volcanic eruption from beneath Antarctica’s most rapidly changing ice sheet is reported this week in the journal Nature Geosciences.
Active Volcano Found Under Antarctic Ice: Eruption Could Raise Sea Levels The news ALWAYS has to have an Alarmist twist doesn’t it?
Researchers Find Major West Antarctic Glacier Melting from Geothermal Sources — Thwaites Glacier, the large, rapidly changing outlet of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is not only being eroded by the ocean, it’s being melted from below by geothermal heat… more data and computer modeling are needed to determine when the collapse will begin in earnest and at what rate the sea level will increase as it proceeds.
Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes —
The Arctic seabed is as explosive geologically as it is politically judging by the “fountains” of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole.
Robot Sub Finds Surprisingly Thick Antarctic Sea Ice — Not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year, but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously thought, a new study reports.
The Antarctic is actually gaining mass:
(joannenovaDOT)com.au/2013/04/antarctica-gaining-ice-mass-and-is-not-extraordinary-compared-to-800-years-of-data/
Antarctica is freezing up again even though it is still summer (the fringes along the ocean, that is…the center never got anywhere near above freezing at all at any point).
emsnews says:
February 28, 2015 at 2:12 pm
Antarctica is freezing up again even though it is still summer (the fringes along the ocean, that is…the center never got anywhere near above freezing at all at any point).
No, and it never does and never will until antarctica moves further north.
Aaaaand the parts of the Antarctic where actual thermometers were set records for the coldest June since records began . During June 2014 at the Météo-France base Dumont d’Urville, the average temperature was -22.4 ° C, which is 6.6 ° C lower than normal and the lowest since 1956 plus June also saw the lowest record ever for the base at -34.9 ° C besting the previous record by -1.5 ° C.
http://www.meteofrance.fr/actualites?articleId=8990197
And on July 30th 2014 the British Antarctic Survey recorded their lowest temperature ever at their Halley VI base
http://www.cfact.org/2014/08/07/british-antartctic-survey-trapped-without-power-during-record-cold-55-4-c/
My brother, who works at NASA, just sent me this video. Looks like more budget cuts for the space program and another partner in the International Space Station…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/pD_yQZ4iNjY?rel=0
WOW , complete with recovery system !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlCUOCZvg6Y&feature=player_detailpage – Second attempt
That’ll make the Muslims feel better about themselves.
gator, not sure what your Muslim comment refers to, but those videos are in Thailand. At least the first one is as the announcer is speaking Thai. Can’t quite hear the audio on the second, though seems to be a different view of the same rocket as the 2nd video below. Highly unlikely to be Muslims since these are in the northern part of Thailand, and in Laos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGkpwMm8ac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM3N57zkZi0
“Mr Bolden said: “When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
“One, he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html
Cool! It took some skill to maintain the orientation of the gizmo. I wonder if they had lab animals aboard this “rocket”.
The US threw up lots of failures during the late 1950’s, but those failures were quite a bit more sophisticated than this. Let’s hope there’s a young Werner von Mbuke among this crew, being inspired to become a space engineer.
Oh, man, am I jealous! In Arizona during the 1960’s we all set off a lot of homemade craft like this but nothing THIS big! I like how the last man gave the huge ring a big push to make it spin.
If you close your eyes real tight and concentrate, you can feel the Antarctic ice melting beneath your feet.
From IPCC WGIAR5 Chapter 13: Sea Levels
Figure 13.6 – 2005 to 2012.3 – 20 mm sea level rise. 20/7.3 = 2.74 mm (0.108”)/year * (2100-2012.5)/25.4 = 9.46”. (Rate extrapolated to 2100.)
Figure 13.7 – 1910 to 2100 – observed and modeled rise – plus 180 mm = 7.08”, .98”/yr.
Figure 13.7 – 1960 to 2010 – observed and modeled rise – plus 100 mm = 3.94”, 0.079”/yr (7.11” by 2100)
Figure 13.7 – 1990 to 2010 – observed and modeled rise – plus 50 mm = 1.97”, 0.098”/yr (8.82” by 2100)
Figure 13.7 – 1994 to 2010 – observed rise – plus 55 mm = 2.17”, .136”/yr (12.24” by 2100).
Figure 13.9 – predicted rise by year 2100 for each of the RCP scenarios, Slangen and van de Wal: RCP 2.6: 110 mm or 4.3”, RCP 4.5: 145 mm or 5.7”, RCP 6.0: 170 mm or 6.7”, RCP 8.5: 214 mm or 8.43”.
Table 13.5 – RCP2.6: 600 mm, RCP 4.5: 440 mm, RCP6.0: 550 mm, RCP8.5: 740 mm.
Table 13.8 – medium scenario, median of range: year 2100: 425 mm (16.7”), year 2200: 675 mm (26.6”), year 2300: 890 mm (35.0”), year 2400: 1055 mm (41.5”), year 2500: 1250 mm (49.2”)
The projected worst case cause for the current hysteria doesn’t happen for 485 years.
‘Children in Britain won’t know what snow is.’
From 2000
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
From 2014 pics of the snow chaos and one of children sledding. (shock, it’s still cold, snow, and winter)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/weather/11278346/First-winter-snow-of-2014-hits-England.html
It was insanely cold here in Santa Fe when I got up this morning. Colder than it has been since I arrived here nearly two months ago.
What a laugh that the Useful Idiots in charge of the daily rag here decided to run this story on this, of all mornings.
Don’t be too harsh. I’m old friends with the publisher. She has a degree in geology and let me write an editorial a couple of years ago.
Maybe the timing was not a coincidence but a subtle laugh at the warmistratia.
Warm what? Warmistratia? Please explain.
Gee, if it weren’t for evaporation and precipitation, think of the horror of all that water from melted ice ending up in the ocean.