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Global warming: Glacier meltdown in Greenland

Mittivakkat Glacier has been surveyed for mass balance and glacier front fluctuations since 1995 and 1931 respectively. In 2011 the glacier terminus has retreated about 22 metres, 12 metres less than the observed record of 34 metres in 2010, and approximately 1,300 metres in total since the first photographic observations in 1931.

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The average retreat since 1931 is 16 metres per year. This year was slightly higher than average. If the glacier retreated 22 metres every year, Greenland would be ice free in only 20,000-30,000 years.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Arizona RV park snowbirds staying longer
If you haven’t yet arrived in Arizona for this year’s snowbird season, it is likely you won’t make it. However, if after watching the chaotic weather that is now plaguing the mid-west and Canada and you are thinking about extending your stay to avoid the winter furies, don’t wait too long to extend your reservation.

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Huntsman and Romney are both global warming true believers.

Time Magazine encourages Republicans to nominate a guaranteed loser.

Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear

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Only an anti-science idiot would disagree with the consensus.

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There was a bear in the area. They didn’t know how to use their gun. They didn’t know how to use their flare system.

Killer polar bear near camp where it mauled British teenager to death one week later

Prowling in the vicinity of a number of tents, this hungry polar bear is photographed just a week before it went on a ferocious rampage which left one Eton College-educated teen dead and four other Brits seriously wounded.

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It has been more than 35 months since a hurricane struck the US, the longest period since before the Civil War. Rest assured, when one does hit, Romm will tell us that it is proof of global warming.

 Assuming the current rate of ice shrinkage and accompanying weight loss in the Hudson Bay region, bears there could become so thin by 2012 they may no longer be able to reproduce, said Lara Hansen, chief scientist for the World Wildlife Fund.

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The discussion is over!

Wegener and Continental Drift Theory

Since his ideas challenged scientists in geology, geophysics, zoogeography and paleontology, it demonstrates the reactions of different communities of scientists. The reactions by the leading authorities in the different disciplines was so strong and so negative that serious discussion of the concept stopped. One noted scientist, the geologist Barry Willis, seemed to be speaking for the rest when he said:

further discussion of it merely incumbers the literature and befogs the mind of fellow students.

Barry Willis’s and the other scientists wishes were fulfilled. Discussion did stop in the larger scientific community and students’ minds were not befogged. The world had to wait until the 1960’s for a wide discussion of the Continental Drift Theory to be restarted.

http://www.scientus.org/Wegener-Continental-Drift.html

“We very likely will live to see ice-free summers in the Arctic,” says Marika Holland, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. “Or if we don’t live to see it, our children will.”

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“Some of these shipping routes will become open much more reliably,” she says. “But we’re not close to that yet and we can’t really predict exactly when that’s going to happen.”