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According to the Associated Press, that's a sure sign the earth is warming.
Low temperature records set in Denver and Montana
According to the Associated Press, that's a sure sign the earth is warming.
Somewhere, al gore is frowning.
global cooling which became global warming is now called climate change.
Yeah, to call it global cooling again may have been too obvious.
No kidding, that map has my location at 12 F, and it is freaking cold. We are normally 30's or 40's in December and not in the 20's until late January are February.
I wonder just how cold it will get here...
It's effing cold outside here in Dallas. Al Gore, someone turn on the damn heat.
thats just the cold chill of a future arrival.
How nice it was for past civilizations to not have their fellow peers freak out over climate change on their 4 billion year old planet.
this is the first time someone has started a thread like this
i never thought of that way
rofl global warming my ass its cold outside!
you mean 6,000
Global warming has us right where it wants us.
don't you mean global cooling?
-Mars
mmm never heard that one before
-Mars
Well, here's my quick hypothesis on the situation.
You take all the flaming assholes in the world, and consider how much farts they are igniting. You'd thing the added CO2 would warm the world. Instead, their unburnt hangs in the air like a bad cloud, keeping the sunshine of truth from making it to the earth. Less sunlight = cooling. They try to create a situation to rule from, but it backfires on them.
global warming reared it's ugly head here in dallas. i wish i could console mr gore.
Over 2,000,000,000,000 tons of ice melted in arctic since '03
WASHINGTON – More than 2 trillion tons of land ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted since 2003, according to new NASA satellite data that show the latest signs of what scientists say is global warming.
More than half of the loss of landlocked ice in the past five years has occurred in Greenland, based on measurements of ice weight by NASA's GRACE satellite, said NASA geophysicist Scott Luthcke. The water melting from Greenland in the past five years would fill up about 11 Chesapeake Bays, he said, and the Greenland melt seems to be accelerating.
NASA scientists planned to present their findings Thursday at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. Luthcke said Greenland figures for the summer of 2008 aren't complete yet, but this year's ice loss, while still significant, won't be as severe as 2007.
The news was better for Alaska. After a precipitous drop in 2005, land ice increased slightly in 2008 because of large winter snowfalls, Luthcke said. Since 2003, when the NASA satellite started taking measurements, Alaska has lost 400 billion tons of land ice.
In assessing climate change, scientists generally look at several years to determine the overall trend.
Melting of land ice, unlike sea ice, increases sea levels very slightly. In the 1990s, Greenland didn't add to world sea level rise; now that island is adding about half a millimeter of sea level rise a year, NASA ice scientist Jay Zwally said in a telephone interview from the conference.
Between Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska, melting land ice has raised global sea levels about one-fifth of an inch in the past five years, Luthcke said. Sea levels also rise from water expanding as it warms.
Other research, being presented this week at the geophysical meeting point to more melting concerns from global warming, especially with sea ice.
"It's not getting better; it's continuing to show strong signs of warming and amplification," Zwally said. "There's no reversal taking place."
Scientists studying sea ice will announce that parts of the Arctic north of Alaska were 9 to 10 degrees warmer this past fall, a strong early indication of what researchers call the Arctic amplification effect. That's when the Arctic warms faster than predicted, and warming there is accelerating faster than elsewhere on the globe.
As sea ice melts, the Arctic waters absorb more heat in the summer, having lost the reflective powers of vast packs of white ice. That absorbed heat is released into the air in the fall. That has led to autumn temperatures in the last several years that are six to 10 degrees warmer than they were in the 1980s, said research scientist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.
That's a strong and early impact of global warming, she said.
"The pace of change is starting to outstrip our ability to keep up with it, in terms of our understanding of it," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., a co-author of the Arctic amplification study.
Two other studies coming out at the conference assess how Arctic thawing is releasing methane — the second most potent greenhouse gas. One study shows that the loss of sea ice warms the water, which warms the permafrost on nearby land in Alaska, thus producing methane, Stroeve says.
A second study suggests even larger amounts of frozen methane are trapped in lakebeds and sea bottoms around Siberia and they are starting to bubble to the surface in some spots in alarming amounts, said Igor Semiletov, a professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. In late summer, Semiletov found methane bubbling up from parts of the East Siberian Sea and Laptev Sea at levels that were 10 times higher than they were in the mid-1990s, he said based on a study this summer.
The amounts of methane in the region could dramatically increase global warming if they get released, he said.
That, Semiletov said, "should alarm people."
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Ignore the ice melting behind the curtain, pay attention to the winter cold snaps...
Last edited by RandomGuy; 12-16-2008 at 11:00 AM.
Time to look for Santa's oil.
We're All Going To Die, Don't You Get It?!!?
Why haven't the oceans risen? Oh yeah...
Over 2,000,000,000,000 tons of ice formed elsewhere in the world since '03
Random, any idea how much lower the oceans would be without the norther melting? You know Antarctica's ice has been getting deeper, right?
Also... The tonnage referred to in your article would be 5.5 mm increase in sea level if it wasn't going someplace else.
Al Gore should come hang out at the coast with me.
We could see the waters rise over a foot within 24 hours.
Thanks to sea ice growing at the fastest pace since 1979, the daily global sea ice anomaly is back to zero -- basically the same amount present in 1980.
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