thought this was an interesting article:
By STEPHEN STRAUSS
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
For Canadians who have spent the summer asking where summer has gone, new satellite observations show we're not alone.
According to an analysis by scientists at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, July was the coldest worldwide since 1992. That year's cool spell was precipitated by the eruption of the Philippine volcano Pinatubo, which spewed 20 to 30 million tonnes of sunlight-deflecting dust into the atmosphere.
But scientists don't know why the Earth's thermostat has dropped this year.
In the Northern Hemisphere, July's temperatures were below the 20-year average by .14 degrees Celsius and in the Southern Hemisphere by .29 degrees. Both the tropics and Antarctica showed marked coolness.
The July weather tracks a drop in average worldwide temperature that has been going on since March, said John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the Alabama university.
What is not clear is whether a single physical phenomenon is responsible for the downward trend.
"There haven't been any new volcanoes or anything like that," Prof. Christy said, "so I think we just have to chalk this up to the natural variability of the system.
Rick Walls, a meteorologist at Environment Canada in Winnipeg, said: "In the eastern Prairies it looks like it is going to be the coldest summer on record since data started being collected in the 19th century."
How cold did it get? In Saskatoon on July 29, the overnight low was .07 degrees, breaking weather records that had been started in 1892. In Winnipeg on July 23, the overnight low was three degrees, the lowest recorded since 1872.
It was the cold in the Prairies that may have been the most impressive. For May through mid-August, temperatures were on average three degrees below normal, beating records that go back to 1872.
But Dave Phillips, chief meteorologist for Environment Canada, pointed out that the cold wasn't just slightly beating the past. In weather terms it completely eclipsed lows of 14.2 C which were recorded in 1883 and 1907.
"A half of a degree average difference is like somebody in the hundred-metre dash in the Olympics not beating the former world record by the usual tenths of a second, but by a full second," he said. "It is really quite startling."
The unseasonable temperatures may have an unexpected positive health spinoff: Less mosquito-borne West Nile virus has been seen across the country, he said. "The cool weather means there are less mosquitoes."
But some businesses that depend on fair weather are feeling the pinch. "I was expecting to do better," said Maria Gilipo, marketing and finance manager for Sicilian Ice Cream Company, an old-fashioned ice-cream parlour in Toronto. "It's been a lousy summer. When it's cloudy, gloomy and rainy, people don't come to visit us as often."
At the 105-room Bangor Lodge on Ontario's Lake Muskoka, bookings haven't dropped but the guests have adapted to Mother Nature's whims.
"A lot more people are in the heated pool this year than in the lake," staff member Michelle Smith said. "We have three weeks of the summer left, and we're certainly hoping the weather warms up."
"A lot more people have been canceling or rescheduling their reservations at the last second," said Thom Lillie, assistant manager of the Whispering Pines Campground in Bracebridge, Muskoka, which can accommodate up to 600 campers. "People are keeping a close eye on the weather forecasts."
While Canadians who have taken themselves off to the beach or the cottage may feel a little cheated by the cool weather, a super-hot summer isn't everyone's idea of paradise. "Here in Alabama we have been very grateful for a cool summer," Prof. Christy said.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/ ... echnology/
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Frost every month of the year - 20 Aug 2004
At least seven records for cold were shattered last night including in Winnipeg, where temperatures dropped to zero, breaking a record set in 1895. The cold also spread to Saskatchewan, with temperatures dipping to minus three degrees in Broadview. Winnipeg also saw snow pellets on Wednesday. Environment Canada has no previous record of snow falling in August.
Farmers worry about the early frost, especially since a killing frost also struck last month in a small area south of Brandon. The first killing frost in the fall usually comes in the third week of September.
"It looks like this year could be one of the very few years – the first year I've ever heard of – that we've had a frost in every month of the year," says Scott Day, Manitoba Agriculture representative.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national ... 40820.html
Canadian summer temps coldest on record – August 22, 2004 - “It looks like it is going to be the coldest summer on record since data started being collected in the 19th century," says Rick Walls, a meteorologist at Environment Canada in Winnipeg.
In Saskatoon, temperatures on July 29 plunged to .07 degrees, the coldest since record keeping began in the area in 1892. Meanwhile, on July 23, temperatures in Winnipeg fell to three degrees, the lowest on record since 1872.
In the Canadian Prairies, temperatures for May through mid-August averaged three degrees below normal, beating records that go back to 1872, “completely eclips(ing) lows of 14.2 C which were recorded in 1883 and 1907.”
Canadian summer temps coldest on record – August 22, 2004 - “It looks like it is going to be the coldest summer on record since data started being collected in the 19th century," says Rick Walls, a meteorologist at Environment Canada in Winnipeg.
In Saskatoon, temperatures on July 29 plunged to .07 degrees, the coldest since record keeping began in the area in 1892. Meanwhile, on July 23, temperatures in Winnipeg fell to three degrees, the lowest on record since 1872.
In the Canadian Prairies, temperatures for May through mid-August averaged three degrees below normal, beating records that go back to 1872, “completely eclips(ing) lows of 14.2 C which were recorded in 1883 and 1907.”
August frost in Minnesota - August 19, 2004 - Overnight temperatures in Tower, MN dropped to 25F, while Embarrass dipped to 27. International Falls reported a new record low of 36F, while Duluth dropped to 37F, setting another record low. Morris reported a record low of 38, while Hutchinson tied the record low of 42 set in 1967. In Austin, temperatures fell to 40F, just 2 degrees short of tying a record set some 37 years ago.
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S1931.html?cat=64
Weather in central Canada resembles winter - “These are supposed to be the dog days of summer. But for people living in central and eastern parts of the country, it seems summer has gone to the dogs.”
”Meteorologists say the current weather pattern over central Canada resembles winter -- a huge mass of cold air from the North, stuck over the Prairies. As the system moves east, there's more cold air to fill the void.
“Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec will be experiencing cooler temperatures for weeks.
“Farmers have also been hit hard by the inconsistent weather. A freak snowstorm in May delayed seeding for farmers in Manitoba. Then cool temperatures in June and July shortened the growing season. (from CTV, the Canadian Television Network)
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/Arti ... hub=Canada
All-time record cold August across Minnesota - Aug 19, 2004 – “Late summer vacations have brought sweatshirts and frost across Minnesota and Wisconsin this month … instead of the usual steamy and sultry dog days of August.” Here are the top five coldest Augusts on record for Alexandria, St. Cloud, and Eau Clair through August 18th.”
Alexandria (1940-2004)
1. 62.3 (2004)***
2. 64.3 (1977)
3. 65.2 (1951)
4. 65.4 (1985)
5. 65.6 (1948)
St. Cloud (1904-2004)
1. 62.5 (1977)
2. 62.8 (2004)***
3. 63.6 (1992)
4. 63.9 (1994)
5. 64.5 (1997)
Eau Claire (1949-2004)
1. 63.4 (1951)
2. 63.6 (2004)***
3. 64.8 (1977)
4. 64.9 (1992)
5. 65.7 (1952)
This morning’s low temperatures ranged from 10 to 20 degrees below normal, and another very cool morning is expected tomorrow.
(from the National Weather Service, Twin/Cities/Chanhassen, Minnesota)
Global Cooling Everywhere, satellites show
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i agree that the world is cooling, really. I dont think these "Models" can forecast what the temp will be in 50 years. Which is the base of this global warming crap. "The earth will warm 5 to 10 degrees in the next 100 years", my answer to that questions is how do you know??? If models aren't right after 8 days usually, how do you trust one, 100 years out.
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Yes we indeed are moving into a colder, snowier regime overall. I've been closely watching this now for over 10 years. Here are some additional headlines:
Ice thickens in West Antarctica
Fri., January 18, 2002 9:00 a.m. ET
By the Associated Press, Randolph E. Schmid
WASHINGTON (AP) - New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing earlier estimates that the sheet was melting.
Scientists concerned about global warming had worried that higher temperatures could melt the massive ice sheet, causing a rise in sea levels worldwide.
But new flow measurements for the Ross ice streams, using special satellite-based radar, indicate that movement of some of the ice streams has slowed or halted, allowing the ice to thicken, according to a paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
If the thickening is not merely part of some short-term fluctuation, it represents a reversal of the long retreat of the ice, say researchers Ian Joughin of the California Institute of Technology and Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Their finding comes less than a week after a separate paper in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys - long considered a bellwether for global climate change - have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-1980s.
Air temperatures recorded continuously over a 14-year period ending in 1999 declined by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the polar deserts and across the White Continent, that paper said.
The cooling defies a trend spanning more than 100 years in which average land surface temperatures have increased worldwide by about 1 degree Fahrenheit. The scientists said Antarctica is the only continent that is cooling. They could not say why.
In their paper, Joughin and Tulaczyk suggest the West Antarctic ice streams may be undergoing the same transition from shrinking to growing that appears to have occurred on a neighboring stream 150 years ago.
The results, they add, suggest a reduced possibility of the feared massive collapse of the ice field.
"Perhaps, after 10,000 years of retreat from the ice-age maximum, researchers turned on their instruments just in time to catch the stabilization or re-advance of the ice sheet," Richard B. Alley of Pennsylvania State University, wrote in a commentary accompanying the Science paper.
Animals retreat as Antarctic cools
3/10/02
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
US scientists say they have established that much of Antarctica is cooling.
This is at odds with earlier reports which suggested a slight recent warming on the continent.
The researchers say the cooling is causing soil invertebrates to decline by more than 10% annually.
They also found that lake productivity is falling, with organisms incorporating significantly less carbon dioxide (CO2) into organic carbon compounds.
They say their findings, published online in the science journal Nature, challenge models of climate and ecosystem change.
They write: "The average air temperature at the Earth's surface has increased by 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade during the 20th Century, and by 0.19 degrees C per decade from 1979 to 1998."
Seasonal swings
"Climate models generally predict amplified warming in polar regions, as observed in Antarctica's peninsula region over the second half of the century.
"Although previous reports suggest slight recent continental warming, our spatial analysis of Antarctic meteorological data demonstrates a net cooling on the continent between 1966 and 2000, particularly during summer and autumn."
The Dry Valleys are the largest ice-free area
Their study concentrated on the McMurdo dry valleys, the largest ice-free area on the continent. It is a cold desert, with the largest animals soil invertebrates.
Of these the most widely distributed are soil nematodes, a sort of worm.
The team, led by Dr Peter Doran of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, found that the valleys had cooled by 0.7 degrees C per decade between 1986 and 2000, with pronounced summer and autumn trends.
They say: "We believe that climate cooling has significantly impacted ecosystem properties in the valleys."
They believe the 9% fall in primary production which they recorded in one of the valley lakes could produce a system so depleted in stored organic carbon that it might act as a source of CO2.
The researchers note: "Although other studies have cited a trend of continental warming in Antarctica, the trends are sensitive to the period analysed and to the distribution of [weather] stations.
Wider impact expected
"The large-scale cooling reported here results from an approach designed to avoid over-weighting of station-dense regions (for example, the peninsula) in the evaluation of overall trends.
"In the dry valleys, the cooling trend is significantly correlated with decreased winds and increased clear-sky conditions.
There will be "a cascade of ecological consequences"
"We propose that prolonged summer cooling will diminish aquatic and soil biological assemblages throughout the valleys, and possibly in other terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems.
"Summer temperatures are the critical driver of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, and our data are the first, to our knowledge, to highlight the cascade of ecological consequences that result from the recent summer cooling."
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the Antarctic peninsula is "very vulnerable to projected climate change and its impacts".
Hard to predict
It adds: "The interior of Antarctica is less vulnerable, because the temperature changes envisaged over the next century are likely to have little impact and very few people are involved.
"However, there are considerable uncertainties about the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheets and the future behaviour of the West Antarctic ice sheet (which has a low probability of disintegration over the next century).
"Changes in either could affect sea level and southern hemisphere climates."
The Antarctic has cooled during the past 35 years, says Dr Peter Doran of the University of Illinois. Seasonally averaged surface air temperatures decreased by about 0.7C per decade, says Doran, who did his research at the American National Science Foundation's long-term ecological research site in Antarctica's Dry Valleys on MacMurdo Sound. Long-term data from weather stations across the continent shows a cooling trend. (Nature, 15 Jan 2002)
Arctic ice "thickest in 35 years" - August 23, 2003: From Svalbard to Franz Joseph Land, there was a massive series of ice flows up to five meters thick, and measured 800 miles north/south and up to 14 miles east/west. The captain of the vessel has rarely seen the ice this thick in his 35-years of polar voyages. http://www.newportthisweek.com/news/200 ... e/002.html
Russia abandons Ice Station Vostok. Mar 4, 2003. For the first time ever, Russia if forced to abandon its base at Vostok. Due to heavier than usual pack ice, supply ships have been unable to reach their usual docking berths, leaving them unable to deliver fuel and supplies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/I/hi/sci/tech/2818025.stm
Greatest Northern Hemispheric Snowcover on record.
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1372/
Northern Hemisphere snow cover third most extensive on record. http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1417/
North America snow cover second most extensive on record. http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1417/
OCTOBER TO MARCH,2003 PERIOD RANKED AMONG COLDEST IN NORTHEAST. IT WAS THE COLDEST SINCE 1940/41 IN BOSTON!!
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1383/
HIGH LATITUDE BLOCKING AND RECORD SNOWCOVER A KEY TO THIS WINTER,02/03
Winter in Big Cities of the East Ranked Among the Coldest Since 1950
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1378/
Snow whitens Southern California, including Malibu
Wed., January 30, 2002 9:00 a.m. ET
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An almost unheard of snowfall whitened the sands of Malibu, with snow also falling on several foothill communities surrounding Los Angeles as a bitterly cold Arctic storm rumbled across the state.
On Tuesday, snow dusted the foothill communities of Sierra Madre, Glendora and Calabassas, as well as such desert areas as Joshua Tree and the Antelope Valley.
As temperatures fell, wind chills as low as 10 below zero were recorded in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
Heavy snow shut down Interstate 5 through the Grapevine mountain pass that connects Los Angeles to central California on Tuesday night. The freeway was reopened in both directions early Wednesday.
Although many expressed surprise at the light coating of snow, National Weather Service meteorologist Bruce Rockwell said it wasn't that surprising.
"It's the dead of winter," he said. "This is about as unusual as a 90- or 100-degree day in August. Some areas got a dusting of snow, but there's been no appreciable accumulation except for the higher mountains."
While light winter snow isn't completely out of place in the foothills to the north and east of Los Angeles, however, longtime residents of Malibu said it had been a least a decade since that beach-front city had been dusted. A freak snowstorm in 1989 last had Malibu residents reaching for their cameras.
Throughout most of the rest of Southern California, snow levels dipped to about 1,500 feet.
In the suburban Antelope Valley, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, as much as 3 inches of snow was forecast before the storm passed. At the higher mountain elevations, forecasters expected as much as a foot of snow.
People taking mountain roads in and out of the region were advised to carry tire chains and emergency provisions. In the Grapevine area community of Frazier Park, Interstate 5 was closed to all but local residents who could show driver's licenses to prove they lived there, said California Highway Patrol Officer Douglas Kondo.
The weather service also issued a freeze warning and a frost advisory for farmers in southwestern California for Tuesday and Wednesday nights, advising that temperatures in the 20s could hit the valleys of Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties just before sunrise. Temperatures in the 30s were expected along the coasts of Orange and San Diego counties.
"People should bring tender potted plants indoors," the weather service said.
Thick ice halting sea traffic. Mar 12, 2003. A 40-kilometer (24-mile) barrier of ice in the Cabot Straight has made the po9rt at Corner Brook, Newfoundland completely inaccessible. Sompanies are having to divert their shipments to St. John's and truck them to Corner Brook.
Sub-Antarctic birds and turtles "in Perth." July 21, 2003. Dozens of sub-Antarctic seabirds and turtle hatchlings had been recovered on the coast between Perth and Bunbury, blown hundreds or thousands of kilometers from their natural habitat by the major storm system.
http://www.australianweathernews.com/ne ... 030721.STM
Rare Greenland Sharks in St. Lawrence. Baie-Comeau, Que. (CP) - Using an underwater camera, an amateur diver has recorded rare images of four Greenland sharks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The 10-foot-long sharks, which normally live in glacial Arctic waters, had wandered more than 4,000 km to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. The sharks are rarely seen by humans, given their frigid, isolated habitat.
The Greenland shark, known as the sleeper shark for its sluggish nature, is one of the few large fish found in polar waters year round.
Usually not harmful to humans, the species can reach lengths of 19 feet and can weigh up to 2,200 lbs.
Edmonton Sun, June 7, 2003 (Thanks to Charlie Worten for this info.)
Super-cold water causes massive cod kill. 10 Apr 2003. CBC News reported today that water temperatures in the Newfoundland bay where a massive cod kill occurred are the coldest in decades.
Water temperatures in Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, are as cold as -1.7 degrees C, say researchers on the research vessel Teleost. "That's about as cold as sea water in our area can get," said fisheries ecologist George Lilly.
Newfoundland and most other areas of Canada experienced one of their coldest winters in years. Smith Sound on the island's east coast had one of the few healthy populations of cod left.
The kill led to the loss of an estimated 200,000 kilograms of fish. The ones recovered had ice crystals around their organs. The future impact is yet to be felt because the fish were preparing to spawn.
Second coldest month on record at the South Pole - 23 Sep 2004 – “We missed the coldest month ever recorded here at the Pole by only six tenths of a degree - minus 89.0 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in August 1987,” says Troy Wiles, a member of the medical team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Record early snowfall in Anchorage - 26 Sep 2004 – Power lines stretch and snap as six inches of heavy wet snow blanket Anchorage, Alaska. "This is the most snow we've had on the ground this early in the season," meteorologist Dan Keirns said late Saturday afternoon. The previous record for largest early snow was 2.6 inches on Sept. 29, 1965. On average, the city gets its first snow by mid-October, according to Weather Service statistics. (By Peter Porco, Anchorage Daily News)
http://adn.com/alaska/story/5601569p-5532887c.html
Storm shuts down New Zealand capital. August 18, 2004 – “A severe storm has battered much of New Zealand, leaving Wellington all but cut off. Wind gusts of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) tore roofs from buildings and downed trees and electric lines across the lower North Island, blocking highways and railroads, and halting plane and sea ferry services. Ferries between the North and South Island were halted, while snow and debris blocked roads across the south of the North Island.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/08/ ... index.html
Record low temperatures in 18 states on August 7. If we had had record high temperatures in 18 states, it would have been plastered across the front page of almost every newspaper in the country. But have you seen anything about this in your paper? I doubt it.
“Europeans still waiting for summer” – July 17, 2004 – Sleigh rides and snowball fights in July as the month turns almost glacial. “Mulled wine instead of of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and gone, fall approaches—and Europeans are still waiting for summer.” In the United Kingdom, British Gas implemented its winter emergency contingency plan in response to a surge in demand for heat. Temperatures in Shrewsbury in northwest England plummeted to 53 degrees, the coldest ever recorded in the area for the month of July.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445280/
Heavy snow storms near the Victoria-New South Wales border leave homes without power.
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33679
Ice and snow force road closures across New South Wales. July 18, 2004. Snow has blanketed much of the south-eastern part of the state with heavy falls in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, and the Southern Highlands.
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33455
633.4 inches of snow (193 meters) at Mt. Baker, Washington. (As of April 25, 2004.) And we’re worried about global warming?
http://www.mtbaker.us/snow_report/report_fs.html
Eastern Siberian Russia: late spring snowfalls "truly" exceptional" (for the second year in a row!) - June 4, 2004:
Late-spring snows stood 12 inches deep in Aldan, eastern Siberia.
Zugspitz, Germany hit by 14 inches of June snow in three days. This was part of the unsettled weather covering much of Europe, from the Alps to Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. This included unusually heavy rain on the Italian Adriatic coast, and flooding in Austria.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/publ ... ccuweather
6/2/04 - Sonnblick, Austria, has received nearly two feet of new snow since Monday, bringing the reported total snow depth to 177 inches.
Germany's high spot, Zugspitze, observs a snow depth of 118 inches, which was freshened by about another one-half foot of snow.
Russia: 2-day long "severe winter-like storm" buries eastern Sakhalin island beneath three to four feet of snow - April 21, 2004: Snowstorms were also reported in northern Japan.
"Best winter in recent memory" for Alpine and Pyrenees ski season - April 8, 2004: Record levels of snow in Austria. "We have had the best season ever," said Wolfgang Breitfuss, tourism director of Saalbach-Hinterglemm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3600019.stm
Extreme cold in Ukraine and Crimea - April 7, 2004: Temperatures plummeted to -16 Celsius (3 F), killing off much of the regions fruit crops. Severe frosts last winter, followed by a summer drought, had already devastated thousand of hectares of Winter and Spring crops.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news ... news.shtml
The Baltic Sea is freezing over, and may become entirely covered by ice for the first time since 1948. Jan 9, 2003. The Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland are almost completely covered with ice. Some 40 ships have been trapped in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg, and ice-breakers have been sent to their rescue.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2643827.stm
Thanks to Dan Hammer for this link.
Dec 2002. Argentina has been having "an extremely cold summer, with snowstorms in late spring (never heard of!)," says Eduardo Ferreyra, President of the Argentine Foundation for a Scientific Ecology. Snow has fallen in Buenos Aires Province, says Ferreyra, and at sea level in the city of Tandil.
Earliest autumn snowfall in Munich since 1442! Sep 27, 2002. Winter came early to the Alps on Tuesday, when a bitterly cold storm dumped two feet of snow on Austria's Sonnblick mountains. Snowlines fell to 600 meters elevation in the Bregenzerwald, Austria region, six weeks earlier than last year.
Killer cold and snow in South Africa. July 22, 2002. Some areas in eastern South Africa were declared disaster zones after heavy rains and snows destroyed homes, trapped commuters, and killed at least 22 people.
More than 3,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, the hardest hit regions. The snow was more than three-feet deep in some areas.
On the eastern coast, livestock have frozen to death and two ships ran aground in heavy storms.
Killer cold and snow in Peru. July 17, 2002. Fifty-nine people, and more than 80,000 llamas, alpacas and vicunas, have died in a freak cold snap in Peru. With their food buried beneath a three-foot blanket of snow, millions more animals are at risk of starvation and pneumonia.
The killer chill, which began at the start of July, said Reuter's news service, "sent temperatures tumbling to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, a rare phenomenon even at high altitudes in the Southern Hemisphere winter."
Snowfall has increased in Siberia. Swiss, Russian and Arizona dendroclimatologists -- tree ring scientists who study climate -- say there has been a slow, gradual increase in the amount of snow in northern Siberia during the past century. (Nature, July 8, 2002)
As a result, significant numbers of trees at timberline across the subarctic from Alaska and Canada to Scandinavia and Siberia have not grown as much as expected. The greater snowfall is keeping the ground frozen longer, stunting growth by as much as 20 percent.
The area studied covers a huge area -- over 100 degrees of northern longitude, or almost a third of the way around the Earth. See http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9908a/siberiatrees.html
June 1, 2002. Snow threatens thousands of sheep and cattle in New Zealand.
With their food buried beneath 33-foot (10m) snow drifts, an estimated 25,000 sheep and 1500 cattle face starvation, said the New Zealand Herald today.
"This is just such a huge snowfall that we don't normally get at all here," said Pauline Beattie, of Patearoa Station, which has been the base of operations in the affected Paerau Valley on South Island. "We've got 10m [33 feet] drifts in country that normally these sheep would spend all winter in and be quite happy to look after themselves."
Mrs. Beattie said 2500-3000 sheep were affected on her farm. About 1000 would be fed today and about 700 were fed yesterday. About 500 were missing.
Mrs. Beattie could not estimate the cost, but said bulldozers had been hired to do clearing and helicopters had been hired to move feed earlier in the week at $1000 an hour ... in an area that normally does not require feeding.
The New Zealand air force also sent four Iroquois helicopters to the area to help distribute feed. About four days' feed was being delivered by the Iroquois today.
Farmers are still concerned about their animals in the higher country, which they have not been able to get to because of the bad weather. Even though stock can survive in snow for several weeks, the farmers are worried they may become trapped in snow drifts. "Farmers were hoping," said the Herald, "that no more snow would fall."
See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/./storydispla ... on=general
3/12/2002: Hemmed in by sea ice, hundreds of thousands of baby penguins died this Antarctic summer.
"The world's southernmost colony of Adelie penguins, at Cape Royds on Ross Island, only managed to produce about one percent of its usual tally of chicks.
"The breeding penguins had to walk up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) over sea ice to get food. Many of the parents either abandoned their eggs in order to feed themselves or did not come back with enough food to keep their chicks alive.
"Some of the adults were just snowed in. They had this metre, metre-and-a-half of ice, that just crusted over them so they died like that." ((BBC News, 12 March, 2002)
Snow threatens Siberia's big cats. 18 Feb 2002. Heavy snowfalls in the Primorski region could all but wipe out the deer and boar, that the Amur tiger and Far Eastern leopard feed on. With snow in the region measuring up to 1.5 meters deep, some 100,000 animals have been left without food. Experts predict that between 80% and 90% of the big cat's prey could die. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1827088.stm
Ice thickens in West Antarctica
Fri., January 18, 2002 9:00 a.m. ET
By the Associated Press, Randolph E. Schmid
WASHINGTON (AP) - New measurements show the ice in West Antarctica is thickening, reversing earlier estimates that the sheet was melting.
Scientists concerned about global warming had worried that higher temperatures could melt the massive ice sheet, causing a rise in sea levels worldwide.
But new flow measurements for the Ross ice streams, using special satellite-based radar, indicate that movement of some of the ice streams has slowed or halted, allowing the ice to thicken, according to a paper in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
If the thickening is not merely part of some short-term fluctuation, it represents a reversal of the long retreat of the ice, say researchers Ian Joughin of the California Institute of Technology and Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Their finding comes less than a week after a separate paper in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys - long considered a bellwether for global climate change - have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-1980s.
Air temperatures recorded continuously over a 14-year period ending in 1999 declined by about 1 degree Fahrenheit in the polar deserts and across the White Continent, that paper said.
The cooling defies a trend spanning more than 100 years in which average land surface temperatures have increased worldwide by about 1 degree Fahrenheit. The scientists said Antarctica is the only continent that is cooling. They could not say why.
In their paper, Joughin and Tulaczyk suggest the West Antarctic ice streams may be undergoing the same transition from shrinking to growing that appears to have occurred on a neighboring stream 150 years ago.
The results, they add, suggest a reduced possibility of the feared massive collapse of the ice field.
"Perhaps, after 10,000 years of retreat from the ice-age maximum, researchers turned on their instruments just in time to catch the stabilization or re-advance of the ice sheet," Richard B. Alley of Pennsylvania State University, wrote in a commentary accompanying the Science paper.
Animals retreat as Antarctic cools
3/10/02
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
US scientists say they have established that much of Antarctica is cooling.
This is at odds with earlier reports which suggested a slight recent warming on the continent.
The researchers say the cooling is causing soil invertebrates to decline by more than 10% annually.
They also found that lake productivity is falling, with organisms incorporating significantly less carbon dioxide (CO2) into organic carbon compounds.
They say their findings, published online in the science journal Nature, challenge models of climate and ecosystem change.
They write: "The average air temperature at the Earth's surface has increased by 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade during the 20th Century, and by 0.19 degrees C per decade from 1979 to 1998."
Seasonal swings
"Climate models generally predict amplified warming in polar regions, as observed in Antarctica's peninsula region over the second half of the century.
"Although previous reports suggest slight recent continental warming, our spatial analysis of Antarctic meteorological data demonstrates a net cooling on the continent between 1966 and 2000, particularly during summer and autumn."
The Dry Valleys are the largest ice-free area
Their study concentrated on the McMurdo dry valleys, the largest ice-free area on the continent. It is a cold desert, with the largest animals soil invertebrates.
Of these the most widely distributed are soil nematodes, a sort of worm.
The team, led by Dr Peter Doran of the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, found that the valleys had cooled by 0.7 degrees C per decade between 1986 and 2000, with pronounced summer and autumn trends.
They say: "We believe that climate cooling has significantly impacted ecosystem properties in the valleys."
They believe the 9% fall in primary production which they recorded in one of the valley lakes could produce a system so depleted in stored organic carbon that it might act as a source of CO2.
The researchers note: "Although other studies have cited a trend of continental warming in Antarctica, the trends are sensitive to the period analysed and to the distribution of [weather] stations.
Wider impact expected
"The large-scale cooling reported here results from an approach designed to avoid over-weighting of station-dense regions (for example, the peninsula) in the evaluation of overall trends.
"In the dry valleys, the cooling trend is significantly correlated with decreased winds and increased clear-sky conditions.
There will be "a cascade of ecological consequences"
"We propose that prolonged summer cooling will diminish aquatic and soil biological assemblages throughout the valleys, and possibly in other terrestrial Antarctic ecosystems.
"Summer temperatures are the critical driver of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, and our data are the first, to our knowledge, to highlight the cascade of ecological consequences that result from the recent summer cooling."
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says the Antarctic peninsula is "very vulnerable to projected climate change and its impacts".
Hard to predict
It adds: "The interior of Antarctica is less vulnerable, because the temperature changes envisaged over the next century are likely to have little impact and very few people are involved.
"However, there are considerable uncertainties about the mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheets and the future behaviour of the West Antarctic ice sheet (which has a low probability of disintegration over the next century).
"Changes in either could affect sea level and southern hemisphere climates."
The Antarctic has cooled during the past 35 years, says Dr Peter Doran of the University of Illinois. Seasonally averaged surface air temperatures decreased by about 0.7C per decade, says Doran, who did his research at the American National Science Foundation's long-term ecological research site in Antarctica's Dry Valleys on MacMurdo Sound. Long-term data from weather stations across the continent shows a cooling trend. (Nature, 15 Jan 2002)
Arctic ice "thickest in 35 years" - August 23, 2003: From Svalbard to Franz Joseph Land, there was a massive series of ice flows up to five meters thick, and measured 800 miles north/south and up to 14 miles east/west. The captain of the vessel has rarely seen the ice this thick in his 35-years of polar voyages. http://www.newportthisweek.com/news/200 ... e/002.html
Russia abandons Ice Station Vostok. Mar 4, 2003. For the first time ever, Russia if forced to abandon its base at Vostok. Due to heavier than usual pack ice, supply ships have been unable to reach their usual docking berths, leaving them unable to deliver fuel and supplies. http://news.bbc.co.uk/I/hi/sci/tech/2818025.stm
Greatest Northern Hemispheric Snowcover on record.
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1372/
Northern Hemisphere snow cover third most extensive on record. http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1417/
North America snow cover second most extensive on record. http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1417/
OCTOBER TO MARCH,2003 PERIOD RANKED AMONG COLDEST IN NORTHEAST. IT WAS THE COLDEST SINCE 1940/41 IN BOSTON!!
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1383/
HIGH LATITUDE BLOCKING AND RECORD SNOWCOVER A KEY TO THIS WINTER,02/03
Winter in Big Cities of the East Ranked Among the Coldest Since 1950
http://www.intellicast.com/DrDewpoint/Library/1378/
Snow whitens Southern California, including Malibu
Wed., January 30, 2002 9:00 a.m. ET
By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - An almost unheard of snowfall whitened the sands of Malibu, with snow also falling on several foothill communities surrounding Los Angeles as a bitterly cold Arctic storm rumbled across the state.
On Tuesday, snow dusted the foothill communities of Sierra Madre, Glendora and Calabassas, as well as such desert areas as Joshua Tree and the Antelope Valley.
As temperatures fell, wind chills as low as 10 below zero were recorded in some areas, according to the National Weather Service.
Heavy snow shut down Interstate 5 through the Grapevine mountain pass that connects Los Angeles to central California on Tuesday night. The freeway was reopened in both directions early Wednesday.
Although many expressed surprise at the light coating of snow, National Weather Service meteorologist Bruce Rockwell said it wasn't that surprising.
"It's the dead of winter," he said. "This is about as unusual as a 90- or 100-degree day in August. Some areas got a dusting of snow, but there's been no appreciable accumulation except for the higher mountains."
While light winter snow isn't completely out of place in the foothills to the north and east of Los Angeles, however, longtime residents of Malibu said it had been a least a decade since that beach-front city had been dusted. A freak snowstorm in 1989 last had Malibu residents reaching for their cameras.
Throughout most of the rest of Southern California, snow levels dipped to about 1,500 feet.
In the suburban Antelope Valley, 60 miles north of Los Angeles, as much as 3 inches of snow was forecast before the storm passed. At the higher mountain elevations, forecasters expected as much as a foot of snow.
People taking mountain roads in and out of the region were advised to carry tire chains and emergency provisions. In the Grapevine area community of Frazier Park, Interstate 5 was closed to all but local residents who could show driver's licenses to prove they lived there, said California Highway Patrol Officer Douglas Kondo.
The weather service also issued a freeze warning and a frost advisory for farmers in southwestern California for Tuesday and Wednesday nights, advising that temperatures in the 20s could hit the valleys of Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties just before sunrise. Temperatures in the 30s were expected along the coasts of Orange and San Diego counties.
"People should bring tender potted plants indoors," the weather service said.
Thick ice halting sea traffic. Mar 12, 2003. A 40-kilometer (24-mile) barrier of ice in the Cabot Straight has made the po9rt at Corner Brook, Newfoundland completely inaccessible. Sompanies are having to divert their shipments to St. John's and truck them to Corner Brook.
Sub-Antarctic birds and turtles "in Perth." July 21, 2003. Dozens of sub-Antarctic seabirds and turtle hatchlings had been recovered on the coast between Perth and Bunbury, blown hundreds or thousands of kilometers from their natural habitat by the major storm system.
http://www.australianweathernews.com/ne ... 030721.STM
Rare Greenland Sharks in St. Lawrence. Baie-Comeau, Que. (CP) - Using an underwater camera, an amateur diver has recorded rare images of four Greenland sharks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The 10-foot-long sharks, which normally live in glacial Arctic waters, had wandered more than 4,000 km to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. The sharks are rarely seen by humans, given their frigid, isolated habitat.
