Global warming and the melting of the polar caps is worse than previously thought, according to a new study from the University of Arizona that appeared in Nature Geoscience
The study estimates that subsurface ocean temperature along the coast of Greenland could rise by 3 degrees Fahrenheit and those along the coast of Antarctica could rise by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.
The effects are already being seen as below normal sea surface temperatures with lots of ice.
http://www.andreassen.gl/andreassen/webcam.htm
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif
As long as you’re using “could rise by”, why not go whole hog?
“Temperatures along Greenland could rise by 10,000,000°K as the universe collapses to a single, infinitesimal point sometime within the next 50,000,000,000 years unless we stop George W. Bush and Fox News, according to scientists who’d spent all night gobbling mushrooms and watching old Carl Sagan videos. When told it wasn’t 2006 anymore, the scientists looked confused for a moment and then started their 40 minute rant all over again.”
So, let me get this straight: greenhouse gases put out by Mankind are supposedly causing the Earth to heat up…..at different temperatures? Wouldn’t “global warming” be homogenous?
You apparently do not understand that “Global” means regional and in most cases sub-regional or localized as in a few square blocks. Temperatures being measured represent a 1 cubic meter region surrounding the equipment. The further away the greater chance of error. I am 40 miles from the nearest monitoring site and the temperature varies between locations up to 10F up or down depending on local weather conditions.
……and by regional, they mean wherever there is a thermometer near an asphalt parking lot, air conditioning unit, or airport.
WilliamTeach
In ‘global warming’ no thinking is allowed. You see, you are trying to think. Stop thinking and ‘global warming’ will start to make more sense.
I expect that the model used to generate this “scenario” has all of the regular climate sensitivity and [CO2] enhanced parameters.
Since it is unreasonable to expect that these factors be made more realistic, is it likely that the models will be re-calibrated to include the recent cooling/stagnation in global temperatures so that the prognostications might become more realistic? /sarcoff
“Global warming and the melting of the polar caps is worse than previously thought,”
Surely it was already worse than the previous worse we previously thought it was worse than.
The more Nature stubbornly refuses to cooperate with the models, the worse it gets.
My aunt ‘could be’ my uncle if she had a…
Nephew?
If your aunt was your uncle then you would be his niece!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw