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Greenland's Glaciers Develop Stretch Marks As They Accelerate
New submitter dywolf writes: NASA-run Operation IceBridge has been monitoring and mapping ice sheets for the past eight years. They develop these maps in 3D using laser equipped aircraft to measure ice thickness. As glaciers reach the coast, they begin to accelerate, which causes crevasses to appear, which are essentially stretchmarks in the glacial strata. While a natural part of glaciers as they travel to sea, the glaciers of Greenland have increased in speed by 30% in the past decade. Jakobshavn Isbrae is Greenland's fastest glacier, and is now moving four times faster than it did 20 years ago.
I am sorry that you feel left out. Guess what, this is what it means when the science is settled. It means that people stop caring about your untenable position. The world moves on and we are now looking at the effects of global warming, knowing that it occurs and that we do not know where it will stop. Glaciers are retreating, North Pole is shrinking, and Western Antartica is melting.
In contrast with you, Big Oil got the picture, and quite a few investigations are underway to figure out where the oil is when (not if, when) parts of the North Pole become accessible year around. I'm sure if Big Oil would listens to you they would save the 100s of millions they invest in this, but guess what, they follow the science, not the self-proclaimed sceptics that haven't been able to field a single climate model that explains how anthropogenic CO2 increase will NOT lead to climate change.
That's the huge one. If forced to bet, I would be on the side that albedo or some other factor will alter to maintain very near the same temperature at the same pressures given the energy input. There appears to be an equilibrium point that any sufficiently complex atmosphere strives to maintain. For example, Venus and its clouds. I really expect focusing on the greenhouse/temperature effects of CO2 to end up a huge folly that puts egg on the face of the scientific effort as a whole. There are many other possible effects that could have been chosen instead. I hope I am being too skeptical and the climate researchers pushing this stuff really know what they are doing.