The Greenland shark, known as the sleeper shark for its sluggish nature, is one of the few large fish found in polar waters year round.
Usually not harmful to humans, the species can reach lengths of 19 feet and can weigh up to 2,200 lbs.
Edmonton Sun, June 7, 2003 (Thanks to Charlie Worten for this info.)
Super-cold water causes massive cod kill. 10 Apr 2003. CBC News reported today that water temperatures in the Newfoundland bay where a massive cod kill occurred are the coldest in decades.
Water temperatures in Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, are as cold as -1.7 degrees C, say researchers on the research vessel Teleost. "That's about as cold as sea water in our area can get," said fisheries ecologist George Lilly.
Newfoundland and most other areas of Canada experienced one of their coldest winters in years. Smith Sound on the island's east coast had one of the few healthy populations of cod left.
The kill led to the loss of an estimated 200,000 kilograms of fish. The ones recovered had ice crystals around their organs. The future impact is yet to be felt because the fish were preparing to spawn.
Second coldest month on record at the South Pole - 23 Sep 2004 – “We missed the coldest month ever recorded here at the Pole by only six tenths of a degree - minus 89.0 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in August 1987,” says Troy Wiles, a member of the medical team at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Record early snowfall in Anchorage - 26 Sep 2004 – Power lines stretch and snap as six inches of heavy wet snow blanket Anchorage, Alaska. "This is the most snow we've had on the ground this early in the season," meteorologist Dan Keirns said late Saturday afternoon. The previous record for largest early snow was 2.6 inches on Sept. 29, 1965. On average, the city gets its first snow by mid-October, according to Weather Service statistics. (By Peter Porco, Anchorage Daily News)
http://adn.com/alaska/story/5601569p-5532887c.html
Storm shuts down New Zealand capital. August 18, 2004 – “A severe storm has battered much of New Zealand, leaving Wellington all but cut off. Wind gusts of more than 100 mph (160 km/h) tore roofs from buildings and downed trees and electric lines across the lower North Island, blocking highways and railroads, and halting plane and sea ferry services. Ferries between the North and South Island were halted, while snow and debris blocked roads across the south of the North Island.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/08/ ... index.html
Record low temperatures in 18 states on August 7. If we had had record high temperatures in 18 states, it would have been plastered across the front page of almost every newspaper in the country. But have you seen anything about this in your paper? I doubt it.
“Europeans still waiting for summer” – July 17, 2004 – Sleigh rides and snowball fights in July as the month turns almost glacial. “Mulled wine instead of of wine coolers. Thermostats set on high. Spring has come and gone, fall approaches—and Europeans are still waiting for summer.” In the United Kingdom, British Gas implemented its winter emergency contingency plan in response to a surge in demand for heat. Temperatures in Shrewsbury in northwest England plummeted to 53 degrees, the coldest ever recorded in the area for the month of July.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445280/
Heavy snow storms near the Victoria-New South Wales border leave homes without power.
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33679
Ice and snow force road closures across New South Wales. July 18, 2004. Snow has blanketed much of the south-eastern part of the state with heavy falls in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, and the Southern Highlands.
http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=33455
633.4 inches of snow (193 meters) at Mt. Baker, Washington. (As of April 25, 2004.) And we’re worried about global warming?
http://www.mtbaker.us/snow_report/report_fs.html
Eastern Siberian Russia: late spring snowfalls "truly" exceptional" (for the second year in a row!) - June 4, 2004:
Late-spring snows stood 12 inches deep in Aldan, eastern Siberia.
Zugspitz, Germany hit by 14 inches of June snow in three days. This was part of the unsettled weather covering much of Europe, from the Alps to Italy and the Balkan Peninsula. This included unusually heavy rain on the Italian Adriatic coast, and flooding in Austria.
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/publ ... ccuweather
6/2/04 - Sonnblick, Austria, has received nearly two feet of new snow since Monday, bringing the reported total snow depth to 177 inches.
Germany's high spot, Zugspitze, observs a snow depth of 118 inches, which was freshened by about another one-half foot of snow.
Russia: 2-day long "severe winter-like storm" buries eastern Sakhalin island beneath three to four feet of snow - April 21, 2004: Snowstorms were also reported in northern Japan.
"Best winter in recent memory" for Alpine and Pyrenees ski season - April 8, 2004: Record levels of snow in Austria. "We have had the best season ever," said Wolfgang Breitfuss, tourism director of Saalbach-Hinterglemm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3600019.stm
Extreme cold in Ukraine and Crimea - April 7, 2004: Temperatures plummeted to -16 Celsius (3 F), killing off much of the regions fruit crops. Severe frosts last winter, followed by a summer drought, had already devastated thousand of hectares of Winter and Spring crops.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/news ... news.shtml
The Baltic Sea is freezing over, and may become entirely covered by ice for the first time since 1948. Jan 9, 2003. The Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland are almost completely covered with ice. Some 40 ships have been trapped in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg, and ice-breakers have been sent to their rescue.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2643827.stm
Thanks to Dan Hammer for this link.
Dec 2002. Argentina has been having "an extremely cold summer, with snowstorms in late spring (never heard of!)," says Eduardo Ferreyra, President of the Argentine Foundation for a Scientific Ecology. Snow has fallen in Buenos Aires Province, says Ferreyra, and at sea level in the city of Tandil.
Earliest autumn snowfall in Munich since 1442! Sep 27, 2002. Winter came early to the Alps on Tuesday, when a bitterly cold storm dumped two feet of snow on Austria's Sonnblick mountains. Snowlines fell to 600 meters elevation in the Bregenzerwald, Austria region, six weeks earlier than last year.
Killer cold and snow in South Africa. July 22, 2002. Some areas in eastern South Africa were declared disaster zones after heavy rains and snows destroyed homes, trapped commuters, and killed at least 22 people.
More than 3,000 homes were damaged or destroyed in the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces, the hardest hit regions. The snow was more than three-feet deep in some areas.
On the eastern coast, livestock have frozen to death and two ships ran aground in heavy storms.
Killer cold and snow in Peru. July 17, 2002. Fifty-nine people, and more than 80,000 llamas, alpacas and vicunas, have died in a freak cold snap in Peru. With their food buried beneath a three-foot blanket of snow, millions more animals are at risk of starvation and pneumonia.
The killer chill, which began at the start of July, said Reuter's news service, "sent temperatures tumbling to 10 degrees Fahrenheit, a rare phenomenon even at high altitudes in the Southern Hemisphere winter."
Snowfall has increased in Siberia. Swiss, Russian and Arizona dendroclimatologists -- tree ring scientists who study climate -- say there has been a slow, gradual increase in the amount of snow in northern Siberia during the past century. (Nature, July 8, 2002)
As a result, significant numbers of trees at timberline across the subarctic from Alaska and Canada to Scandinavia and Siberia have not grown as much as expected. The greater snowfall is keeping the ground frozen longer, stunting growth by as much as 20 percent.
The area studied covers a huge area -- over 100 degrees of northern longitude, or almost a third of the way around the Earth. See http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9908a/siberiatrees.html
June 1, 2002. Snow threatens thousands of sheep and cattle in New Zealand.
With their food buried beneath 33-foot (10m) snow drifts, an estimated 25,000 sheep and 1500 cattle face starvation, said the New Zealand Herald today.
"This is just such a huge snowfall that we don't normally get at all here," said Pauline Beattie, of Patearoa Station, which has been the base of operations in the affected Paerau Valley on South Island. "We've got 10m [33 feet] drifts in country that normally these sheep would spend all winter in and be quite happy to look after themselves."
Mrs. Beattie said 2500-3000 sheep were affected on her farm. About 1000 would be fed today and about 700 were fed yesterday. About 500 were missing.
Mrs. Beattie could not estimate the cost, but said bulldozers had been hired to do clearing and helicopters had been hired to move feed earlier in the week at $1000 an hour ... in an area that normally does not require feeding.
The New Zealand air force also sent four Iroquois helicopters to the area to help distribute feed. About four days' feed was being delivered by the Iroquois today.
Farmers are still concerned about their animals in the higher country, which they have not been able to get to because of the bad weather. Even though stock can survive in snow for several weeks, the farmers are worried they may become trapped in snow drifts. "Farmers were hoping," said the Herald, "that no more snow would fall."
See http://www.nzherald.co.nz/./storydispla ... on=general
3/12/2002: Hemmed in by sea ice, hundreds of thousands of baby penguins died this Antarctic summer.
"The world's southernmost colony of Adelie penguins, at Cape Royds on Ross Island, only managed to produce about one percent of its usual tally of chicks.
"The breeding penguins had to walk up to 50 kilometers (30 miles) over sea ice to get food. Many of the parents either abandoned their eggs in order to feed themselves or did not come back with enough food to keep their chicks alive.
