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Alarm as EU budget chief questions global warming

Environmental groups are sounding alarm bells however, warning that EU budget commissioner Janusz Lewandowski’s scepticism towards climate change is almost certain to affect his drafting of the crucial EU document which will shape the bloc’s policy for years to come (2014-2020).

“Question marks are appearing ever more frequently over global warming itself,” added the Polish commissioner

“That degree of climate change scepticism is now rare in Europe, and even rarer among politician’s of Lewandowski’s seniority.”

“One can’t have much faith in the commission’s budget proposals if one of the chief architects admits in a private capacity that he has doubts over global warming.”

http://euobserver.com/?aid=32534

An irreversible climate “tipping point” could occur within the next 20 years as a result of the release of huge quantities of organic carbon locked away as frozen plant matter in the vast permafrost region of the Arctic, scientists have found.

Warming threat to the frozen ground of the arctic: Click here to download the graphic (80k)

Billions of tons of frozen leaves and roots that have lain undisturbed for thousands of years in the permanently frozen ground of the northern hemisphere are thawing out, with potentially catastrophic implications for climate change, the researchers said

http://www.independent.co.uk/

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?

Seth Borenstein in Washington
Associated Press

December 12, 2007

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer—a sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point.

One scientist even speculated that summer sea ice could be gone in five years.

Greenland’s ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer’s end was half what it was just four years ago, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by the Associated Press (AP).

“The Arctic is screaming,” said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government’s snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/

h/t to Scarlet Pumpernickel

 

Al Gore – John Edwards – Newt Gingrich – Arnold Schwarzenegger. Upstanding family men.

Honorary mention : Osama Bin Laden – Charles Manson,

Yes, we publicly berate skeptics, compare them to Holocaust deniers, block them from being published and threaten to de-certify them – but please feel free to do research which runs contrary to the “consensus.” It will be warmly received.

The scam for the week is the claim that a tiny increase in CO2 in the 19th century up to 281 ppm, triggered the fastest sea level rise in 2,000 years.

Let’s pretend for a minute that theory is correct. The implication is that there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

Either way they lose, so why are they playing this silly game?

1. An ice cube can’t melt if the temperature in the room is steady or declining.
2. When glacial ice melts, the water often just disappears.
3. An atmosphere with 95% CO2 can be as hot as Venus or as cold as Mars. CO2 controls the temperature, but is very fickle.

Between 1794 and 1879, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated an average of eight feet per day. Retreat has been much slower over the last 100 years. Emission controls established by the first Continental Congress halted the decline of the glacier.

As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.

Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.

By 1879 naturist John Muir found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.

http://www.glacierbay.org/glaciers.html