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Greenland Glaciers Melting Much Faster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-news-for-skiing dept.

grqb writes "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory says that satellite observations indicate that Greenland's glaciers have been dumping ice into the Atlantic Ocean at a rate that's doubled over the past five years. Greenland Ice Sheet's annual loss has risen from 21.6 cubic miles in 1996 to 36 cubic miles in 2005 and it now contributes about 0.5 millimeters out of 3 millimeters to global sea level increases. One theory as to why this is happening is that the meltwater, caused by increasing temperatures in Greenland, serves as a lubricant for the moving ice, hastening its push to the sea. Another study has estimated that the warming rate in Greenland was 2.2 times faster than the global norm -- which is in line with U.N. climate models."

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  1. Re:woo by jcr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cue libertarian anti-environmentalist ranting and argumentative stupidity.

    Gee, only three posts before there's some knee-jerker looking to bash people he doesn't like, waving his straw man around.

    -jcr

    --
    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  2. Re:woo by r_jensen11 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You insensitive clod, as we all know, the earth has only existed for approximately 6000 years. We all know that the all mighty God set those dinosaur bones into the earth to make them appear to be 150 million years old, and that the sun revolves around the earth. Heliocentrists be damned!

  3. Re:There will be plenty of posts talking about... by John+Jorsett · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    If you want to do something postive for the planet, don't have children, or only have one. That will have a more far-reaching impact than anything else.

    That's the approach Europe is taking; the birthrate of EU natives is far below replacement, while recent Muslim immigrants maintain high birth rates. The natives are seeing their numbers halved every 40 years or so, and the EU will be predominantly Muslim in about 20 years as the natives die off, are out-reproduced, or flee to other nations(as many Danes are presently doing). Hard to know what the consequences of that will be, but based on recent events, including rioting, killings of infidels and jews, calls to substitute Sharia law for Western Democratic legal traditions, etc., I'm guessing that they overall won't be "something positive for the planet".

  4. Re:100,000 Year Cycles Are A Given by cruachan · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "Thus I postulate that our political entities of the U.N. and individual country's governments of the world are NOT the ones to be issuing the demands on people for change"

    Ah right, so what we're dealing with here is not Global Warming, but the New World Order and a surfeit of Black Helicopters