"Some of the adults were just snowed in. They had this metre, metre-and-a-half of ice, that just crusted over them so they died like that." ((BBC News, 12 March, 2002)
Snow threatens Siberia's big cats. 18 Feb 2002. Heavy snowfalls in the Primorski region could all but wipe out the deer and boar, that the Amur tiger and Far Eastern leopard feed on. With snow in the region measuring up to 1.5 meters deep, some 100,000 animals have been left without food. Experts predict that between 80% and 90% of the big cat's prey could die. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1827088.stm
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Glaciers are growing around the world, including the United States
“Is a New Ice Age Under Way?” The growing Nisqually Glacier in Washington State points that way.
(This is from the latest issue of 21st Century Science and Technology, written by Lawrence Hecht, editor-in-chief. )
"Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!" With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North America, the Nisqually on Mount Rainier, has been growing since 1931."
"The significance of the fact, immediately grasped by any competent climatologist, is that glacial advance is an early warning sign of Northern Hemisphere chilling of the sort that can bring on an Ice Age. The last Little Ice Age continued from about 1400 to 1850. It was followed by a period of slight warming. There are a growing number of signs that we may be descending into another Little Ice Age-all the mountains of "global warming" propaganda aside."
"Geological evidence shows that in the last Ice Age, the southern boundary of the continental ice sheet, known as a terminal moraine, stretched down the center of Long Island, through New York City, across New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Southern Illinois and Missouri, then up the Plains States through Montana and Washington State. All of this real estate was buried under one to two miles of ice.
"Geologically and climatologically speaking, we are due for another such glacial advance . . . and in some places (it) may already be taking place.
"Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich. (From 1926 to 1960, some 70-95% of these glaciers were in retreat.)
"That brings us to the Nisqually glacier, up on the 14,410-foot Mount Rainier, near Tacoma, Wash.
"In 1931, fearful that the receding glacier would provide insufficient runoff for their newly completed hydroelectric facility, Tacoma City Light began careful measurements of the glacier. Since the mid-1800s, the glacier had receded about 1 kilometer.
The details are described in the September 2000 issue of Washington Geology:
" Between 1994 and 1997, the glacier thickened by 17 meters at 2,800-m altitude, indicating probable glacier advance during the first decade of the 21st century."
"That's the story from Mount Rainier. Retired geologist Sauers, who has been observing conditions in the Cascade Mountains of western Washington for a lifetime, says "I'm preparing for an Ice Age." Perhaps we all should."
Click here to see the full article:
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/a ... e_Age.html
Here's a (partial) list of the specific glaciers that are growing:
NORWAY
Ålfotbreen Glacier
Briksdalsbreen Glacier
Nigardsbreen Glacier
Hardangerjøkulen Glacier
Hansebreen Glacier
Jostefonn Glacier
Engabreen glacier (The Engabreen glacier
is the second largest glacier in Norway. It is a
part (a glacial tongue) of the Svartisen glacier,
which has steadily increased in mass since the
1960s when heavier winter precipitation set in.)
Norway's glaciers growing at record pace. The face of the Briksdal glacier, an off-shoot of the largest glacier in Norway and mainland Europe, is growing by an average 7.2 inches (18 centimeters) per day. (From the Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende.) See http://www.sepp.org/controv/afp.html
CANADA
Helm Glacier
Place Glacier
ECUADOR
Antizana 15 Alpha Glacier
SWITZERLAND
Silvretta Glacier
KIRGHIZTAN
Abramov
RUSSIA
Maali Glacier (This glacier is surging. See below)
GREENLAND
Greenland glacier advancing 7.2 miles per year! The BBC recently ran a documentary, The Big Chill, saying that we could be on the verge of an ice age. Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate within a decade, say scientists, because the Gulf Stream is being gradually cut off. The Gulf Stream keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude.
One of Greenland’s largest glaciers has already doubled its rate of advance, moving forward at the rate of 12 kilometers (7.2 miles) per year. To see a transcript of the documentary, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/20 ... rans.shtml
NEW ZEALAND
Photos show that all 48 glaciers in the Southern Alps have
grown during the past year. The growth is at the head of the
glaciers, high in the mountains, where they gained more ice
than they lost. Noticeable growth should be seen at the foot
of the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers within two to three
years.(27 May 2003)
SOUTH AMERICA
- Moreno Glacier (the largest glacier in Patagonia)
- Pio XI Glacier (the largest glacier in the southern hemisphere)
UNITED STATES
- Colorado (scroll down to see AP article)
- Washington (Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier* and Mt. Shuckson)
- California (scroll down for info)
- Montana (scroll down for info)
- Alaska (Mt. McKinley and Hubbard).
(scroll down to see article on Hubbard Glacier)
New Glacier Forming on Mount St. Helens. During the last twenty years, snow and ice have accumulated behind the lava dome at Mount St. Helens (Washington State) to depths of up to 600 feet. According to Charles Anderson Jr. and Dr. Mark Vining of the Glaciospeleological Survey (IGS), the weight of the snow is compressing the lower layers into dense, crystalline glacier ice.
http://www.glaciercaves.com/html/anewgl_1.HTM
Glaciers growing on California's Mount Shasta! Oct 12, 2003. All seven of Mount Shasta's glaciers are growing, says Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This includes three-mile-long Whitney, the state's largest. Not only are the glaciers growing, three of them have doubled in size since 1950. Meanwhile, seven smaller glaciers in California's Sierra Nevadas are smaller than they were 100 years ago.
This story, written by Usha Lee McFarling at the Los Angeles Times, should have been front page news. But no, it was published on page B1. In the Seattle Times, it was published on page 16.
But did the headlines mention growing glaciers? Not on your life. The L.A. Times shrieked "Sierra Glaciers in Rapid Retreat." In Seattle, the headline read "California Glaciers Altered by Climate."
I'll leave it up to you. Are these headlines misleading or not?
The Greenland Ice Sheet is growing thicker.
So is the Antarctic Ice Sheet. According to a report in Science (Jan 2002), new measurements show that the ice in parts of Antarctica is thickening. One week earlier, an article in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys - long considered a bellwether for global climate change - have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-1980s.
To put this in perspective, you must realize that the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheets are almost twice as big as the contiguous United States. They're almost 100 times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers put together. In other words, more than 99 percent of the world's glaciers are growing ... and all we hear about are the few that are melting.
And that's why sea levels are falling. That's where the water comes from to build glaciers; from the seas.
Antarctic glaciers surging. Masses of Antarctic ice have been moving twice as fast as usual, say researchers in a recent article in Science. Five of the six glacial tributaries that fed the Larsen Ice Shelf have entered "active surging phases." It is clear, they said, that the Boydell, Sjogren, Edgeworth, Bombardier and Drygalski glaciers are all surging. Mar 9, 2003. The Seattle Times.
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Russian glaciers surging. On September 20, 2002, a huge 22-million ton piece of the gigantic Maili Glacier broke loose and crashed down a steep gorge into the village of Kami killing more than 150 people and injuring hundreds more.
The 500-foot wall of ice had been growing for six years. The Maili Glacier is just one of several glaciers in the North Caucasus Mountains that have been EXPANDING at an alarming rate. Other towns in the region have been partially buried by these advancing walls of ice. One local scientist in southern Russia said, "we may be seeing the beginning of a new great ice age!!!" (Thanks to climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann for this info.)
Antarctic growing colder. Although the Antarctic Peninsula-a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle-has been warming, temperatures in the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica have been falling for decades. (Time, "Cracking the Ice, 3 Feb 2003)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 20.00.html
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Greenland growing colder. Studies of historical meteorological data show that temperatures in this northern polar region have been falling. Over the last 40 or 50 years there has been "statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland. Sea-surface temperatures in the Labrador Sea also fell. The studies were made by Dr. Edward Hanna, from the University of Plymouth, UK, and Dr. John Cappelen, of the Danish Meteorological Institute, and presented in the Journal of Geophysical Review Letters. BBC News. 11 March 2003. http://news.bbc.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2840137.stm
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Geologists Unexpectedly Find 100 Glaciers in Colorado (This article appeared in the Hawaii Tribune Herald on 7 Oct 2001, by Joseph B. Verrengia. AP-NY-10-04-01)
Geologists exploring Colorado's Rocky Mountain Park say they discovered more than 100 additional glaciers here in a single summer, said Verrengia.
Officials previously believed the park, which is 60 miles northwest of Denver, included 20 permanent ice and snow features, including six named glaciers. The new survey, conducted by geologist Jonathan Achuff, shows there are as many as 120 features.
"Comparisons with historical photos suggest that at least some of the glaciers are expanding," say park officials. "Subtle climate changes may be helping the formation of glaciers or at least reducing their retreat."
"Glaciers are barometers of climate change," researchers said. "The survey results here contradict global warming trends. While precipitation hasn't changed much, temperatures have been slightly cooler in the past several years."
``We're not running quite in synch with global warming here,'' park spokeswoman Judy Visty said.
Look at what's happening on Mt. Baker, in Washington State. (Mt. Baker is near Mt. Shukson, where glaciers are now growing.)
This is a photo of Jim Terrell taken on
Mt. Baker, Washington. Jim is more than six feet
tall. See the black line about six feet above his head?
That's where the snow from the winter of 1998/99
stopped melting. Above that, is snow that never
melted from the winter of 1999/2000. Why isn't
the media reporting this sort of thing?
In Espanol: http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/articulos-3/PorHielo.html
Alaska's Hubbard Glacier surging. Yakutat, Alaska. July 15, 2002. Bulldozing a gravel moraine in front of it, the Hubbard Glacier is advancing so rapidly that has nearly cut off Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay. The resulting ice and gravel dam is cutting off the supply of salt water, turning Russell Fiord into Russell Lake, endangering the small fishing village of Yakutat.
Russell "Lake" is now rising at the rate of six inches a day as freshwater from snowmelt and rainfall continues pouring in. Once the lake level rises to about 130 feet, it will begin spilling over into the nearby Situk River basin, flooding the usually tranquil stream. This would all but destroy the world-class salmon and steelhead fishing in the area, and devastate Yakutat's economy.
The Hubbard Glacier, 73 miles long and 6 miles wide at the face, is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
See http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public ... 1597m.html
For real time water level readings at Russell Lake, see
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ak/nwis/uv?si ... cy_cd=USGS
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Ice dam collapses, creating second largest glacial flood in historic times. http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public ... 1638m.html
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* The Nisqually Glacier on Washington's Mt. Rainier is growing thicker at the rate of more than 18 feet per year. With all of the added weight, scientists expect the glacier to begin advancing within this decade (Washington Geology, p. 24, Sep 2000).
Why is the glacier growing? A sign at the Park Ranger's desk said that average snowfall in the area is 650 inches per year. However, during the July 1, 2001 to Jun 30, 2002 season, snowfall measured 836 inches. This is a 26 percent increase. That's why the glacier is growing; above-average precipitation.
Satellites show overall increases in Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Around Antarctica. Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center found that sea ice seasons have lengthened by at least one day per year over an area of 2.16 million square miles (about 3/4 of the size of the continental United States). This is roughly twice as large as the area where sea ice seasons have shortened by at least one day per year.
Sea ice now covers the area for three weeks longer per year than it did 21 years ago. Annals of Glaciology, Aug 22, 2002 See also http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020 ... eaice.html
Extreme cold over South Pole reveals global warming models are wrong. Auckland (AFP) Sep 10, 2002. A discovery that it is much colder over the South Pole than believed has exposed a major flaw in the computer models used to predict global warming.
Scientists based at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have found that it is 36 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 30 degrees C) colder than computer models showed.
The findings, by Chester Gardner, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Weilin Pan, a doctoral student at Illinois, and Ray Roble of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, published their findings in the American Geophysical Union Letters. See spacedaily.com/news/020910020829.wq287cho.html
Thanks to Cory VanPelt for this link
“Is a New Ice Age Under Way?” The growing Nisqually Glacier in Washington State points that way.
(This is from the latest issue of 21st Century Science and Technology, written by Lawrence Hecht, editor-in-chief. )
"Watch out, Al Gore. The glaciers will get you!" With that appended note, my friend, retired field geologist Jack Sauers, forwarded to me a report that should have been a lead item in every newspaper in the world. It was the news that the best-measured glacier in North America, the Nisqually on Mount Rainier, has been growing since 1931."
"The significance of the fact, immediately grasped by any competent climatologist, is that glacial advance is an early warning sign of Northern Hemisphere chilling of the sort that can bring on an Ice Age. The last Little Ice Age continued from about 1400 to 1850. It was followed by a period of slight warming. There are a growing number of signs that we may be descending into another Little Ice Age-all the mountains of "global warming" propaganda aside."
"Geological evidence shows that in the last Ice Age, the southern boundary of the continental ice sheet, known as a terminal moraine, stretched down the center of Long Island, through New York City, across New Jersey and Pennsylvania to Southern Illinois and Missouri, then up the Plains States through Montana and Washington State. All of this real estate was buried under one to two miles of ice.
"Geologically and climatologically speaking, we are due for another such glacial advance . . . and in some places (it) may already be taking place.
"Since 1980, there has been an advance of more than 55% of the 625 mountain glaciers under observation by the World Glacier Monitoring group in Zurich. (From 1926 to 1960, some 70-95% of these glaciers were in retreat.)
"That brings us to the Nisqually glacier, up on the 14,410-foot Mount Rainier, near Tacoma, Wash.
"In 1931, fearful that the receding glacier would provide insufficient runoff for their newly completed hydroelectric facility, Tacoma City Light began careful measurements of the glacier. Since the mid-1800s, the glacier had receded about 1 kilometer.
The details are described in the September 2000 issue of Washington Geology:
" Between 1994 and 1997, the glacier thickened by 17 meters at 2,800-m altitude, indicating probable glacier advance during the first decade of the 21st century."
"That's the story from Mount Rainier. Retired geologist Sauers, who has been observing conditions in the Cascade Mountains of western Washington for a lifetime, says "I'm preparing for an Ice Age." Perhaps we all should."
Click here to see the full article:
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/a ... e_Age.html
Here's a (partial) list of the specific glaciers that are growing:
NORWAY
Ålfotbreen Glacier
Briksdalsbreen Glacier
Nigardsbreen Glacier
Hardangerjøkulen Glacier
Hansebreen Glacier
Jostefonn Glacier
Engabreen glacier (The Engabreen glacier
is the second largest glacier in Norway. It is a
part (a glacial tongue) of the Svartisen glacier,
which has steadily increased in mass since the
1960s when heavier winter precipitation set in.)
Norway's glaciers growing at record pace. The face of the Briksdal glacier, an off-shoot of the largest glacier in Norway and mainland Europe, is growing by an average 7.2 inches (18 centimeters) per day. (From the Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende.) See http://www.sepp.org/controv/afp.html
CANADA
Helm Glacier
Place Glacier
ECUADOR
Antizana 15 Alpha Glacier
SWITZERLAND
Silvretta Glacier
KIRGHIZTAN
Abramov
RUSSIA
Maali Glacier (This glacier is surging. See below)
GREENLAND
Greenland glacier advancing 7.2 miles per year! The BBC recently ran a documentary, The Big Chill, saying that we could be on the verge of an ice age. Britain could be heading towards an Alaskan-type climate within a decade, say scientists, because the Gulf Stream is being gradually cut off. The Gulf Stream keeps temperatures unusually high for such a northerly latitude.
One of Greenland’s largest glaciers has already doubled its rate of advance, moving forward at the rate of 12 kilometers (7.2 miles) per year. To see a transcript of the documentary, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/20 ... rans.shtml
NEW ZEALAND
Photos show that all 48 glaciers in the Southern Alps have
grown during the past year. The growth is at the head of the
glaciers, high in the mountains, where they gained more ice
than they lost. Noticeable growth should be seen at the foot
of the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers within two to three
years.(27 May 2003)
SOUTH AMERICA
- Moreno Glacier (the largest glacier in Patagonia)
- Pio XI Glacier (the largest glacier in the southern hemisphere)
UNITED STATES
- Colorado (scroll down to see AP article)
- Washington (Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier* and Mt. Shuckson)
- California (scroll down for info)
- Montana (scroll down for info)
- Alaska (Mt. McKinley and Hubbard).
(scroll down to see article on Hubbard Glacier)
New Glacier Forming on Mount St. Helens. During the last twenty years, snow and ice have accumulated behind the lava dome at Mount St. Helens (Washington State) to depths of up to 600 feet. According to Charles Anderson Jr. and Dr. Mark Vining of the Glaciospeleological Survey (IGS), the weight of the snow is compressing the lower layers into dense, crystalline glacier ice.
http://www.glaciercaves.com/html/anewgl_1.HTM
Glaciers growing on California's Mount Shasta! Oct 12, 2003. All seven of Mount Shasta's glaciers are growing, says Slawek Tulaczyk, a glaciologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This includes three-mile-long Whitney, the state's largest. Not only are the glaciers growing, three of them have doubled in size since 1950. Meanwhile, seven smaller glaciers in California's Sierra Nevadas are smaller than they were 100 years ago.
This story, written by Usha Lee McFarling at the Los Angeles Times, should have been front page news. But no, it was published on page B1. In the Seattle Times, it was published on page 16.
But did the headlines mention growing glaciers? Not on your life. The L.A. Times shrieked "Sierra Glaciers in Rapid Retreat." In Seattle, the headline read "California Glaciers Altered by Climate."
I'll leave it up to you. Are these headlines misleading or not?
The Greenland Ice Sheet is growing thicker.
So is the Antarctic Ice Sheet. According to a report in Science (Jan 2002), new measurements show that the ice in parts of Antarctica is thickening. One week earlier, an article in Nature reported that Antarctica's harsh desert valleys - long considered a bellwether for global climate change - have grown noticeably cooler since the mid-1980s.
To put this in perspective, you must realize that the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Greenland Ice Sheets are almost twice as big as the contiguous United States. They're almost 100 times bigger than all of the rest of the world's glaciers put together. In other words, more than 99 percent of the world's glaciers are growing ... and all we hear about are the few that are melting.
And that's why sea levels are falling. That's where the water comes from to build glaciers; from the seas.
Antarctic glaciers surging. Masses of Antarctic ice have been moving twice as fast as usual, say researchers in a recent article in Science. Five of the six glacial tributaries that fed the Larsen Ice Shelf have entered "active surging phases." It is clear, they said, that the Boydell, Sjogren, Edgeworth, Bombardier and Drygalski glaciers are all surging. Mar 9, 2003. The Seattle Times.
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Russian glaciers surging. On September 20, 2002, a huge 22-million ton piece of the gigantic Maili Glacier broke loose and crashed down a steep gorge into the village of Kami killing more than 150 people and injuring hundreds more.
The 500-foot wall of ice had been growing for six years. The Maili Glacier is just one of several glaciers in the North Caucasus Mountains that have been EXPANDING at an alarming rate. Other towns in the region have been partially buried by these advancing walls of ice. One local scientist in southern Russia said, "we may be seeing the beginning of a new great ice age!!!" (Thanks to climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann for this info.)
Antarctic growing colder. Although the Antarctic Peninsula-a thin sliver of land that juts above the Antarctic Circle-has been warming, temperatures in the vast empty spaces of East Antarctica have been falling for decades. (Time, "Cracking the Ice, 3 Feb 2003)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 20.00.html
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Greenland growing colder. Studies of historical meteorological data show that temperatures in this northern polar region have been falling. Over the last 40 or 50 years there has been "statistically significant cooling, particularly in south-western coastal Greenland. Sea-surface temperatures in the Labrador Sea also fell. The studies were made by Dr. Edward Hanna, from the University of Plymouth, UK, and Dr. John Cappelen, of the Danish Meteorological Institute, and presented in the Journal of Geophysical Review Letters. BBC News. 11 March 2003. http://news.bbc.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2840137.stm
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Geologists Unexpectedly Find 100 Glaciers in Colorado (This article appeared in the Hawaii Tribune Herald on 7 Oct 2001, by Joseph B. Verrengia. AP-NY-10-04-01)
Geologists exploring Colorado's Rocky Mountain Park say they discovered more than 100 additional glaciers here in a single summer, said Verrengia.
Officials previously believed the park, which is 60 miles northwest of Denver, included 20 permanent ice and snow features, including six named glaciers. The new survey, conducted by geologist Jonathan Achuff, shows there are as many as 120 features.
"Comparisons with historical photos suggest that at least some of the glaciers are expanding," say park officials. "Subtle climate changes may be helping the formation of glaciers or at least reducing their retreat."
"Glaciers are barometers of climate change," researchers said. "The survey results here contradict global warming trends. While precipitation hasn't changed much, temperatures have been slightly cooler in the past several years."
``We're not running quite in synch with global warming here,'' park spokeswoman Judy Visty said.
Look at what's happening on Mt. Baker, in Washington State. (Mt. Baker is near Mt. Shukson, where glaciers are now growing.)
This is a photo of Jim Terrell taken on
Mt. Baker, Washington. Jim is more than six feet
tall. See the black line about six feet above his head?
That's where the snow from the winter of 1998/99
stopped melting. Above that, is snow that never
melted from the winter of 1999/2000. Why isn't
the media reporting this sort of thing?
In Espanol: http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/articulos-3/PorHielo.html
Alaska's Hubbard Glacier surging. Yakutat, Alaska. July 15, 2002. Bulldozing a gravel moraine in front of it, the Hubbard Glacier is advancing so rapidly that has nearly cut off Russell Fiord from Disenchantment Bay. The resulting ice and gravel dam is cutting off the supply of salt water, turning Russell Fiord into Russell Lake, endangering the small fishing village of Yakutat.
Russell "Lake" is now rising at the rate of six inches a day as freshwater from snowmelt and rainfall continues pouring in. Once the lake level rises to about 130 feet, it will begin spilling over into the nearby Situk River basin, flooding the usually tranquil stream. This would all but destroy the world-class salmon and steelhead fishing in the area, and devastate Yakutat's economy.
The Hubbard Glacier, 73 miles long and 6 miles wide at the face, is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
See http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public ... 1597m.html
For real time water level readings at Russell Lake, see
http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ak/nwis/uv?si ... cy_cd=USGS
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Ice dam collapses, creating second largest glacial flood in historic times. http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public ... 1638m.html
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* The Nisqually Glacier on Washington's Mt. Rainier is growing thicker at the rate of more than 18 feet per year. With all of the added weight, scientists expect the glacier to begin advancing within this decade (Washington Geology, p. 24, Sep 2000).
Why is the glacier growing? A sign at the Park Ranger's desk said that average snowfall in the area is 650 inches per year. However, during the July 1, 2001 to Jun 30, 2002 season, snowfall measured 836 inches. This is a 26 percent increase. That's why the glacier is growing; above-average precipitation.
Satellites show overall increases in Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Around Antarctica. Claire Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center found that sea ice seasons have lengthened by at least one day per year over an area of 2.16 million square miles (about 3/4 of the size of the continental United States). This is roughly twice as large as the area where sea ice seasons have shortened by at least one day per year.
Sea ice now covers the area for three weeks longer per year than it did 21 years ago. Annals of Glaciology, Aug 22, 2002 See also http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020 ... eaice.html
Extreme cold over South Pole reveals global warming models are wrong. Auckland (AFP) Sep 10, 2002. A discovery that it is much colder over the South Pole than believed has exposed a major flaw in the computer models used to predict global warming.
Scientists based at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have found that it is 36 to 54 degrees Fahrenheit (20 to 30 degrees C) colder than computer models showed.
The findings, by Chester Gardner, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois, Weilin Pan, a doctoral student at Illinois, and Ray Roble of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, published their findings in the American Geophysical Union Letters. See spacedaily.com/news/020910020829.wq287cho.html
Thanks to Cory VanPelt for this link
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=570734
kenl,
so what are these scientist seeing? Are they in denial because from what I've read in all your post is that the earth is cooling with no doubt?
How can it be warming as the ice sheets and glaciers are growing?
kenl,
so what are these scientist seeing? Are they in denial because from what I've read in all your post is that the earth is cooling with no doubt?
How can it be warming as the ice sheets and glaciers are growing?
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Redder wrote:http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=570734
kenl,
so what are these scientist seeing? Are they in denial because from what I've read in all your post is that the earth is cooling with no doubt?
How can it be warming as the ice sheets and glaciers are growing?
The Scientific community can't get government money for a normal or cooling planet. So, they have to make up a crises like.... the planet is warming or is "sick" and it's man's fault and only man can fix it (or only Scientist can fix it). That is how they get government money and how they mislead world opinion on the subject.
This planet is going through changes. But these are normal cyclicle changes. Whether man were here or not, the planet would still be going through these changes or cycles.
These facts and articles will never be brought into mainstream thinking because it isn't a crises and not news worthy to say that our planet is cooling or normal.
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Now it was noted on a "blurb" on TWC that with global warming, the North Atlantic Converyor belt of current could slow, keeping the colder water in the North, and blocking the warm gulfstream from completing the cycle.
The conveyor gets disturbed when the ice melts, reducing the salinity of the Atlantic...which keeps the warm not-as-salty gulf water from "floating" above the heavier arctic cold water, causing a blockage.
This would result in rising SSTs down in the tropics, and chilling in the arctic, allowing advancement of the ice, there.
Sounds like a natural cycle of balance.
The conveyor gets disturbed when the ice melts, reducing the salinity of the Atlantic...which keeps the warm not-as-salty gulf water from "floating" above the heavier arctic cold water, causing a blockage.
This would result in rising SSTs down in the tropics, and chilling in the arctic, allowing advancement of the ice, there.
Sounds like a natural cycle of balance.
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